Books - BEENA AMMANATH

Essential Reading For Executives

Zero Latency Leadership

Driving equity, trust, and sustainability with emerging tech

Level up your leadership skills to engage emerging technology empowered by the principles of sustainability, equity, and trust. Build your technical literacy and decision-making framework while overcoming any anxieties about the proliferation of new technologies.

How do you keep up with the rapid advancements of technology while leading an organization or business? What frameworks are available to decide what is relevant and what isn’t quite ready for launch for your company? How do you make the right decisions in the now that will honor the past and respect the future? What do trust, sustainability, and equity have to do with technology?

Beena Ammanath uses her experience as a global thought leader to simplify complex topics and set a context for informed and mindful decision-making about technology. Zero Latency Leadership establishes the skills and mindset necessary to make wise and timely decisions about your technology footprint including:

The historical perspective and what it can teach us
Practical examples of how emerging innovations can be used in business
Considerations for building strong leadership practices when approaching technology
How to build technological literacy
Which leadership skills to sharpen to get better and better at managing technology
Keeping your eyes on the horizon of emerging technology

Beena’s approach empowers readers to understand where they stand and where they want to go with their leadership in relation to technology.

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Trustworthy AI

A business guide for navigating Trust and Ethics in AI

Businesses today are rapidly scaling AI to gain powerful new capabilities and to improve how they operate. Humans and machines are increasingly working together. And this trend exposes businesses to heightened risk of AI behaving in ways that are unethical. Just like their human counterparts in the workforce, AI systems are expected to adhere to social norms and ethics and to make fair decisions in ways that are consistent, transparent, explainable, and unbiased. Of course, figuring out what is ethical and socially acceptable isn’t always easy – even for human workers.

Trustworthy AI offers readers a pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence. The book presents a straightforward and structured way to think about AI ethics and offers practical guidelines for organizations developing or using AI solutions.

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Businesses today are rapidly scaling AI to gain powerful new capabilities and to improve how they operate. Humans and machines are increasingly working together. And this trend exposes businesses to heightened risk of AI behaving in ways that are unethical. Just like their human counterparts in the workforce, AI systems are expected to adhere to social norms and ethics and to make fair decisions in ways that are consistent, transparent, explainable, and unbiased. Of course, figuring out what is ethical and socially acceptable isn’t always easy – even for human workers. Trustworthy AI offers readers a pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence. The book presents a straightforward and structured way to think about AI ethics and offers practical guidelines for organizations developing or using AI solutions.

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HBR's: The Year in Tech 2023

The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)

A year of HBR’s essential thinking on tech—all in one place.

Easy-to-use AI tools, contactless commerce, crypto for business, the mature metaverse—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption? The Year in Tech 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today’s turbulent business environment.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?

Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company’s future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR’s smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

You can’t afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.