AWARD WINNING BUSINESS BOOKS
2018 AWARD WINNING BUSINESS BOOKS
2018 Axiom Business Book Award Winners Announced: Medalists Prepare Us for the Future with Warnings and Advice
(Traverse City, MI, Feb 15, 2018) It’s a wild, fast-changing world we live in. Technological innovations and societal changes keep today’s savvy business people in constant need of education and enlightenment. How to keep up? By reading award-winning business books!
Jenkins Group is proud to announce the winners of the eleventh annual Axiom Business Book Awards, honoring the best business books published during the past year.
These medal-winning books epitomize the Axiom Award motto, “Success through Knowledge,” by offering business people the latest information, across a wide spectrum of concepts and viewpoints, and helping them succeed in a complicated and increasingly volatile world.
This kind of cultural clarification is what the Axiom Awards strive for, and all 77 of the medalists, chosen from nearly 500 entries, have some insight or advice to offer the inquisitive business person. This year’s medals went to publishers and authors representing 15 U.S. states; the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and Switzerland — a blend of established New York publishers, university presses, and independent publishers of all sizes.
“Business success demands that business leaders keep learning and growing,” said company founder Jerrold Jenkins. “This year’s Axiom Award-winning books offer many valuable insights that will help us embrace change and continue moving forward.”
Learn more about the Axiom Awards at http://www.axiomawards.com.
Congratulations to the medalists in the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards!
Below you will find links to purchase the award-winning books.
1. Business Theory
GOLD
Principles
By Ray Dalio (Simon & Schuster)
SILVER (tie)
The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change
By Bharat Anand (Random House)
Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future
By Julian Birkinshaw and Jonas Ridderstråle (Stanford Business Books)
BRONZE
The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy
By Linda Bernardi, Sanjay Sarma, and Kenneth R. Traub (The MIT Press)
2. Business Commentary
GOLD
What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI Algorithms Bots and Big Data
By Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring (Wiley)
SILVER (tie)
Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined The Company That’s Disrupting The World
By Mike Hoefflinger (Amacom)
$UPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and their Networks Rule Our World
By Sandra Navidi (Nicholas Brealey Publishers)
BRONZE
Mean Men: The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man
By Mark Lipton (Voussoir Press)
3. Economics
GOLD
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
By Craig R. Roach (BenBella Books)
SILVER
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
By Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider (Princeton University Press)
BRONZE (tie)
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
By Mihir A. Desai (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
TAP: Unlocking the Mobile Economy
By Anindya Ghose (The MIT Press)
4. Career (job search, career advancement)
GOLD
Entering Startupland: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
By Jeffrey Bussgang (Harvard Business Review Press)
SILVER
The Right (And The Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made (and Unmade)
By Carter Cast (Public Affairs)
BRONZE
The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts will Rule the Digital World
By Scott Hartley (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
5. Sales (sales skills, negotiating, closing)
GOLD
Ninja Selling: Subtle Skills. Big Results
By Larry Kendall (Greenleaf Book Group)
SILVER
The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: 10 Essential Strategies for Leading Your Team to the Top
By Kevin F. Davis (Greenleaf Book Group)
BRONZE
RIDE THE WAVE: How To Embrace Change And Create A Powerful New Relationship With Risk
By John Wessinger (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)
6. Leadership
GOLD (tie)
Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to 21st-Century Issues
By Donald T. Phillips (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
No Limits: Blow the Cap Off Your Capacity
By John C. Maxwell (Center Street)
SILVER (tie)
SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
By Angie Morgan Courtney Lynch & Sean Lynch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For
By Jonathan Raymond (IdeaPress Publishing)
BRONZE
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
By Christine Porath (Grand Central Publishing)
7. Networking (social media, communication skills, etc.)
GOLD
Leadership in Focus: Bringing Out Your Best on Camera
By Vern Oakley (Greenleaf Book Group)
SILVER
Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done
By Dianna Booher (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
BRONZE
Life Would Be Easy if it Weren’t for Other People
By Connie Podesta (STANDOUT Press)
8. Business Ethics
GOLD
The 3rd Ingredient: The Journey of Analog Ethics into the World of Digital Fear and Greed
By Jim Blasingame (SBN Books)
SILVER
Rogues of Wall Street: How to Manage Risk in the Cognitive Era
By Andrew Waxman (Wiley)
BRONZE
The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports
By Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr. (Wharton Digital Press)
9. Operations Management / Lean / Continuous Improvement
GOLD
Seeing Around Corners: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data
By Graham Hogg (LID Publishing)
SILVER
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
By Joi Ito and Jeff Howe (Grand Central Publishing)
BRONZE
Mind+Machine: A Decision Model for Optimizing and Implementing Analytics
By Marc Vollenweider (Wiley)
10. Human Resources / Employee Training
GOLD
The Talent Brand: The Complete Guide to Creating Emotional Employee Buy-In for Your Organization
By Judy Ordioni (LID Publishing)
SILVER
Dedication: The Foundations of Huawei’s HR Management
By Huang Weiwei (LID Publishing)
BRONZE
Gen Z @ Work: How the Next Generation is Transforming the Workplace
By David Stillman and Jonah Stillman (Harper Business)
11. Entrepreneurship / Small Business
GOLD (tie)
Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation
By Steven Hoffman (Center Street)
The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation
By David Robertson with Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review Press)
SILVER
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions…and Created Plenty of Controversy
By Leigh Gallagher (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
BRONZE
Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive
By Dorie Clark (Harvard Business Review Press)
12. Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability
GOLD
Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent Problems
By Georgia Levenson Keohane (Columbia Business School)
SILVER
Headwinds of Opportunity: A Compass for Sustainable Innovation
By Tim Lindsey (Routledge)
BRONZE
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line: Eight Steps Toward a Sustainable Business Model
By Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa (The MIT Press)
13. International Business / Globalization
GOLD
The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment is Reshaping Africa
By Irene Yuan Sun (Harvard Business Review Press)
SILVER
Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
By Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy (Ecco)
BRONZE
The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
By Tsedal Neeley (Princeton University Press)
14. Personal Finance / Retirement Planning / Investing
GOLD
Wealth by Virtue
By Chad Gordon (GreenStar Press)
SILVER
Book of Value: The Fine Art of Investing Wisely
By Anurag Sharma (Columbia University Press)
BRONZE
Investment Traps Exposed: Navigating Investor Mistakes and Behavioral Biases
By H. Kent Baker and Vesa Puttonen (Emerald Publishing)
15. Business Technology
GOLD
TAP: Unlocking the Mobile Economy
By Anindya Ghose (The MIT Press)
SILVER
Management in Singularity: From Linear to Exponential Management
By Prof. Tjeu Blommaert and Stephan van den Broek in cooperation with Erik Kolthof (Vakmedianet)
BRONZE (tie)
Data Strategy: How to Profit from a World of Big Data, Analytics and the Internet of Things
By Bernard Marr (Kogan Page)
Confident Coding: Master the Fundamentals of Code and Supercharge Your Career
By Rob Percival (Kogan Page)
16. Women / Minorities in Business
GOLD
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
By Scott E. Page (Princeton University Press)
SILVER
The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders
By Kathryn Heath, Jill Flynn, Mary Davis Holt, and Diana Faison (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
BRONZE
That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together
By Joanne Lipman (William Morrow)
17. Success / Motivation / Coaching
GOLD
The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea Business or Next Career
By Sanyin Siang (LID Publishing)
SILVER (tie)
A Quarter Million Steps: Creativity, Imagination, & Leading Transformative Change
By Anthony Paustian, PH.D. (Bookpress Publishing)
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
By Chip Heath & Dan Heath (Simon & Schuster)
BRONZE
Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again
By Scott Mautz (Amacom)
18. Advertising / Marketing / PR / Event Planning
GOLD
Streampunks: YouTube and the Rebels Remaking Media
By Robert Kyncl with Maany Peyvan (Harper Business)
SILVER (tie)
The Native Advertising Advantage: Build Authentic Content that Revolutionizes Digital Marketing and Drives Revenue Growth
By Mike Smith (McGraw-Hill Education)
The CEO’s Guide to Marketing: The Book Every Marketer Should Read Before Their Boss Does
By Lonny Kocina (Maple Island)
BRONZE
Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit
By Joe Pulizzi & Robert Rose (McGraw-Hill Education)
19. Corporate History / Milestone
GOLD
Perfectly Aged: 40 Years of Recipes and Stories from the Taste of Texas
By Nina J. Hendee, Edd C. Hendee, Lisa Hendee Blackard, Kristin Ann Hendee Blackford, and Corbin Blackford (Taste of Texas)
SILVER
The JD.com Story: An E-Commerce Phenomenon
By Li Zhigang (LID Publishing)
BRONZE
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency
By James Andrew Miller (Custom House)
20. Business Reference (legal, how-to)
GOLD
Super Structured: How to Overcome Chaos and Win Back Time
By David Stiernholm (LID Publishing)
SILVER (tie)
50 Economics Classics: The Greatest Books Distilled
by Tom Butler-Bowdon (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
Swanepoel Trends Report: 2018
By Stefan Swanepoel (T3 Sixty)
BRONZE
Basic Accounting: Concepts Principles and Procedures Vol 1 & 2 (Second Edition)
By Gregory R. Mostyn (Worthy & James Publishing)
21. Memoir / Biography
GOLD
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong
By Neil Monnery (London Publishing Partnership)
SILVER
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
By Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman (Simon & Schuster)
BRONZE
Against All Odds: Leading Nokia from Near Catastrophe to Global Success
By Jorma Ollila & Harri Saukkomaa; translated by Richard Powell (Maven House)
22. Business Fable
GOLD
The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation
By Gregg Ward with Walter G. Meyer (Wiley)
SILVER
Cadence: A Tale of Fast Business Growth
By Pete Williams (Morgan James Publishing)
BRONZE
Be Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do It
By Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg with Roy H. Williams (Buyer Legends)
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