The Fourth Industrial Revolution & 100 Years of AI (1950–2050)
A useful reference for leaders who want to place today’s AI decisions in a longer technological context.
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21Books on the reading list17Reviewed and rated4Upcoming selections
JANUARY–DECEMBER 2026
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Explore the books already reviewed and rated by Abdollah Dehnashi, alongside the upcoming reading shelf. Completed reviews include three practical actions at work and three in everyday life. Planned selections remain unrated until they have been read.
Matching books: 21
A Promised Land
A reflective account of leadership that explores the distance between a compelling ambition and the compromises required to turn it into action.
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Change with Confidence
A practical companion for the questions that appear when a change programme meets real organizational life.
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Fish! Tales
A people-focused reminder that the quality of work is shaped by the everyday experience of doing it.
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1929
A compelling financial history that makes the human forces behind confidence, speculation, and ignored warnings difficult to dismiss.
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The Alignment Problem
An important challenge to the assumption that a system doing well on a metric is doing what people actually need.
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Peril
A reported account of political power under pressure that raises important questions about institutional responsibility, reliable information, and continuity.
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A wide-angle examination of human cooperation that invites leaders to question the assumptions inside their organizations.
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A timely examination of information, power, and the responsibilities that come with increasingly capable AI.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
A demanding and valuable examination of how confidence, intuition, and the framing of a question influence what we decide.
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Dare to Lead
A leadership perspective on the courage required to build trust and have difficult conversations.
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Team of Rivals
A substantial study of leadership through disagreement, showing why a strong team needs more than people who already share the leader’s view.
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A finance perspective on behaviour, uncertainty, and the decisions that numbers alone cannot explain.
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Why We Sleep
An engaging invitation to take sleep seriously and reconsider working habits that leave too little room for rest.
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The Intelligent Investor
A finance classic that brings patience, evidence, and downside awareness to the reading list.
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Educated
A powerful memoir about learning, identity, and the cost of developing a voice that does not fit the expectations around you.
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Co-Intelligence
A return to practical AI: how people can work with capable tools while keeping judgment and responsibility.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
October’s planned reading explores Pinker’s argument about long-term changes in violence and the forces that may help explain them.
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The Gene
On the November shelf: a history of genetics that connects scientific discovery with family, identity, and the responsibilities that come with new knowledge.
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Homo Deus
A second November selection, examining Harari’s questions about technology, human ambition, and possible futures.
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Principles
December’s planned reading turns to the principles Ray Dalio developed for decisions, learning, relationships, and organizational life.
Explore this selectionReviews for January to September were prepared retrospectively for this archive. October to December shows planned reading, without ratings or completed reviews. Month labels organize the reading series; they are not original publication dates.