Results
Winner
The Bias Advantage: How Unconventional Leaders Gain Power in an AI-Drivan World
Liat Ben-Zur
This book offers clear, actionable strategies teaching high performers like you who are stalled by legacy power structures how to do the following: decode the hidden architecture of power and command your narrative, leverage AI as a force multiplier without sacrificing your crucial human judgment, reposition yourself at the center of the new power structure, and transform difference into a durable, competitive advantage.
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Innovation Ecosystems: A Dynamic Blueprint for Organizational Success and Engagement
Ilene Fischer
Innovation Ecosystems helps leaders stop reacting to change and start using it as a catalyst for growth. Drawing on decades of experience with Fortune 500 companies and innovative organizations, Ilene Fischer provides a practical systems-thinking framework that transforms how businesses respond to disruption. Readers will learn how to build collaborative, agile organizations where innovation becomes part of everyday culture, employees are empowered to drive change, and teams align around a shared purpose. By connecting people, culture, strategy, and technology, the book helps organizations navigate uncertainty, accelerate growth, and improve transformation success. The result is a more resilient, adaptive organization equipped to thrive in today's fast-changing world.
Winner
Change Fluency: 9 Principles to Navigate Uncertainty and Drive Innovation
Jay Kiew
Part parable, part playbook, Change Fluency equips managers, executives, and leaders to discover what’s possible, design the future, and differentiate from the standard when everything feels the same. Complete with practical exercises and a companion AI coach, this isn’t just another change management book. It’s your guide to making innovation work for you. Drawing from over $2 billion in transformation impact from more than four hundred organizations, Kiew uses a Change Fluency model to show how the most successful leaders don’t just manage change, they become fluent in it. Just as you master a new language, you can use Change Fluency to translate uncertainty from challenge into opportunity.
Finalist
The Inside Job: The Intrapreneur's Toolkit to Mastermind Meaningful Change and Innovation
Ed Essey
Inspired by the narrative style of a heist story, The Inside Job combines practical advice and engaging storytelling from a mastermind intrapreneur. It shows you the essential skills you need to create change. Filled with examples from intrapreneurs who have been coached by Essey himself, The Inside Job uses real-world cases to illustrate concepts. Each chapter provides strategies, tools, and moves that you can immediately apply to foster innovation within your organization. Hand-drawn images add a personal and visual touch. Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish.
Finalist
The Tao of Leadership: Harmonizing Technological Innovation with Human Creativity
Jack Myers
Readers of The Tao of Leadership gain a navigational compass for becoming effective leaders built on 3,000-year-old Taoist principles. With accelerating technology overwhelming traditional structures, the book offers a practical Blueprint for Leadership in the AI Era, focused on embracing AI without becoming subservient to it and pursuing innovation without losing empathy, ethics, or purpose. The Tao of Leadership is grounded in the Taoist principles of harmony, flexibility, balance, simplicity, and integrity, translating them into the FusionFlow Process, a tutorial for breaking down organizational silos, accelerating ideas into action, and building cultures of continuous learning. Readers who are navigating the role and influence of AI in their own lives, their organizations, and in civilization will learn that leadership in the AI age is not about mastering machines. It is about understanding how to embrace change and remain grounded in human judgment, empathy, purpose, and integrity
Finalist
INNOVATOR: 10 simple steps to innovate with speed, scale and confidence
Tom Pullen
Innovation has the power to solve the world’s most important problems. INNOVATOR helps more people do exactly that by giving them the confidence and practical skills to innovate successfully. Its 10-step INNOVATOR Way® makes innovation accessible beyond visionaries and specialists, helping leaders and team members identify genuine customer needs, develop stronger ideas, test them quickly, reduce wasted time and resources, and turn the best solutions into reality. The book is deliberately action-oriented, equipping readers with practical tools, power questions and action steps they can apply immediately to real-life projects. The methodology at the heart of the book is already trusted by business leaders and managers in 40+ countries, including at leading companies such as Toyota, LVMH, Rexel and Danone. INNOVATOR’s ultimate aim is simple: help organizations grow by enabling more people to create products, services and solutions that truly improve people's lives.