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Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age: Mastering Change with Purpose
The future is not something that happens to us. It’s something we create.
We are entering an age where intelligence—human, artificial, and collective—has become the world’s most powerful resource. In Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age, Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum and author of the global bestseller The Fourth Industrial Revolution, offers an essential guide for those determined to lead this transformation with clarity, courage, and purpose.
Drawing on decades of engagement with business, policy, and science, Schwab explains how the Intelligent Age reshapes every domain of decision-making—and how leaders can harness its potential for progress.
Whether you’re an executive, entrepreneur, professional, or curious learner, this groundbreaking book equips you
→ Build strategic intelligence to anticipate change before it disrupts your organization
→ Lead teams and institutions where human and artificial intelligence work in synergy
→ Align innovation with ethics, empathy, and long-term value creation
→ Thrive personally and professionally amid volatility by developing adaptive, values-based leadership
→ Translate global technological shifts into sustainable growth and societal benefit
The first volume in the Intelligent Age Series, this is both a manifesto and a manual for the leaders of tomorrow.
The Intelligent Age will shape us—or we can learn how to shape it.
We are entering an age where intelligence—human, artificial, and collective—has become the world’s most powerful resource. In Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age, Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum and author of the global bestseller The Fourth Industrial Revolution, offers an essential guide for those determined to lead this transformation with clarity, courage, and purpose.
Drawing on decades of engagement with business, policy, and science, Schwab explains how the Intelligent Age reshapes every domain of decision-making—and how leaders can harness its potential for progress.
Whether you’re an executive, entrepreneur, professional, or curious learner, this groundbreaking book equips you
→ Build strategic intelligence to anticipate change before it disrupts your organization
→ Lead teams and institutions where human and artificial intelligence work in synergy
→ Align innovation with ethics, empathy, and long-term value creation
→ Thrive personally and professionally amid volatility by developing adaptive, values-based leadership
→ Translate global technological shifts into sustainable growth and societal benefit
The first volume in the Intelligent Age Series, this is both a manifesto and a manual for the leaders of tomorrow.
The Intelligent Age will shape us—or we can learn how to shape it.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 27, 2025
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Klaus Schwab
46 books242 followersKlaus Martin Schwab is a German engineer and economist best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.
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November 14, 2025
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We live in a technical world getting more technical everyday. Yet technology is only a means to an end. The end is not technical but human centric if we hang on to the moral law. This book did a good job reminding me of that.
We live in a technical world getting more technical everyday. Yet technology is only a means to an end. The end is not technical but human centric if we hang on to the moral law. This book did a good job reminding me of that.
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