The AI Executive's Handbook

<p>The AI Executive's Handbook: Governing the Ungoverned Machine is a field guide for leaders builders and thinkers facing the most profound shift since the invention of writing. It argues that AI is not just a technology-it is the next great language innovation one that reorganizes work power and society at breathtaking speed.</p><p>For the first time machines can read write and reason within our systems. Yet most organizations adopt AI by drift not by design-pasting data into chatbots piloting tools without guardrails and calling it transformation. This book calls that what it is: ungoverned.</p><p>Drawing on decades of experience across AI product strategy and organizational design Misha Sulpovar introduces a practical framework for building the AI Control Plane-a new layer of governance that enables safe scalable and intentional adoption.</p><p>Readers will learn how to:</p><p> • Design context not just prompts so AI acts with purpose and accountability.</p><p> • Build governance frameworks that accelerate innovation instead of blocking it.</p><p> • Turn shadow AI into structured auditable value creation.</p><p> • Rethink the roles of leaders managers and teams in a world of agentic systems.</p><p> • Create a culture of AI literacy and trust that scales across the enterprise.</p><p>Blending history strategy and future design The AI Executive's Handbook connects the dots between the printing press the internet and today's generative models. It is both a manifesto for governing what we have unleashed and a roadmap for building the future on purpose.</p><p>For executives product leaders and policymakers this book is a mirror and a manual-showing what happens when intelligence becomes infrastructure.</p>