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We turn a great nonfiction book into a live leadership experience that boosts engagement, sparks strategic discussion, and drives measurable action in your organization.


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Meet Rishad Tobaccowala

Debabelize helps authors like Rishad extend his book into more workplaces.

The Real Workplace Revolution

Using tools like NotebookLM, we break the book down into digestible chunks.

Reading as a Group Activity

We create shared experiences where participants can focus on planning.

A New Kind of Factory Floor

Underscoring all of this is an insight into the future of work: employees have concerns about the future.

Servant Leadership

Our goal is to help leaders engage with their employees on the issues that may prevent them from doing their best work.

For senior leadership teams who want to deepen alignment and build future-ready strategy, debabelize translates leading books into internal missions so that your team speaks the same language and acts with clarity.

Our process

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Choose the books 

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We deliver curated materials + facilitation guide

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We facilitate live sessions

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We measure impact and maintain dialogue.

Coming Soon: AI Strategy

AI is a general purpose technology that delivers advantages we've never seen before. What are the key insights to consider?

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Competing In The Age of AI

Rather than relying on workers or managers, in the age of AI, the value we get is served up by algorithms. Explore the "decision factory" and how this latent space has become the new factory floor. 

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AI First

AI isn't just about incremental efficiencies; it allows for transformation of the core business and outsize improvements in revenue. 

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There's Got To Be A Better Way

Large-scale change rarely improves productivity and always add a lot of busy work. Step by step, we take you through the book's key messages and help you implement dynamic work design in your workplace. 

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Leading Through Disruption

Chapter by chapter, you are introduced to Dow CEO Andrew Liveris and how he changed the culture at one of the world's biggest companies. 

Coming Soon: Geopolitical AI

Geopolitics has been inextricably linked to AI since its inception. Here are books to understand sovereign AI. 

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The World's Worst Bet

The Washington Post economic correspondent argues that the optimistic view of globalization failed because it prioritized economic benefits while ignoring its costs.

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How To Save The Internet

The former President of Global Affairs at Meta argues that the global internet is under threat from both Big Tech, democracies seeking to control tech companies, and authoritarian regimes.

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The Power of Creative Destruction

An Economist Best Book of the Year, this book describes how innovation drives economic growth and how the rest of the world is looking at AI. 

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Breakneck

Important look at China and how ""Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" is shaping its plans for the future. 

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The New DIgital Age

Eric Schmidt follows up on his book with Henry Kissinger to talk about the geopolitical impact of AI.

Coming Soon: AI Criticisms

Critics are relentless. Understand their arguments and consider ways to respond. 

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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Meticulously-reported discussion of potential threats posed to humanity by artificial superintelligence

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Empire of AI

Karen Hao made waves with her description of the history of OpenAI and how she perceives its actions in the context of artificial general intelligence

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Enshittification

Cory Doctorow believes platforms have entered the end stages of abusing their user bases, and what he thinks needs to be done about it. 

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The Handover

Humans have always outsourced tasks to others, whether other humans, churches, political institutions, or machines. 

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The Outsourced Self

One of the first books to explore the emotional terms of engagement individuals develop as they increasingly outsource tasks associated with intimate life.

Coming Soon: The Future

We are at a unique inflection point in history, but the way we look at the future has flaws. 

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Could Should Might Don't

This book unpacks four ways we tend to think about the future and how these visions have shaped our collective idea of what's possible. 

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Deep Economy

Environmentalist Bill McKibben was one of the first to argue moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursue prosperity in a more local direction.

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Human Frontiers

Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge.

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AI: The Great Disruption

AI poses challenges like mass job displacement, misinformation, and the ethical risks of AGI — but also the chance of a prosperous future where humans and intelligent machines thrive side-by-side.

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How Progress Ends

How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by long periods of stagnation.

Coming Soon: The American Experiment

A collection of books that question our idealism about human nature and our romantic notions of American democracy

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The Science of Revenge

Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. The world’s great religions can all be viewed as being social mechanisms to channel the craving for revenge. 

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Anger, Fear, Domination

The Founders didn't expect Americans to be virtuous. They sought to offer Americans something more than grievance, conflict, corruption, and conspiracy.

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We The Fallen People

Optimists are often blindsided by ambitious leaders’ ability to mobilize the public’s anger. Today’s defenders of liberal democracy must set aside their illusions about human nature and history.

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That Book Is Dangerous

A review of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media—when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor.

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The Responsibilities of Democracy

Two leading figures of the British political establishment share their thoughts on where democracy is heading and how it can survive in the 21st century.