Applied AI Leadership: A Practitioner’s Guide to Enterprise Transformation

The hype phase of AI is over. The deployment phase has begun.Your board wants a strategy. Your competitors are running pilots. Your employees are already using unauthorized AI tools. But the path forward is littered with risks: security vulnerabilities, runaway costs, and a workforce paralyzed by fear.Applied AI Leadership is your pragmatic, hype-free guide to enterprise AI transformation.Written by Praveen Sattaru-a seasoned engineer with 20 years of experience building large-scale systems at Microsoft and T-Mobile-this book bridges the gap between boardroom strategy and technical implementation.Inside, you'll discover: - How LLMs actually work (without the math PhD)- Enterprise architecture patterns that survive production- RAG: grounding AI in your proprietary data- Security guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage- Building AI teams without hiring 50 ML PhDs- A "Crawl, Walk, Run" roadmap to avoid PoC purgatoryIncludes The Executive Playbook: A 90-day action plan for leaders to take immediate control of their AI strategy.This isn't about replacing your workforce-it's about empowering them. Stop reacting to the hype. Start leading the transformation.