Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC.

A visionary, deeply humanistic guide to leading in the age of AI—equal parts practical roadmap and philosophical provocation.

In More Human, the authors challenge the prevailing narrative that AI will strip leadership of its humanity. Instead, they offer a compelling counterpoint: that AI, when used with intention and integrity, can actually make us more human—not less. This is not a book about algorithms or automation. It’s about awareness, wisdom, and compassion—the three pillars of what they call the “AI-Augmented Leader”.

Drawing on interviews with over 100 global executives, extensive research, and real-world case studies, the authors argue that AI is not a threat to human leadership—it’s a tool that can amplify our best qualities. But only if we lead with clarity of mind and heart.

The book is structured around three core leadership capacities:
- Awareness (context vs. content)
- Wisdom (questions vs. answers)
- Compassion (heart vs. algorithm)

Each section explores how AI can support—not replace—these traits, offering practical mindsets and exercises to cultivate them.

- The tone occasionally veers into the aspirational, with less attention to the structural and ethical risks of AI in less ideal contexts.

- Readers looking for technical implementation strategies may find the book more philosophical than procedural.

More Human is a timely, necessary book that reframes the AI conversation from fear to possibility. It doesn’t offer easy answers—but it does offer a compass. For leaders willing to do the inner work, this book is both a guide and a call to action: to lead not in spite of AI, but because of it—and to do so with wisdom, awareness, and heart.

The book was able to thoroughly explain how leaders today including those who have been leading for decades understand the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing the way they lead.

I really like the chapter about compassion because it discusses the importance of not losing our humanity given how easy it is nowadays to get the advice we need from AI tools.

Thanks to HBR Press team and NetGalley for the review copy in exchange for my honest take on this book.

I am reading a lot of books about AI and leadership so please take that as the context. This book felt to me more like a new leader leadership primer with the opportunities of AI included. So perhaps suited to people at the start of their leadership career. Thank you to the authors. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.