Congratulations to the winners of the 12th annual Axiom Business Book Awards! Listed below are the gold, silver, and bronze medal winners in each category.
GENERAL CATEGORIES:
1. Business Theory | 2. Business Commentary | 3. Economics | 4. Career (job search, career advancement) | 5. Sales (sales skills, negotiating, closing) | 6. Leadership | 7. Networking (social networking, communication skills) | 8. Business Ethics | 9. Business Intelligence / Innovation | 10. Human Resources / Employee Training | 11. Entrepreneurship | 12. Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability | 13. International Business / Globalization | 14. Personal Finance / Retirement Planning / Investing | 15. Business Technology | 16. Women / BIPOC in Business | 17. Success / Motivation / Coaching | 18. Advertising / Marketing / PR / Event Planning | 19. Corporate History / Milestone | 20. Business Reference (legal, how-to, industry specific) | 21. Memoir / Biography | 22. Business Fable
GENERAL CATEGORIES
1. BUSINESS THEORY
GOLD (tie): Kill Bad Meetings, by Kevan Hall and Alan Hall (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
The Corporate Start-Up, by Tendayi Viki, Dan Toma and Esther Gones (Management Impact)
SILVER: Political Risk, by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart (Hachette)
BRONZE: Reinvent Your Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth , by Mark Johnson (Innosight)
2. BUSINESS COMMENTARY
GOLD: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, by Kai-Fu Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
SILVER: Meltdown, by Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik (Allen Lane)
BRONZE: Rocket Billionaires, by Tim Ferholz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
3. ECONOMICS
GOLD: The Global Economy As You’ve Never Seen It, by Thomas Ramge and Jan Schwochow (The Experiment)
SILVER: Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation, by Isabel Sawhill (Yale University Press)
BRONZE: Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics, by Robert Skidelsky (Yale University Press)
4. CAREER (job search, career advancement)
GOLD: The Compass and the Radar: The Art of Building a Rewarding Career While Remaining True to Yourself, by Paolo Gallo (Bloomsbury Business)
SILVER: Defining You: How to Profile Yourself and Unlock Your Full Potential, by Fiona Murden (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
BRONZE: Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive, by Bradley R. Staats (Harvard Business Review Press)
5. SALES (sales skills, negotiating, closing)
GOLD: The 60-Second Sale: The Ultimate System for Building Lifelong Client Relationships in the Blink of an Eye, by David V. Lorenzo (Wiley)
SILVER: Consistency Selling: Powerful Sales Results. Every Lead. Every Time., by Weldon Long (Greenleaf Book Group)
BRONZE: The Customer Centricity Playbook: Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value, by Peter Fader and Sarah Toms (Wharton Digital Press)
6. LEADERSHIP
GOLD (tie): Leadership: In Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace, by Kelly Riggs & Robby Riggs (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
SILVER (tie): Open to Think: Slow Down, Think Creatively, and Make Better Decisions, by Dan Pontefract (Figure 1)
WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work, by Aron Ain (McGraw Hill Education)
BRONZE: Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Culture that Matters, by Piyush Patel (Dream Big Imprint)
7. NETWORKING (social networking, communication skills)
GOLD: The Snowball System: How to Win More Business and Turn Clients in Raving Fans, by Mo Bunnell (PublicAffairs)
SILVER (tie): Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks that Can Transform Your Life and Your Career, by David Burkus (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
You Were Born To Speak: So What’s Holding You Back? by Richard Newman (Long Reach)
BRONZE: The Financial Times Guide to Social Media Strategy: Boost Your Business, Manage Risk, and Develop Your Personal Brand, by Martin Thomas (Pearson)
8. BUSINESS ETHICS
GOLD: The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, by Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon (Harper Business)
SILVER: The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and+ Capitalism, by Joel Solomon with Tyee Bridge (New Society Press)
BRONZE: Global Goals Yearbook 2018: Partnerships for the Goals, by Macondo Foundation (Macondo Publishing)
9. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE / INNOVATION
GOLD: Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, by Howard Yu (Public Affairs)
SILVER: Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb (Harvard Business Review Press)
BRONZE: Costovation: Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want—and Nothing More, by Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Law (HarperCollins Leadership)
10. HUMAN RESOURCES / EMPLOYEE TRAINING
GOLD (tie): Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve, by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press)
Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work, by Ravin Jesuthasan & John W. Boudreau (Harvard Business Review Press)
SILVER: The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance, by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton (Simon & Schuster)
BRONZE: The Power of Vulnerability: How to Create a Team of Leaders by Shifting INward, by Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester (Greenleaf Book Group)
11. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
GOLD (tie): Small Town Big Money: Entrepreneurship and Opportunity in Today’s Small Town, by Colby Williams (Self-Published)
Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance, by Naveen Jain with John Schroeter (Moonshots Press)
SILVER: A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, by Tren Griffin (Columbia Business School Publishing)
BRONZE: Entrepreneurial Negotiation: Understanding and Managing the Relationships that Determine Your Entrepreneurial Success, by Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind (Palgrave Macmillan)
12. PHILANTHROPY / NONPROFIT / SUSTAINABILITY
GOLD: The Trillion Dollar Shift: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; Business for Good is Good for Business, by Marga Hoek (Routledge)
SILVER: Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships, by Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke (Columbia University Press)
BRONZE: The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet, by Magali A. Delmas with David Colgan (Stanford Business Books)
13. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS / GLOBALIZATION
GOLD: The New Global Road Map: Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times, by Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard Business Review Press)
SILVER: The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society, by William R. Kerr (Stanford University Press)
BRONZE: When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures – 4th Edition, by Richard D. Lewis (Hachette)
14. PERSONAL FINANCE / RETIREMENT PLANNING / INVESTING
GOLD (tie): The Geometry of Wealth: How to Shape a Life of Money and Meaning, by Brian Portnoy (Harriman House)
The Behavioral Investor, by Daniel Crosby (Harriman House)
SILVER: Broken Pie Chart: 5 Ways to Build Your Investment Portfolio to Withstand and Prosper in Risky Markets, by Derek Moore (Emerald Publishing)
BRONZE: Retire Securely: Insights on Money Management from an Award-Winning Financial Columnist, by Julie Jason (Sterling Publishing)
15. BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY
GOLD: Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI, by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson (Harvard Business Review Press)
SILVER: Data Driven: Harnessing Data and AI to Reinvent Customer Engagement, by Tom Chavez, Chris O'Hara, Vivek Vaidya (McGraw Hill Education)
BRONZE: The Technology Takers: Leading Change in the Digital Era, by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox (Emerald Group Publishing)
16. WOMEN / MINORITIES IN BUSINESS
GOLD: The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate, by Fran Hauser (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
SILVER: Permission to Roar: For Female Thought Leaders Ready to Write Their Book, by Marni Freedman, M.S. LMFT (MCM Publishing)
BRONZE: Women, Minorities, and Other Extraordinary People: The New Path for Workforce Diversity, by Barbara B. Adams, PsyD (Greenleaf Book Group)
17. SUCCESS / MOTIVATION / COACHING
GOLD (tie): Life is a Startup: What Founders Can Teach Us About Making Choices and Managing Change, by Noam Wasserman (Stanford Business Books)
Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World, by Ama Marston and Stephanie Marston (Public Affairs)
SILVER: Peer Coaching at Work: Principles and Practices, by Polly Parker, Douglas T. Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Ilene C. Wasserman (Stanford Business Books)
BRONZE: Leadership’s Perfect Storm: What Millennials Are Teaching Us about Possibilities, Passion, and Purpose, by Susan Inouye (Book Publishers Network)
18. ADVERTISING / MARKETING / PR / EVENT PLANNING
GOLD (tie): Brand Intimacy: A New Paradigm in Marketing, by Mario Natarelli & Rina Plapler (Hatherleigh Press)
Iconic Advantage: Don’t Chase the New, Innovate the Old, by Soon Yu with Dave Birss (Savio Republic)
SILVER: The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, by Christophe Morin, Ph.D. (Wiley)
BRONZE: The Art & Craft of PR: Creating the Mindset and Skills to Succeed in Public Relations Today, by Sandra Stahl (LID Publishing)
19. CORPORATE HISTORY / MILESTONE
GOLD: Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, by Adam Fisher (Twelve)
SILVER: Treated Like Family: How an Entrepreneur and His “Employee Family” Built Sargento, a Billion-Dollar Cheese Company, by Tom Faley (Center Street)
BRONZE: An Unlikely Intervention: A Start-Up Company’s Quest to Conquer the World’s Second Leading Killer of Children, by Thomas Washing (Leather Apron Media)
20. BUSINESS REFERENCE (legal, how-to)
GOLD: Data Visualization Made Simple: Insights into Becoming Visual, by Kristen Sosulski (Routledge)
SILVER: Disrupt! 100 Lessons in Business Innovation, by James Bidwell (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
BRONZE: How to Wrestle an Octopus: An Agency Account Manager’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything, by Sarah Ritchie (AM-Insider)
21. MEMOIR / BIOGRAPHY
GOLD: Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, by Hasia Diner (Yale University Press)
SILVER: Being Dead is Bad for Business, by Stanley A. Weiss (Disruption Books)
BRONZE: The Unrules: Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets, by Igor Tulchinsky (Wiley)
22. BUSINESS FABLE
GOLD: Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise and Impact, by Ron Price and Stacy Ennis (Greenleaf Book Group)
SILVER: The Thriving Hive: How People-Centric Workplaces Ignite Engagement and Fuel Results, by Mari Ryan (Pequossette Press)
BRONZE: StrategyMan vs. the Anti-Strategy Squad: Using Strategic Thinking to Defeat Bad Strategy and Save Your Plan, by Rich Horwath (Greenleaf Book Group)
