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title: "CEO’s tech agenda: 10 books CEOs are reading"
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Are you and your leadership team looking to know they key technologies to adopt and their implications? Check out this top reading list.

 

*[**The Age of AI: And Our Human Future**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#age-of-ai)* by Daniel Huttenlocher, Henry A. Kissinger, and Eric Schmidt  
Recommended by Ginni Rometty, Former chair and CEO, IBM; cochair, OneTen

[***The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment***](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#earned-life) by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter  
Recommended by Marc Rosen, CEO, JCPenney

[***Chup: Breaking the Silence about India’s Women***](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#chup) by Deepa Narayan  
Recommended by Zubaida Bai, President and CEO, Grameen Foundation

*[**Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#power-and-progress)* by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  
Recommended by Mark Suzman, CEO and board member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

*[**The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#coming-wave)* by Mustafa Suleyman (with Michael Bhaskar)  
Recommended by Reid Hoffman, Cofounder, LinkedIn; partner, Greylock

*[**The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#antisocial-network)* by Ben Mezrich  
Recommended by Brian Doubles, President and CEO, Synchrony

*[**Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#burn-rate)* by Andy Dunn  
Recommended by Ariela Safira, Founder and CEO, Real

*[**Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#factfulness)* by Hans Rosling (with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund)  
Recommended by Hassan El-Houry, Group CEO, National Aviation Services

*[**Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#human-work)* by Jamie Merisotis  
Recommended by Alisa Miller, Cofounder and CEO, Pluralytics

*[**The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the Future**](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/summer-reading-2023#solutionists)* by Solitaire Townsend  
Recommended by Mads Nipper, President and CEO, Ørsted

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