

Ten books for those who want to think beyond AI this Christmas.
For a few years now, I've been sending you book recommendations before the summer and Christmas holidays, a chance to clear your head and discover fresh perspectives. In previous editions, Summer Reading 2025: Books on AI, Unpredictability and Leadership and Books to Pause and Reflect On , the focus was largely on AI, geopolitics and personal development. Those pieces are still available on the BrightHeads website ; most of those titles remain well worth reading this wint
Dec 17


After the AI Hype Comes the Real Revolution
Last January I wrote about Laloux and what AI does to our view of people in organisations. In April I looked at the Wild West of LLM use, where employees experiment while company policy lags behind. This time it is less about tools and more about the bet you are placing on the kind of AI future your organisation is heading towards. Gillian Tett makes an important point in the Financial Times . Current Big Tech valuations rest on a seductively simple idea: today’s large lan
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