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Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI
Faisal Hoque
This book provides readers with the road maps they need to tackle the most important questions of our generation.
-It offers a unique perspective that emerges at the intersection of philosophy, humanity, business, and technology, providing powerful and practical frameworks to guide readers in understanding and utilizing AI.
-The OPEN framework offers a guide to unlocking the potential of AI, while the CARE framework focuses on protecting against its dangers.
-Structured approaches are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, businesses, and government agencies, offering comprehensive strategies for navigating the evolving AI landscape.
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Radical Doubt: Turning Uncertainty into Surefire Success
Bidhan L Parmar
Radical Doubt helps readers transform uncertainty from something paralyzing into something powerful. Rather than offering quick fixes or rigid frameworks, the book provides a practical, research-backed approach to navigating the moments in life and leadership when no option feels clearly right. Through relatable stories, cutting-edge social science, and tools rooted in real-world decision-making, Dr. Bidhan Parmar teaches readers how to slow down, reflect, and move forward with clarity—even when stakes are high and answers are elusive. It’s not about eliminating doubt, but learning how to work with it—so you can make better, wiser choices in your personal life, career, and relationships. Whether you're deciding how to handle a toxic high performer at work, whether to leave a job for something uncertain, how to speak up when your values are at odds with your team’s, or how to manage competing commitments in your personal life—Radical Doubt helps you choose with integrity. It equips you
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Redesigning Thinking: How Service Design is Solving Our 21st Century Challenges
Clive Grinyer
This book discusses service design – the holistic process of managing all the points in a customer’s journey, from the initial introduction down to the last customer interaction, with the purpose of designing each interaction and experience in a way that is user-friendly and relevant to the customer. It argues that design is a way to think more humanely, to create better business and navigate through complex systems to achieve successful outcomes. Sharing inspirational stories and examples of the power of design from around the world, the author explores how service design methods combine data and research to understand how context and creativity can be used as a problem-solving tool to engineer, reframe, and deliver effective solutions and help organizations succeed. This book will challenge you to change how you think. It will help you make informed decisions and craft products and services designed to create solutions for the people who use them.
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Data Impact
--- Ritavan
Data Impact by Ritavan is helping legacy business leaders cut through AI hype and misguided digital trends by providing a clear, actionable path to true data-driven value creation. Rather than chasing buzzwords, the book emphasises timeless fundamentals and first-principle thinking, helping businesses reinvigorate their unique advantages.
Guided by the robust SLASOG Framework (Save, Leverage, Align, Simplify, Optimise, Grow), readers are equipped with a practical toolkit to make impactful decisions. This framework is the result of a decade of real-world experience and a relentless focus on data-driven impact, grounded in varied case studies and worksheets. Ritavan’s refreshingly straightforward, no-nonsense approach cuts through digital transformation myths, offering invaluable insights that help legacy businesses unlock hidden opportunities in an era of rapid technological upheaval.
This book is a galvanising call to action, empowering business owners, executives and entrepreneurs