Congratulations to the winners of the 16th 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) | 6a. Leadership | 6b. Leadership – Experiential (Biographical/Autobiographical) | 7. Networking (social media, communication skills, etc.) | 8. Business Ethics | 9. Business Intelligence / Innovation | 10. Business Disruption / Reinvention | 11. Human Resources / Employee Training | 12. Entrepreneurship / Small Business | 13. Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability | 14. International Business / Globalization | 15. Personal Finance / Retirement Planning / Investing | 16. Business Technology | 17. Emerging Trends / AI | 18. Women / BIPOC in Business | 19. Success / Motivation / Coaching | 20. Advertising / Marketing / PR | 21. Corporate History / Milestone | 22. Real Estate | 23. Business Reference | 24. Memoir / Biography | 25. Business Fable | 26. Work-Life Balance / Time Prioritization | 27. Independent Thought Leaders
GENERAL CATEGORIES
1. BUSINESS THEORY
GOLD
Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source
by Kathryn Judge
(Harper Business)
Silver (tie)
Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia
by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
(Stanford University Press)
Silver (tie)
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
by Erica Thompson
(Basic Books)
Bronze
For Profit: A History of Corporations
by William Magnuson
(Basic Books)
2. BUSINESS COMMENTARY
GOLD
Cloudmoney
by Brett Scott
(Harper Business)
Silver
The Capitalist and the Activist
by Tom C.W. Lin
(Berrett-Koehler Publications, Inc.)
Bronze (tie)
The Actor’s Mindset
by Craig Archibald
(Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
Bronze (tie)
Fine Dining: The Secrets Behind the Restaurant Industry
by Jack Rasmussen
(New Degree Press)
3. ECONOMICS
GOLD
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
(Public Affairs/Hachette Book Group)
Silver
Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
by Christopher Leonard
(Simon and Schuster)
Bronze (tie)
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford DeLong
(Basic Books)
Bronze (tie)
Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
by Howard Yaruss
(Prometheus Books)
4. CAREER (job search, career advancement)
GOLD
Principles
by Ray Dalio
(Avid Reader Press)
Silver (tie)
I Wish I’d Known This: 6 Career-Accelerating Secrets for Women Leaders
by Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath
(Berrett Koehler)
Silver (tie)
Unmuted - How to Show Up, Speak Up and Inspire Action
by Heather Hansen
(Bloomsbury)
Bronze
The College Devaluation Crisis
by Jason Wingard
(Stanford Business Books)
5. SALES (sales skills, negotiating, closing)
GOLD
Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate
by Barry Nalebuff
(HarperBusiness)
Silver
The Transparent Sales Leader
by Todd Caponi
(Ideapress Publishing)
Bronze
The Invisible Game
by Kai-Markus Mueller and Gabriele Rehbock
(Wiley)
6a. LEADERSHIP
GOLD
The Waymakers: Clearing the Path to Workplace Equity with Competence and Confidence
by Tara Jaye Frank
(Amplify Publishing Group)
Silver
Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel
by Gena Cox, Ph.D.
(Page Two)
Bronze (tie)
Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done
by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton & Anthony Gostick
(Harper Business)
Bronze (tie)
The Emotionally Strong Leader: An Inside-Out Journey to Transformational Leadership
by Carolyn Stern
(Figure.1)
6b. LEADERSHIP - EXPERIENTIAL (BIOGRAPHICAL/AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL)
GOLD
Hot Seat
by Jeff Immelt
(Avid Reader Press)
Silver
Real Wins
by Michelle Moore
(Hachette Book Group)
Bronze
Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made
by David Gergen
(Simon & Schuster)
7. NETWORKING (social media, communication skills, etc.)
GOLD
The Non-Obvious Guide to Better Presentations
by Jacqueline Farrington
(Ideapress Publishing)
Silver
Have I Got Dirt for You
by Dominique J. Darmon
(Amsterdam University Press)
Bronze
Good Listen: Creating Memorable Conversations In Business And Life
by Joe Pardavila
(Advantage)
8. BUSINESS ETHICS
GOLD
Ethically Challenged
by Laura Katz Olson
(Johns Hopkins University Press)
Silver
The Hard Sell
by Evan Hughes
(Doubleday)
Bronze
Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies
by Ranjay Gulati
(Harper Business)
9. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE / INNOVATION
GOLD
The Innovation Mindset
by Lorraine Marchand with John Hanc
(Columbia Business School Publishing)
Silver
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
by Gillian Tett
(Avid Reader Press)
Bronze (tie)
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
by Dr. Albert Bourla
(Harper Business)
Bronze (tie)
The Smart Mission: NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
by Edward J. Hoffman, Matthew Kohut and Laurence Prusak
(The MIT Press)
10. BUSINESS DISRUPTION / REINVENTION
GOLD
Hangry
by Mike Evans
(Legacy Lit)
Silver
The Future of Executive Development
by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Das Narayandas
(Stanford Business Books)
Bronze
Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization & Make Hybrid Work for Everyone
by Lynda Gratton
(The MIT Press)
11. HUMAN RESOURCES / EMPLOYEE TRAINING
GOLD
Getting the People Equation Right
by Logan Loomis
(Penn & Season Press)
Silver (tie)
Next Level Virtual Training: Advance Your Facilitation
by Diana L. Howles, MA
(ATD Press)
Silver (tie)
You, Me, We: Why we all need a friend at work (and how to show up as one!)
by Morag Barrett
(Page Two)
Bronze
Leading Through Loss: How to Navigate Grief at Work
by Margo M. Fowkes
(Find Your Harbor Press)
12. ENTREPRENEURSHIP / SMALL BUSINESS
GOLD
How Creativity Rules the World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas into Gold
by Maria Brito
(HarperCollins Leadership)
Silver
The Rise of the Rest
by Steve Case
(Avid Reader Press)
Bronze (tie)
Buoyant: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free
by Susie deVille
(Page Two)
Bronze (tie)
Launch in 5
by Will Russell
(Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
13. PHILANTHROPY / NONPROFIT / SUSTAINABILITY
GOLD
There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women
by Mary Ellen Iskenderian
(The MIT Press)
Silver
Investing in the Era of Climate Change
by Bruce Usher
(Columbia Business School Publishing)
Bronze
Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing
by Terrence Keeley
(Columbia Business School Publishing)
14. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS / GLOBALIZATION
GOLD (tie)
The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business
by Satish Nambisan and Yadong Luo
(The MIT Press)
GOLD (tie)
Mao and Markets:The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
by Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao
(Yale University Press)
Silver
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg
(Simon and Schuster)
Bronze (tie)
Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests
by Agathe Demarais
(Columbia University Press)
Bronze (tie)
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
by Aynne Kokas
(Oxford University Press)
15. PERSONAL FINANCE / RETIREMENT PLANNING / INVESTING
GOLD
How to Invest
by David M. Rubenstein
(Simon and Schuster)
Silver (tie)
Financial Adulting: Everything You Need To Be a Financially Confident and Conscious Adult
by Ashley Feinstein Gerstley
(Wiley)
Silver (tie)
Women Wise: The Essential Guide to Financial and Lifestyle Decisions as We Age
by Marjorie L. Fox, JD, CFP® and Eleanor Blayney, MBA
(Amplify Publishing)
Bronze
You Are Worthy: Change Your Money Mindset, Build Your Wealth & Fund Your Future
by Kelley Holland
(She Writes Press)
16. BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY
GOLD
Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future
by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson
(Accenture)
Silver
Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work
by Phil Simon
(Motion Publishing)
Bronze
The First Superapp: Inside China's WeChat and the new digital revolution
by Kevin Shimota
(Earnshaw Books)
17. EMERGING TRENDS / AI
GOLD
The Genesis Machine
by Amy Webb & Andrew Hessel
(Public Affairs)
Silver
You’ve Been Played
by Adrian Hon
(Basic Books)
Bronze
The Equality Machine
by Orly Lobel
(Public Affairs)
18. WOMEN / BIPOC IN BUSINESS
GOLD
Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America
by Patricia A. Banks
(Stanford University Press)
Silver (tie)
The Other
by Daniela Pierre-Bravo
(Legacy Lit)
Silver (tie)
Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work
by Ruchika Tulshyan
(The MIT Press)
Bronze
The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America
by Deepa Purushothaman
(Harper Business)
19. SUCCESS / MOTIVATION / COACHING
GOLD
Decoding Greatness
by Ron Friedman
(Simon & Schuster)
Silver
Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others
by Stephen R. Covey and Cynthia Covey Haller
(Simon & Schuster)
Bronze
Promotions Are SO Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive
by Julie Winkle Giulioni
(ATD Press)
20. ADVERTISING / MARKETING / PR
GOLD
Adapt: Scaling Purpose in a Divisive World
by Diane Primo
(Weeva)
Silver (tie)
Reach: Create the Biggest Possible Audience for Your Message, Book, or Cause
by Becky Robinson
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Silver (tie)
Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts
by Neil Hoyne
(Portfolio / Penguin)
Bronze
Assemblage
by Emmanuel Probst
(Ideapress Publishing)
21. CORPORATE HISTORY / MILESTONE
GOLD
Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story
by Robert G. Allan with Peter A. Robson
(Harbour Publishing)
Silver (tie)
The Tao of Alibaba
by Brian A. Wong
(Public Affairs)
Silver (tie)
Sweating Together
by David J. Miller, PhD
(Ideapress Publishing)
Bronze
The Founders
by Jimmy Soni
(Simon & Schuster)
22. REAL ESTATE
GOLD
The Business of Timeshares: Uncovering the Peaks and Valleys of an Enigmatic Industry
by W.H. Campbell
(Amplify)
Silver
Your First Home: The Proven Path to Homeownership
by Gary Keller and Jay Papsan
(Keller Ink)
Bronze
House Poor No More: 9 Steps that Grow the Value of Your Home and Net Worth
by Romana King
(Houndstooth Press)
23. BUSINESS REFERENCE
GOLD
Making Numbers Count
by Chip Heath & Karla Starr
(Avid Reader Press)
Silver
User Experience Research: Discover What Customers Really Want
by Marty Gage and Spencer Murrell
(Wiley)
Bronze (tie)
Global Category Manager's Handbook
by Erik Stavrand and Jose Hanagan
(SEAK, LLC)
Bronze (tie)
Making Sense of Cybersecurity
by Thomas Kranz
(Manning)
24. MEMOIR / BIOGRAPHY
GOLD
Freezing Order
by Bill Browder
(Simon & Schuster)
Silver (tie)
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread to All
by Owen Ullmann
(Hachette Book Group)
Silver (tie)
The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir
by Linda Schuyler
(ECW Press)
Bronze
Making Sense of Cybersecurity
by Thomas Kranz
(Manning)
25. BUSINESS FABLE
GOLD
Who Do You Want To Be On The Way To What You Want? Coaching With The Empowerment Dynamic
by Donna Zajonc MCC
(Polaris Publishing)
Silver
Said the Lady with the Blue Hair: 7 Rules for Success in Direct Sales Wrapped in a Wonderful Lesson for Life
by Lisa M. Wilber and Jeff C. West
(West Marketing Group, INC)
Bronze
The Irrelevant Old Brand: A Business Fable About Taking Your Brand from Mediocre to Must-Have
by J.W. Huebner
(Bailey Brothers Publishing Company, LLC)
26. WORK-LIFE BALANCE / TIME PRIORITIZATION
GOLD
Space Maker: How to Unplug, Unwind & Think Clearly in the Digital Age
by Daniel Sih
(100M Publishing)
Silver (tie)
From Burnout to Purpose: Simple Strategies for a Soul-Fulfilling Approach to Work
by Gina S. Calvano
(Self-Published)
Silver (tie)
Values First: How Knowing Your Core Beliefs Can Get You the Life and Career You Want
by Laura Eigel, PhD
(Houndstooth Press)
Bronze
The Can-Do Mindset: How to Make Things Happen with Enthusiasm
by Denise Gabel
(Can-do-ology)
27. INDEPENDENT THOUGHT LEADERS
GOLD (tie)
Leading Lightly
by Jody Michael
(Greenleaf Book Group)
Gold (tie)
Lift
by Faisal Hoque
(Fast Company Press)
Silver
The Zen Executive: Gems of Wisdom for Enlightened Leadership
by Jim Blake
(Unity Books)
Bronze
The Most Unlikely Leader: An Unbelievable Journey from GED to CEO
by Roger Smith
(Ballast Books)
