2009 Medalists

GENERAL BUSINESS / ECONOMICS 

• Gold: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely (HarperCollins Publishers) 
• Silver: Right Before You Write, by Jonathan O’Brien, Th.D. (Sandy Point Ink)
• Bronze: Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years, by Paul B. Carroll & Chunka Mui (Portfolio/Sentinel)

CAREER (job search, career advancement) 

• Gold (tie): From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press)
• How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What’s Left of Your Career, by Jason Seiden (Trestle Publishing)
• Silver (tie): When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates to Know, by Nancy Barry (Brown Books)
• Seeing Yourself as Others Do, by Carol Keers and Thomas Mungavan (Significant Pursuit)
• Bronze: The Busy Adult’s Guide to Making College Happen!, by Geoffrey Schmidt (Break Free Publishing)

SALES (sales skills, negotiating, closing) 

• Gold: Customer Loyalty Concepts: The First Interactive Thought Book, by Jeffrey Gitomer (Lito Press)
• Silver: Maximum Horsepower: How to Strengthen Your Sales Force Quickly, by Ocean Palmer (Airplane Reader Publishing)
• Bronze: Stop Selling and Do Something Valuable, by Steve Walmsley (Mastery Press)

LEADERSHIP

• Gold: The People Pill: The Cure for Every Manager’s Number One Problem, by Ken Wright (Amanda Gore International)
• Silver: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin (Portfolio/Penguin)
• Bronze: The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization, by Peter F. Drucker (Jossey-Bass)

COMMUNICATION SKILLS / NETWORKING

• Gold: The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam (Portfolio/Penguin)
• Silver: Loud & Clear: 5 Steps to Say What You Mean and Get What You Want, by Karen Berg (Career Press)
• Bronze (tie): Managing Thought: How Do Your Thoughts Rule Your World?, by Mary J. Lore (Ferne Press)
• Battles between Somebodies and Nobodies: Combat Abuse of Rank at Work and at Home, by Julie Ann Wambach, Ph.D. (Brookside Press)

BUSINESS ETHICS 

• Gold: How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business (and in Life), by Dov Seidman (John Wiley & Sons)
• Silver: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood (House of Anansi Press)
• Bronze: Integrity in the Workplace, by Steve Marr (Business Proverbs)

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT / PRODUCTIVITY / TQM 

• Gold: Choosing Project Success: A Guide for Building Professionals, by J.F. McCarthy (Pareto)
• Silver: On Selling Management: The Path to a Better Top Line, by Spider Lockhart & Ulrich Herter (Arbor Eight)
• Bronze: Physical Asset Management for the Executive, by Howard W. Penrose, PhD, CMRP (Success by Design)

HUMAN RESOURCES / EMPLOYEE TRAINING 

• Gold: Home Staging & Re-Design Course, by Judy Mandel & Kirsten Levinson (Haverhill Institute of Staging & Design)
• Silver: No More Rotten Eggs: 13 Steps to Hiring Grade AA Talent, by Debra Thompson & Bill Greif (TG & Associates) 
• Bronze: 101 Movie Clips that Teach and Train, by Becky Pike Pluth, M.Ed. (Pluth & Pluth)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Gold (tie): ECOpreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet before Profits, by John Ivanko & Lisa Kivirist (New Society Publishers)
• The Knack: How Street Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham (Portfolio/Penguin Group)
• Silver: 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire, by Sam Wyly (Newmarket Press)
• Bronze: Six Disciplines Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier, by Gary Harpst (Six Disciplines Publishing)

PHILANTHROPY / CHARITY / NONPROFIT

• Gold: Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership, by Frances Kunreuther, Helen Kim & Robby Rodriguez (Jossey-Bass)
• Silver: Doing Good Well: What does (and does not) make sense in the nonprofit world, by Willie Cheng (Jossey-Bass) 
• Bronze: Field Guide to Developing, Operating and Restoring Your Nonprofit Board, by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD (Authenticity Consulting LLC)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS / GLOBALIZATION 

• Gold: The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy, by David M. Smick (Portfolio/Penguin Group)
• Silver: The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World, by Amar Bhidé (Princeton University Press)
• Bronze: The Collaborator: Discover Soccer as a Metaphor for Global Business Leadership, by Winsor Jenkins (DW Publishing)

PERSONAL FINANCE (estate planning, debt management) 

• Gold: Grow Your Money: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest, by Jonathan D. Pond (Collins)
• Silver (tie): The Frugal Millionaires: 70 millionaires anonymously share their ideas about money to help each other and you, by Jeff Lehman (Mentor Press)
• The Emotion Behind Money: Building Wealth from the Inside Out, by Julie Murphy Casserly, CFP (Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, LLC)
• Bronze: Debt is Slavery and 9 Other Things I Wish My Dad Had Taught Me About Money, by Michael Mihalik (October Mist Publishing) 

INVESTING (stocks, bonds, hedge funds, options, futures) 

• Gold (tie): Fibonacci Analysis, by Constance Brown (Bloomberg Press)
• Trading ETFs: Gaining an Edge with Technical Analysis, by Deron Wagner (Bloomberg Press)
• Silver: DeMark Indicators, by Jason Perl (Bloomberg Press)
• Bronze: That’s What It Means! A Practical Guide to Everyday Finance Terms, by Peter Woan (Practical Guide Publishing) 

RETIREMENT PLANNING

• Gold: Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully, by Bill Roiter (J. Wiley & Sons)
• Silver: You Can Do It! The Boomer’s Guide to a Great Retirement, by Jonathan D. Pond (Collins)
• Bronze: The Stories: Tomorrow – Your Business Without You, by Dick Yemm, CFP (Riley’s Press)

COACHING / MENTORING

• Gold: Loud & Clear: 5 Steps to Say What You Mean and Get What You Want, by Karen Berg (Career Press)
• Silver: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions, by Keith Rosen (John Wiley & Sons)
• Bronze: In the Spirit of Leadership: A Vision Into A Different Future, by Cheryl Esposito (Plumb Road Publishing) 

SUCCESS / MOTIVATION

• Gold (tie): Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin!, by Ronald M. Shapiro with Gregory Jordan (Crown Business)
• Ready Thinking, Primed for Change: 5 Principles for Action in Times of Uncertainty, by John Baker (Wonsockon Publishers)
• Silver: Hitting Your Stride: Your Work, Your Way, by Nan S. Russell (Capitol Publishing)
• Bronze: A Passion for the Edge: Living Your Dreams Now, by Tim Tyler (Edenscape Publishing)

ADVERTISING / MARKETING / PR / EVENT PLANNING

• Gold: The Age of Engage: Reinventing Marketing for Today’s Connected, Collaborative, and Hyperinteractive Culture, by Denise Shiffman (Hunt Street)
• Silver (tie): Step Into the Spotlight! A Guide to Getting Noticed, by Tsufit (Beach View Books)
• Powerlines: Words That Sell Brands, Grip Fans & Sometimes Change History, by Steve Cone (Bloomberg Press)
• Bronze (tie): Emotionomics: Winning Hearts and Minds, by Dan Hill (Beaver’s Pond Press)
• How Come No One Knows About Us? The Ultimate Public Relations Guide, by Robert Deigh (W Business Books)

CORPORATE HISTORY / MILESTONE

• Gold: Shine On: 100 Years of Shiner Beer, by Mike Renfro (Bright Sky Press)
• Silver: Ideas + Buildings: Collective Process, by Perkins+Will (Perkins+Will)
• Bronze (tie): The Policyowner’s Company: A History of Northwestern Mutual, 1857-2007, by John Gurda (Northwestern Mutual Life)
• Pride in Our Past, Promise for the Future: A Monumental Story, Rosemary Riesett Limmen (Monumental Life Insurance Company)

REAL ESTATE (buying, investing, management) 

• Gold: Confessions of a Real Estate Mini-Mogul, by James S. Pockross (Samson Publishing)
• Silver: The Foreclosure Revolution: What you need to know to make a fortune in today’s challenging real estate market, by Joe Sesso (Bonacci & Sesso Publishing)
• Bronze: The Nuts and Bolts of Commercial Real Estate, by Mary A. Collins (Help You Books)

BUSINESS REFERENCE (legal, how-to, technology) 

• Gold: Handbook of Industry Profiles 2008: Analysis and Trends for 300 Industries (Hoover’s Business Press)
• Silver: CARLAW F&I Legal Desk Book, by Thomas B. Hudson and the Attorneys of Hudson Cook, LLP (CounselorLibrary.com)
• Bronze: Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms: Third Edition, by Damien Abbott (Delta Alpha Publishing)

MEMOIR / BIOGRAPHY

• Gold (tie): 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire, by Sam Wyly (Newmarket Press)
• Le Deal: How a Young American, in Business, in Love, and in Over His Head, Kick-Started a Multibillion-Dollar Industry in Europe, by J. Byrne Murphy (St. Martin’s Press)
• Silver: Everything New is Free: Thoughts of a Globetrotting Hotelier, by Peter Alatsas (Asia Media)
• Bronze: No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Undoing of an African American Executive Company Man, by James Alston (BookSurge) 

BUSINESS FABLE

• Gold: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, by Bob Burg and John David Mann (Portfolio/Penguin Group)
• Silver: Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling (in an Uphill World), by Mitchell Lewis Ditkoff (Morgan James Publishing)
• Bronze: The Dream Manager, by Matthew Kelly (Hyperion)