By Dr. Sandeep K. Krishnan, FPM 2007 | Isha Sandeep Krishnan | Aekta Sandeep Krishnan
Synopsis:
Every boardroom conversation eventually arrives at the same question: what is our AI story? Most senior leaders know the question is coming. Very few have a confident answer – not because they lack intelligence, but because almost everything written on AI is either too technical to be useful or too speculative to be actionable. AI for CEOs exists to close that gap.
This is not a technology book. It asks you to think differently about strategy, competitive advantage, decision-making, and organisational design — all through the lens of what AI actually makes possible for leaders today.
The book opens with a deceptively simple observation: the next generation will not learn AI. They will assume it exists, the way we assumed the internet and the smartphone exist. That generational shift and the gap it creates between today’s boardrooms and tomorrow’s workforce is the leadership challenge at the heart of every chapter.
Across ten chapters, the book covers how AI reshapes strategy and business models, where it genuinely augments CEO decision-making and where it must not, relevant AI tools as of today, how to build AI-ready organisations without losing the human core of culture, and how to govern AI responsibly before risk becomes a crisis. It closes with a practical 90-day action plan — structured so a leader can move from curiosity to measurable impact without waiting for the perfect conditions. The book has commentaries from Prof Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIMA, and Amitabh Kant, Former CEO, NITI Aayog & G-20 Sherpa. The foreword of the book is written by Prof. Sumanta Basu, Professor and Dean, IIM Calcutta.
As Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Director of IIM Ahmedabad, writes: “AI literacy is no longer optional for leaders — it is foundational. This book will support leaders to ask the right questions and lead their organisations through a transition that is as much cultural as it is technological.”
Available on Amazon India. 178 pages. Written to be read across two flights and acted on the morning after. It is a call to be on the right side of the future. More details: www.ai-forceos.com
About the Author
Dr. Sandeep K. Krishnan is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and CEO of People Business, a global leadership consulting firm. A visiting faculty member at IIM A, where he teaches “Making of a CEO,” he has worked with over 200 organisations on leadership and business transformation. He holds certifications from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, and is a Cambridge-certified coach. He is a participant in the certification in Applied Generative AI from the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of three prior books published by Penguin Random House.
AI for CEOs is co-authored with his daughters, Isha and Aekta, both school students and AI enthusiasts who brought a generational perspective that no amount of consulting experience could replicate.
