AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2013 RESULTS
Listed below are the gold, silver and bronze medal winners in each of the 21 Axiom Award categories, 69 medalists in all. There were a total of 394 books entered.
Thanks to all for your participation and congratulations to the medalists!
1. GENERAL BUSINESS
Gold: Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, by Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy (Free Press)
Silver: Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia (Harvard Business Review Press)
Bronze: Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works, by Adam Lashinsky (Business Plus)
2. ECONOMICS
Gold (tie): Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, by Doug Fine (Gotham Books)
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself, by Sheila Bair (Free Press)
Silver: Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, by Neil Barofsky (Free Press)
Bronze: Finance and the Good Society, by Robert J. Shiller (Princeton University Press)
3. CAREER (job search, career advancement)
Gold: Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times , by Marc J. Kuchner (Island Press)
Silver: The Bounce Back: Personal Stories of Bouncing Back Higher and Faster from a Layoff, Re-org or Career Setback, by Sherri Thomas (Booklocker.com)
Bronze: So Good They Can’t Ignore: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, by Cal Newport (Business Plus)
4. SALES (sales skills, negotiating, closing)
Gold: Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and Life, by Grant Cardone (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Silver: Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success: Connect with Customers and Get Results, by Colleen Stanley (AMACOM)
Bronze: How to Read a Client from Across the Room, by Brandy Mychals (McGraw Hill)
5. LEADERSHIP
Gold (tie): The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price, by Laurence G. Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey (Jossey-Bass)
Leading So People Will Follow, by Erika Andersen (Jossey-Bass)
Silver: Leadocracy, by Geoff Smart (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Bronze (tie): Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance, by Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan (Maxwell Stone Publishing)
Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs, by Soren Kaplan (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
6. NETWORKING (social networking, communication skills, etc.)
Gold: You Can’t Not Communicate: Proven Communication Solutions that Power the Fortune 100, by David Grossman, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA (Little Brown Dog Publishing )
Silver: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World, by Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine (Jossey-Bass)
Bronze: Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders, by David Kantor (Jossey-Bass)
7. BUSINESS ETHICS
Gold: Corporate Sustainability: Integrating Performance and Reporting, by Ann Brockett & Zabihollah Rezaee (John Wiley & Sons)
Silver: Civic Empowerment in an Age of Corporate Greed, by Edward C. Lorenz (Michigan State University Press)
Bronze: The (Honest) Truth: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves, by Dan Ariely (Harper)
8. OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT / LEAN / CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Gold: Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management: Operations, Planning, and Control, by John F. Kros and Evelyn C. Brown (Jossey-Bass)
Silver: The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling (Free Press)
Bronze: The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence: A Lean Approach to Improving Project Results, by Adil F. Dalal (CRC Press)
9. HUMAN RESOURCES / EMPLOYEE TRAINING
Gold: All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results, by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton (Free Press)
Silver: Judgment on the Front Line: How Smart Companies Win by Trusting Their People, by Chris DeRose and Noel M. Tichy (Portfolio-Penguin)
Bronze: You Can’t Lie to Me: The Revolutionary Program to Supercharge Your Inner Lie Detector and Get to the Truth, by Janine Driver with Mariska Van Aalst (Harper One)
10. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Gold: For Better or For Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families, by Meg Cadoux Hirshberg (An Inc. Original)
Silver (tie): Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business, by Anthony J. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington, Tsun-Yan Hsieh (Harvard Business Review Press)
The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, by Noam Wasserman (Princeton University Press)
Bronze: The 4 Essentials of Entrepreneurial Thinking: What Successful People Didn’t Learn in School, by Cliff Michaels (Cliff Michaels & Associates)
11. PHILANTHROPY / CHARITY / NONPROFIT
Gold: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World, by Dan Pallotta (Jossey-Bass)
Silver: Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World, by Beverly Schwartz (Jossey-Bass)
Bronze: Lifeworth: Finding Fulfillment Beyond Networth, by Dana Couillard & Hal Couillard (Kingsley Publishing)
12. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS / GLOBALIZATION
Gold: Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China, by Victor Nee and Sonja Opper (Harvard University Press)
Silver: Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy, by Daniel Denison, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane & Colleen Lief (Jossey-Bass)
Bronze: Expanding the Pie: Fostering Effective Non-Profit and Corporate Partnerships, by Susan Rae Ross (Kumarian Press)
13. PERSONAL FINANCE / RETIREMENT PLANNING / INVESTING
Gold: The Big Retirement Risk: Running Out of Money Before You Run Out Of Time, by Erin Botsford (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Silver: You Should Only Have to Get Rich Once: How to Avoid Toxic Financial Advice and Focus on What Really Matters, by Russell E. Holcombe (Emerald Book Co.)
Bronze: Worth It…Not Worth It? Simple & Profitable Answers to Life’s Tough Financial Questions, by Jack Otter (Business Plus)
14. BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY
Gold: Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Technology, by Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay & Mickey McManus (John Wiley & Sons)
Silver: The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive, by Terri L. Griffith (Jossey-Bass)
Bronze: Get Rich Click! The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet, by Marc Ostrofsky (Free Press)
15. WOMEN / MINORITIES IN BUSINESS
Gold: The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Imposter Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It, by Valerie Young, Ed.D (Crown Business)
Silver: Pushback: How Smart Women Ask – and Stand Up – For What They Want, by Selena Rezvani (Jossey-Bass)
Bronze (tie): Big Bold Business Advice from New Jersey Women Business Owners, Edited by Joyce Restaino (Woodpecker Press)
Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World, by Alyse Nelson (Jossey-Bass)
16. SUCCESS / MOTIVATION / COACHING
Gold (tie): Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential , and How You Can Achieve Yours, by Shirzad Chamine (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Dillon (Harper Business)
Silver: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW (Gotham Books)
Bronze: Idea-Links: The New Creativity, by Jim Link (Beaver’s Pond Press)
17. ADVERTISING / MARKETING / PR / EVENT PLANNING
Gold: Story Branding: Creating Standout Brands through the Power of Story, by Jim Signorelli (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Silver: Fire Your Sales Team Today: Then Rehire Them as Sales Guides in Your New Revenue Department, by Mike Lieverman & Eric Keiles (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Bronze: The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, by Doc Searls (Harvard Business Review Press)
18. CORPORATE HISTORY / MILESTONE
Gold: Persistence Creates Opportunity: Building America for 50 Years, by Ames Construction, Inc. (Ames Construction Inc.)
Silver: Carrier: Weathermakers to the World, by Eric B. Schultz (Pinckney Hugo Group)
Bronze: My Company ‘Tis of Thee: 50 Patriotic American Companies American Consumers Should Know About, by Roger Simmermaker (Consumer Patriotism Corporation)
19. BUSINESS REFERENCE (legal, how-to)
Gold: From Fear to Success: A Practical Public-Speaking Guide, by Thomas B. Dowd III (Maine Authors Publishing)
Silver: Dictionary of Publishing Terms: What Every Writer Needs to Know, by Ingrid Lundquist (TLC Publishing)
Bronze: Strategic Pricing for Medical Technologies: A Practical Guide to Pricing Medical Devices and Diagnostics, by Christopher D. Provines (Self-Published)
20. MEMOIR / BIOGRAPHY
Gold: Six Tires, No Plan: The Impossible Journey of the Most Inspirational Leader That (Almost) Nobody Knows, by Michael Rosenbaum (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Silver: The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, by Will Allen with Charles Wilson (Gotham Books)
Bronze: 4th & Goal: One Man’s Quest to Recapture His Dream, by Monte Burke (Grand Central Publishing)
21. BUSINESS FABLE
Gold: Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places, by Tim Scudder, Michael Patterson & Kent Mitchell (Jossey-Bass)
Silver: Degrees of Strength: The Innovative Technique to Accelerate Greatness, by Craig W. Ross & Steven W. Vannoy (Wister & Willows Publishers Inc.)
Bronze: Leaders First: Six Bold Steps to Sustain Breakthroughs in Construction, by Gene Morton (Accelerated Solutions)