Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders: A hands-on guide to designing and scaling sustainable IT strategies for the digital age , Second Edition ($39.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
While the climate crisis poses a threat to planetary health, digital transformation continues to reshape our societies. The challenge for technology leaders is no longer understanding why sustainability matters but knowing how to take decisive, responsible action. This book gives you the clarity, confidence, and tools to drive meaningful change. Updated with the latest trends, case studies, and insights, including responsible and sustainable AI lifecycle governance, it walks you through every stage of developing and implementing a sustainable IT strategy. The book is structured in three parts. Part 1 explores the “why,” grounding you in the reality of the urgent climate crisis we face today, how we arrived here, the planetary boundaries we must restore, and the broader impact of IT on society. Part 2 covers the “what,” outlining the practical actions you can take to drive meaningful returns on sustainable investments and build a greener future. Part 3 focuses on the “how,” establishing baselines, setting direction, and applying real-world case studies to help you translate intent to impactful global outcomes. Whether you’re building a sustainability strategy from the ground up or enhancing existing initiatives, this book prepares you to lead the way with confidence and deliver outcomes that matter.
AI Networking Cookbook: Practical recipes for AI-assisted network automation and development ($43.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Transform your approach to network automation with the power of AI LLM assistants guided by hands-on recipes for building custom automation solutions quickly using artificial intelligence. You’ll learn tools and techniques such as Vibe coding for conversational development, OpenAI API scripts, prompt engineering for better outputs, local LLM fine-tuning, combining models with LangChain, and Streamlit-based frontends development. The book progresses from simple Python scripts to advanced AI-assisted automation techniques, including multi-vendor API integration, showing you how AI can enhance network configuration, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting. Each recipe presents realistic mock data, complete code examples, and step-by-step guidance, creating a safe environment for experimentation while building a solid foundation for future production use. Whether you want to automate routine configuration, implement AI-driven troubleshooting, or build compliance monitoring systems, this cookbook helps you connect your networking expertise with the capabilities of modern AI.
Autonomous: Why the Fittest Businesses Embrace AI-First Strategies and Digital Labor ($28.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
A compelling roadmap to building an autonomous business, best positioned to win, using digital labor powered by Agentic and physical AI. An autonomous business is designed to be AI-first in its strategies and operations to maximize value and minimize time to value, and when it is done right it will unlock unprecedented speed, scale and shared success. But getting from one-off AI implementations – where most companies are at today – to autonomy will be neither easy nor obvious. Business leaders will need to challenge all the conventions, standard operating procedures and orthodoxies underpinning businesses designed by humans for humans – which is to say just about all of them! They will need to build digital labor to non-linearly scale the health, conditioning and talent of their teams, business and ecosystem, enabling 24x7x365 continuity and responsiveness, removing blockages and waste that trap or reduce value. They will need to manage the relationships between the two types of intelligent resources, digital and human. They will need to design for AI control and teach human leaders to “let go of the steering wheel”. The goal of Autonomous is to further expand the Boundless design principles that have guided the fastest growing companies in the world, and to ready business leaders, strategists and designers for success in the AI economy.
Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach ($41.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Decades of software testing experience condensed into the most important lessons learned. The world’s leading software testing experts lend you their wisdom and years of experience to help you avoid the most common mistakes in testing software. Each lesson is an assertion related to software testing, followed by an explanation or example that shows you the how, when, and why of the testing lesson. More than just tips, tricks, and pitfalls to avoid, Lessons Learned in Software Testing speeds you through the critical testing phase of the software development project without the extensive trial and error it normally takes to do so. The ultimate resource for software testers and developers at every level of expertise, this guidebook features: Over 200 lessons gleaned from over 30 years of combined testing experience. Tips, tricks, and common pitfalls to avoid by simply reading the book rather than finding out the hard way. Lessons for all key topic areas, including test design, test management, testing strategies, and bug reporting. Explanations and examples of each testing trouble spot help illustrate each lesson’s assertion. Offer Expires 3/3/2026.
The BOLD Leader: Decide What Matters and Deliver What Counts ($32.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Bold leadership doesn’t happen by chance, it happens by choice. Boldness isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build. The BOLD Leader is the neuroscience-based leadership guide for executives, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders ready to create high-performance momentum and the results that matter most. Grounded in real-world tools and the signature D90 Method, this book helps you improve decision-making, lead under pressure, and activate bold, strategic leadership that fuels both personal growth and sustainable success. Bestselling author and Bold Industries Group founder Leigh Burgess delivers a transformative approach informed by neuroscience, leadership psychology, and decades of lived experience. Using the BOLD Framework-Believe, Own, Learn, Design-and the D90 Method, you’ll adopt a bold mindset and strategy that drives real, measurable change for yourself and your teams. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Use fear as a signal, not a stop sign, to lead with clarity under pressure. Navigate high-stakes conversations with trust and presence. Make confident, aligned decisions without overthinking. Accelerate your impact with tools to expand your capacity and sharpen your edge. Create lasting momentum in just 90 days using the D90 Method. The BOLD Leader gives you the mindset, structure, and tools to meet the moment and lead boldly, fueled by intention, not reaction. This is a system built for today’s complexities and tomorrow’s unknowns. Your next level is calling. Being bold isn’t a one-time act-it’s a rhythm, a standard, and now, your leadership advantage. Offer Expires 3/3/2026.
SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence ($28.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Forward-thinking exploration of the dawn of humanity’s new age and the imminent technology-enabled transformation on society, business, and beyond. In SUPERSHIFTS, leading behavioral scientist Dr. Ja-Nae Duane and world-renowned entrepreneur and futurist Steve Fisher deliver an incisive overview of how we are at the end of one 200-year arc and embarking on another. With this new age of intelligence, Duane and Fisher highlight the various catalysts for change currently affecting individuals, businesses, and society as a whole. They also provide a model for transformation that expertly bridges the gap between theory and practice to provide a holistic view of making radical change through three lenses: you as a leader, your organization, and society. Drawing on Duane and Fisher’s wealth of collective experience, this book pays particular attention to how emerging technologies, biological revolutions, energy abundance create opportunities for humanity’s transformational purpose, and emergence of new intelligent species over the next two hundred years. Readers will find various case studies showing successful and failed responses to disruption, and learn about topics including: What is needed for mankind to thrive beyond the predictions of the singularity, and how that will shift our communications, beliefs, and values. How can we create anti-fragile organizations and global systems based on nature’s ecosystems. Humanity’s coexistence with technology, the fall of centralized systems, and the emergence of collective intelligence as a solution for prosperity. A guide for change, SUPERSHIFTS earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders seeking to create a better world for themselves, their organizations, and society at large. Offer Expires 2/25/2026.
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