June 1, 2026 · 11:01 am

NEW- Mind The Gap: Scaling Businesses Across Cultures by Vincent Lauria, Stefano Pellegrino, & Savanid Vatanasakdakul 

Title:  Mind The Gap

Subtitle:  Scaling Businesses Across Cultures

Author: Vincent Lauria, Stefano Pellegrino, Savanid Vatanasakdakul 

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Globalization

Format: Hardcover, eBook 

Released:   May, 2026

Publisher:   Wiley

Synopsis:

Your global expansion isn’t failing because of your strategy — it’s failing because you don’t see the cultural gap.

You’ve done everything right — built a strong product, crafted a solid pitch, entered a promising market… and yet deals fall apart, partnerships stall, and nothing lands the way it should. You start wondering: What am I missing?

This book is NOT another generic business guide filled with theory and one-size-fits-all frameworks. It’s a real-world playbook built from decades of experience scaling companies across continents. Written by global venture capitalist Vincent Lauria and international operator Stefano Pellegrino, it reveals what actually happens when business meets culture — and how to navigate it successfully.

Imagine… walking into any new market with confidence, instantly reading the room, building trust faster than your competitors, and closing deals that once seemed impossible.

Inside the book, you will discover:

  • Why deals that feel “done” suddenly collapse overnight — and the invisible signal you missed
  • What people really mean when they say “yes”… and how it can quietly kill your deal
  • The unspoken rules of trust that can make or break you in a new market — before you even realize it
  • The subtle mistakes that silently destroy your expansion — and how to spot them before they cost you everything
  • Why your proven strategy stops working the moment you cross a border — and what actually works instead
  • The hidden skill top global leaders use to adapt instantly in any culture (and why most people never develop it)
  • How to build teams that truly perform across cultures — without miscommunication, friction, or costly hiring mistakes

This isn’t just theory — you’ll find actionable insights, real stories, and practical frameworks you can apply immediately, like having a seasoned global advisor guiding your every move.

Think you’ve read books on international business before? This one goes deeper — into the human layer most books ignore. Short on time? Each chapter delivers clear, usable takeaways you can implement right away.

Every day you wait, someone else is learning how to win in markets you still don’t fully understand.
Buy Now and stop being the outsider in rooms where real decisions are made.

 

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Gap-Scaling-Businesses-Cultures/dp/1394381476/

 

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June 1, 2026 · 10:39 am

New- ALIGNED WITH INTELLIGENCE: Reflections on Leadership, AI, and Consciousness by Jeff Arnold

Title:  ALIGNED WITH INTELLIGENCE

Subtitle:  Reflections on Leadership, AI, and Consciousness

Author:  Jeff Arnold

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Business Leadership

Format: eBook and Paperback

Released:   April 2026

Synopsis:

Artificial intelligence is accelerating.

But the real shift isn’t happening in machines.

It’s happening in us.

Aligned With Intelligence is not a technical book about AI.

It is a book about how leaders must think, decide, and act in a world where intelligence is no longer limited to human minds.

Through a series of short, powerful reflections, this book explores the deeper questions most conversations about AI avoid:

• What happens when speed outpaces judgment?
• How do you lead systems you don’t fully understand?
• What does accountability look like when decisions are influenced by algorithms?
• Why will human clarity become more valuable—not less—as AI expands?

This is not a book you read once.

It is a book you return to.

Each chapter is intentionally brief—designed to be read in minutes, but considered for much longer.

Between chapters, you will find space.

That space is intentional.

Because in an age of constant acceleration, the ability to pause, think clearly, and act with purpose will define the next generation of leadership.

Aligned With Intelligence challenges a simple assumption:

That more intelligence automatically leads to better outcomes.

It doesn’t.

Alignment does.

As AI becomes faster, more embedded, and more powerful, the question is no longer:

“What can technology do?”

The question is:

“Who are we becoming while we build it?”

If you are a leader, builder, operator, or thinker navigating the future of AI…

This book will not give you easy answers.

But it will help you ask better questions.

And in the age of intelligent systems—

that may be the most valuable skill of all.

The latest work from bestselling author Jeff Arnold, Aligned With Intelligence offers a clear, thought-provoking perspective on leadership in the age of artificial intelligence.

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/ALIGNED-INTELLIGENCE-Reflections-Leadership-Consciousness/dp/B0GVRZ87JG/#detailBullets_feature_div

 

 

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May 31, 2026 · 10:35 am

Featured- The Payroll Pivot: From Invisibility to Influence by Nick Day

Title:  The Payroll Pivot

Subtitle:  From Invisibility to Influence

Author:  Michael Earls

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Business Management

Format: Hardcover, eBook and Paperback

Released:   March 27, 2026

327 Pages

Synopsis:

The profession that runs in silence is about to get loud.

Payroll controls up to 80% of an organisation’s operating expenditure. It holds compliance risk worth millions. It is the reason every employee trusts their employer enough to show up tomorrow.

And yet it remains one of the most strategically undervalued functions in business.

The Payroll Pivot exists to change that.

Nick Day has spent 24 years placing over 10,000 payroll professionals, conducted more than 400 podcast conversations with industry leaders, and coached payroll executives across the globe. This book distils everything he has learned about why brilliant professionals stay invisible, and what happens when they stop.

Inside, you will discover:

  • How to move from the back office to the boardroom by translating payroll data into language the C-suite cannot ignore.
  • Why fear, not skill, is the hidden force keeping talented professionals silent, and how The Fear Equation offers a way through.
  • How AI is not replacing payroll professionals but promoting them, and what it means to become the algorithmic conscience of work.
  • Real stories from leaders who made the pivot, from processor to partner, from invisible to indispensable.
  • Practical frameworks for building trust, leading with character, and sustaining resilience in a profession that never stops.
  • How to claim your seat at the table. Not by waiting for permission. By making yourself impossible to overlook.

The Payroll Pivot is the book the profession has been waiting for. From back office to front line. From transactional to strategic. From Payroll Leader to the Chief Payroll Officers the algorithmic age demands. From invisibility to influence.

Payroll professionals who pivot will shape the future. Those who don’t will be shaped by it. This is your pivot

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRN2MBBR

 

 

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May 31, 2026 · 10:22 am

New Release- Create Your Own Luck: How Leaders leverage the Intersection of Preparation and Opportunity (Create Your Own Luck: The Playbook) by Jeremy Owoh

 

Title: Create Your Own Luck

Subtitle:  How Leaders leverage the Intersection of Preparation and Opportunity 

Author:  Jeremy Owoh

Genre: Non-Fiction/Self-Help/Time Management

Format: eBook and Paperback

Pages:     174

Released:   April, 2026

Synopsis:

The concept of luck carries various connotations, often shaped by individual experiences and perspectives. From a spiritual realm, there has also been some controversy about if there is really such a thing of luck. Throughout my leadership journey, I have contemplated its true meaning and have come to define luck as the intersection of preparation and opportunity. If there is one principle that encapsulates my leadership experience, it is the unwavering commitment to preparation—ensuring that I am ready to seize any opportunity that arises. Moreover, my journey has been shaped not only by diligence and readiness but also by the profound influence of grace and mercy.

 

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX32JQQV

 

 

 

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May 30, 2026 · 10:23 am

Featured- Finding Direction in the Age of AI: Finding Clarity, Leadership and Human Connection in a World Moving at Machine Speed by Michael Earls 

 

Title: Finding Direction in the Age of AI 

Subtitle:  Finding Clarity, Leadership and Human Connection in a World Moving at Machine Speed

Author:  Michael Earls

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Business Strategy 

Format: eBook and Paperback

Released:   March, 2026

Synopsis:

Technology has never moved faster. Cloud computing reshaped how organizations build systems. Artificial intelligence is transforming how decisions are made, how information is created, and how work itself happens.

But as innovation accelerates, something important is becoming harder to find:

Direction.

In Finding Direction in the Age of AI, technology leader Michael Earls explores what it means to stay human in a world increasingly driven by machines.

Drawing from more than two decades working across infrastructure engineering, cloud transformation, and enterprise technology leadership, Michael reflects on the deeper questions technology forces us to ask:

• How do leaders maintain clarity when information moves at machine speed?

• What happens to culture when work becomes fully digital?

• Can artificial intelligence increase productivity without replacing the human elements that make work meaningful?

Blending stories from the evolution of datacenters, cloud platforms, and AI with reflections on leadership, curiosity, and connection, this book offers a thoughtful guide for navigating the modern technology landscape.

Because the real challenge of the AI era isn’t keeping up with speed.

It’s remembering where we’re trying to go.

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRN2MBBR

 

Michael Earls is a technology and cloud transformation leader with more than two decades of experience helping organizations navigate major shifts in technology. His career has spanned infrastructure, cloud platforms, enterprise strategy, and leadership during some of the most transformative periods in modern computing.

Having worked across startups, enterprise technology companies, and global cloud platforms, Michael writes about the intersection of technology, leadership, and human connection in an era where innovation moves at machine speed.

Finding Direction in the Age of AI reflects on how leaders and organizations maintain clarity, culture, and purpose as artificial intelligence reshapes how we work.

 

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May 30, 2026 · 2:13 am

Featured- The Delivery Gap: Why AI Adoption Fails and How Engineering Leaders Fix It by Brenn Hill

 

Title: The Delivery Gap

Subtitle:  Why AI Adoption Fails and How Engineering Leaders Fix It

Author:   Brenn Hill

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Management

Format: eBook and Paperback

Released:   April 10, 2026

Synopsis:

Your team is writing more code than ever. Your incident rate is climbing too.

Pull request volume is up. Review quality is down. Senior engineers are spending their weeks proofreading AI-generated output instead of designing systems. The dashboards say productivity is up. The incident rate says otherwise.

This is the delivery gap: the growing distance between how fast your team can generate code and how fast your organization can verify that code is correct, secure, and aligned with what you intended to build.

Stripe ships 1,300+ AI-generated PRs per week — every one human-reviewed. Spotify’s LLM-as-judge vetoes 25% of agent sessions. These companies are not faster because they adopted AI. They are faster because they built the verification infrastructure to make AI output trustworthy.

The Delivery Gap shows you how to build that infrastructure.

Inside:

  • The Verification Triangle — metrics that tell you whether your verification is keeping pace with your generation velocity
  • Six-tier quality gates — from static analysis through behavioral monitoring, each catching failure classes the tier below cannot see
  • The Capability Ladder — seven levels of organizational readiness, from experimentation through full agentic operations
  • Eight decisions — an implementation sequence with completion criteria, starting from wherever you are
  • The Conversation — six questions your leadership will ask about AI governance, and how to answer them with data
  • Case studies — what Stripe, Spotify, Webflow, Dropbox, and Airbnb actually built (not what vendors claim)

This is not a book about prompting. It is a book about what happens after the code is generated.

For CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors, and Engineering Managers responsible for AI adoption.

 

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRY2XH1

 

 

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May 30, 2026 · 1:35 am

Featured: Ghost in the Cabin by R.W. Dove

 

Title:   Ghost in the Cabin

Author: R.W. Dove

Genre: Ghosts/Thriller

Format: Kindle, Hardcover, paperback

Pages:   324 pages

Publication Date: May 12, 2026

Synopsis:

In Ghost in the Cabin by R.W. Dove, four friends from New York City escape the chaos of urban life for a relaxing vacation in a secluded cabin nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. Their tranquil getaway quickly takes a chilling turn when they encounter a mysterious couple who abruptly disappear without explanation, leaving the friends questioning the safety of their retreat.

Determined to uncover the truth behind their new friends’ vanishing act, the group contacts local authorities, only to be pulled deeper into a web of the town’s dark secrets. As they delve into the mystery, they discover that the past is not as buried as it seems, ghostly tales of murder and unresolved injustices begin to surface, threatening not only their vacation but their very lives.

With a plot filled with unexpected twists and eerie revelations, the novel explores themes of friendship, betrayal, and the haunting legacies of those who have come before. In this gripping tale, the dead have their own stories to tell, and the friends must confront the chilling reality that some secrets are best left undisturbed.

Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/0iSacj9g

 

 

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May 29, 2026 · 10:29 am

Featured-Garbage In, Faster: Why AI Needs Conversation Architects (Structured Conversations) by Claude Hanhart 

Title: Garbage In, Faster

Subtitle:  Why AI Needs Conversation Architects (Structured Conversations)

Author:   Claude Hanhart 

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Management

Format: eBook

Released:   April 19, 2026

Synopsis: #1 Amazon Kindle Best Seller in 10 categories: Business Management, Strategic Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science, Strategy & Competition, Business Systems & Planning, Organizational Learning, Business & Organizational Learning, plus two short-read categories in Business & Money and Computers & Technology

AI doesn’t remove the need for human alignment. It amplifies it.

From the co-author of the #1 Amazon Kindle Bestseller Connecting Goals to Impacts and Outcomes comes a provocative companion: a book about why AI makes human conversation skills more essential — not less.

Organizations laid off Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. Then they adopted AI. They eliminated the people who create alignment — and bought a technology that makes alignment more critical than ever.

The result? Garbage in, faster.

This book was written in collaboration with Claude AI by Anthropic. The entire manuscript was generated in under 60 seconds. But those 60 seconds only worked because of the hours of structured conversation that preceded them — and the twenty years of expertise behind those conversations.

The process of writing this book proved its thesis.

What you’ll learn:

• Why “agile is dead” is the wrong diagnosis — and what actually failed
• Communication Debt: the invisible liability destroying your organization
• Why AI multiplies clarity AND confusion equally — and you choose which
• How VERB + NOUN syntax creates infrastructure for both humans and AI
• Why “context engineering” is Structured Conversations by another name
• The five conversations AI can never have for you
• How to become a Conversation Architect — the role organizations need most
• Five conversations you can have Monday morning with no new tools

Who this book is for:

• Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches wondering what comes next
• Product Managers whose AI tools produce beautiful, meaningless artifacts
• Executives who invested in AI but aren’t seeing results
• Anyone who suspects that better conversations might be the answer

A companion to Connecting Goals to Impacts and Outcomes: Harnessing Structured Conversations for Customer-Driven Value Delivery. That book is the complete toolkit. This one is the argument for why that toolkit is now existential.

Structure the Conversation. Deliver the Outcome.

 

Buying Links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX378NBV

 

 

 

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May 22, 2026 · 10:25 am

New: Koryo Poomsae for Competition and Self-Defense by Marc Zirogiannis

 

Title:  Koryo Poomsae for Competition and Self-Defense

Author:   Marc Zirogiannis

Genre: Non-Fiction/Taekwondo/Self-Defense

Format: Paperback

86 Pages

Publisher: Taekwondo Life Magazine

Publication Date:  June 2026

Synopsis: Poomsae, or Forms practice, is an integral element of the world’s most practiced martial art, Taekwondo. Taekwondo is not only the historic Korean martial art but also a permanent Olympic sport of the Summer Games. The foundation of any Taekwondo practitioner’s training is rooted in the practice of forms. In this step-by-step guide, an International Taekwondo Master and World Taekwondo Referee breaks down the most significant Taekwondo form for competition and self-defense. That form is called “Koryo”. It represents the Spirit of Korea. The techniques, methodology, and terminology here are good for beginners through advanced Taekwondo practitioners. Master Marc Zirogiannis has been a Taekwondo practitioner since 1986. He has served as an instructor, International Kukkiwon Certified Master, Internationally Certified World Taekwondo Coach, and Internationally Certified World Taekwondo Referee in Kyorugi and Poomsae. Accompanied by Step-by-Step photos.

Buying Link : https://taekwondolifemagazine-shop.fourthwall.com/products/koryo-poomsae-for-competition-and-self-defense

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April 23, 2026 · 10:39 am

Featured-THE AGENCY BUSINESS BLUEPRINT by Luca Senatore

Title: THE AGENCY BUSINESS BLUEPRINT

Subtitle:  Scale smarter. Lead stronger. Stay profitable in the era of AI. Build the agency the next decade demands. 

Author:   Luca Senatore

Genre: Non-Fiction/Business/Management

Publisher: Babysteps Publishing Limited

Format: eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, & Audio

Released:   December 2025

Synopsis:

The Agency Business Blueprint
Scale smarter. Lead stronger. Stay profitable in the era of AI.

The agency world has changed — permanently.

What worked even five years ago is no longer enough. Margins are tighter. Clients are more demanding. AI is reshaping every service line. And the next 12–24 months will determine whether your agency grows, plateaus, or quietly disappears.

In The Agency Business Blueprint, agency leader and strategist Luca Senatore delivers a practical, experience-led field guide for building agencies that don’t just survive change — but use it as a competitive advantage.

This is not a book of hacks, trends, or theory.

It’s a blueprint built from two decades of real-world experience: building and exiting agencies, leading teams at scale, working inside Google, and coaching hundreds of agency founders across global markets.

Whether you’re running a boutique agency or leading an established team, this book shows you how to build clarity, leadership, and commercial strength in a world defined by uncertainty and AI-driven disruption.

Inside, you’ll discover:

  • How to build an agency designed for long-term relevance — not short-term wins

  • Why clarity, positioning, and leadership matter more than tactics

  • How to scale profitably in uncertain markets without burning out your team

  • How AI should power growth, differentiation, and margins — not just save time

  • How modern agencies win business, retain clients, and grow sustainably

  • How to move from “service provider” to trusted business growth partner

This book is structured around three essential phases — Build, Grow, and Scale — giving you a clear roadmap from foundation to future-proofing.

If you want an agency your team is proud of, your clients trust, and your future self thanks you for building, this book is your starting point.

The agency of the future isn’t louder.
It’s clearer. Stronger. Smarter.

 

 

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