Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work, and Life reads as easily as a business magazine feature while still delivering substance. That combination is rare in AI management writing, and it is exactly what makes this book work for a broad range of readers.

Eight authors contributed to this self-published title, among them Pascal Bornet, Thomas H. Davenport, and David De Cremer. Between them the group holds multiple PhDs, MBAs, and a CPA, plus decades of experience as business leaders and researchers. That depth of credentials is unusual for a self-published book and gives the material real weight.

The chapters move from the rise of AI agents and the five levels of agent autonomy. From there they cover the three keystones of agentic systems: action, reasoning, and memory. Later sections turn practical, covering how to build agents, new business models in the agent economy, and what human-agent collaboration means for leadership and trust. The closing chapters look at how agentic AI reshapes work and society more broadly.

This book fits naturally into a business curriculum, and non-technical managers will find it just as approachable as technical readers do.

Recommended for professionals across every field who now need to work alongside AI agents, not just IT and security teams. Managers evaluating where to introduce agent-based tools will find a practical starting framework here.

Originally published in ISSA Journal’s "The Cyber Library" column, January-February 2026 issue, by Jay Carson, Semper Sec’s Cyber Librarian. Read more at issa.org.