2018 MEDALIST BOOKSTORE
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)
Purchase Here
SILVER (tie)
The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
By Bharat Anand (Random House)
PURCHASE HERE
Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future
By Julian Birkinshaw and Jonas Ridderstråle (Stanford Business Books)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy
By Linda Bernardi, Sanjay Sarma, and Kenneth R. Traub (The MIT Press)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER (tie)
Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined The Company That's Disrupting The World
By Mike Hoefflinger (Amacom)
PURCHASE HERE
$UPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and their Networks Rule Our World
By Sandra Navidi (Nicholas Brealey Publishers)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Mean Men: The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man
By Mark Lipton (Voussoir Press)
PURCHASE HERE
3. Economics
GOLD
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
By Craig R. Roach (BenBella Books)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
By Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider (Princeton University Press)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE (tie)
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
By Mihir A. Desai (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
PURCHASE HERE
TAP: Unlocking the Mobile Economy
By Anindya Ghose (The MIT Press)
PURCHASE HERE
4. Career (job search, career advancement)
GOLD
Entering Startupland: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
By Jeffrey Bussgang (Harvard Business Review Press)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
The Right (And The Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made (and Unmade)
By Carter Cast (Public Affairs)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts will Rule the Digital World
By Scott Hartley (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
PURCHASE HERE
5. Sales (sales skills, negotiating, closing)
GOLD
Ninja Selling: Subtle Skills. Big Results
By Larry Kendall (Greenleaf Book Group)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
RIDE THE WAVE: How To Embrace Change And Create A Powerful New Relationship With Risk
By John Wessinger (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
6. Leadership
GOLD (tie)
Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to 21st-Century Issues
By Donald T. Phillips (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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No Limits: Blow the Cap Off Your Capacity
By John C. Maxwell (Center Street)
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SILVER (tie)
SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
By Angie Morgan Courtney Lynch & Sean Lynch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
PURCHASE HERE
Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For
By Jonathan Raymond (IdeaPress Publishing)
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BRONZE
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
By Christine Porath (Grand Central Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
7. Networking (social media, communication skills, etc.)
GOLD
Leadership in Focus: Bringing Out Your Best on Camera
By Vern Oakley (Greenleaf Book Group)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done
By Dianna Booher (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Life Would Be Easy if it Weren’t for Other People
By Connie Podesta (STANDOUT Press)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports
By Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr. (Wharton Digital Press)
PURCHASE HERE
9. Operations Management / Lean / Continuous Improvement
GOLD
Seeing Around Corners: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data
By Graham Hogg (LID Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
By Joi Ito and Jeff Howe (Grand Central Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Mind+Machine: A Decision Model for Optimizing and Implementing Analytics
By Marc Vollenweider (Wiley)
PURCHASE HERE
10. Human Resources / Employee Training
GOLD
The Talent Brand: The Complete Guide to Creating Emotional Employee Buy-In for Your Organization
By Jody Ordioni (LID Publishing)
SILVER
Dedication: The Foundations of Huawei's HR Management
By Huang Weiwei (LID Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Gen Z @ Work: How the Next Generation is Transforming the Workplace
By David Stillman and Jonah Stillman (Harper Business)
PURCHASE HERE
11. Entrepreneurship / Small Business
GOLD (tie)
Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation
By Steven Hoffman (Center Street)
PURCHASE HERE
The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation
By David Robertson with Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review Press)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy
By Leigh Gallagher (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive
By Dorie Clark (Harvard Business Review Press)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Headwinds of Opportunity: A Compass for Sustainable Innovation
By Tim Lindsey (Routledge)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line: Eight Steps Toward a Sustainable Business Model
By Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa (The MIT Press)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
By Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy (Ecco)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
By Tsedal Neeley (Princeton University Press)
PURCHASE HERE
14. Personal Finance / Retirement Planning / Investing
GOLD
Wealth by Virtue
By Chad Gordon (GreenStar Press)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Book of Value: The Fine Art of Investing Wisely
By Anurag Sharma (Columbia University Press)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Investment Traps Exposed: Navigating Investor Mistakes and Behavioral Biases
By H. Kent Baker and Vesa Puttonen (Emerald Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
15. Business Technology
GOLD
TAP: Unlocking the Mobile Economy
By Anindya Ghose (The MIT Press)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Management in Singularity: From Linear to Exponential Management
By Prof. Tjeu Blommaert and Stephan van den Broek in cooperation with Erik Kolthof (Vakmedianet)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE (tie)
Data Strategy: How to Profit from a World of Big Data, Analytics and the Internet of Things
By Bernard Marr (Kogan Page)
PURCHASE HERE
Confident Coding: Master the Fundamentals of Code and Supercharge Your Career
By Rob Percival (Kogan Page)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
17. Success / Motivation / Coaching
GOLD
The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business or Next Career
By Sanyin Siang (LID Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER (tie)
A Quarter Million Steps: Creativity, Imagination, & Leading Transformative Change
By Anthony Paustian, PH.D. (Bookpress Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
By Chip Heath & Dan Heath (Simon & Schuster)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again
By Scott Mautz (Amacom)
PURCHASE HERE
18. Advertising / Marketing / PR / Event Planning
GOLD
Streampunks: YouTube and the Rebels Remaking Media
By Robert Kyncl with Maany Peyvan (Harper Business)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER (tie)
The Native Advertising Advantage: Build Authentic Content that Revolutionizes Digital Marketing and Drives Revenue Growth
By Mike Smith (McGraw-Hill Education)
PURCHASE HERE
The CEO's Guide to Marketing: The Book Every Marketer Should Read Before Their Boss Does
By Lonny Kocina (Maple Island)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit
By Joe Pulizzi & Robert Rose (McGraw-Hill Education)
PURCHASE HERE
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)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
The JD.com Story: An E-Commerce Phenomenon
By Li Zhigang (LID Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency
By James Andrew Miller (Custom House)
PURCHASE HERE
20. Business Reference (legal, how-to)
GOLD
Super Structured: How to Overcome Chaos and Win Back Time
By David Stiernholm (LID Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER (tie)
50 Economics Classics: The Greatest Books Distilled
by Tom Butler-Bowdon (Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
Swanepoel Trends Report: 2018
By Stefan Swanepoel (T3 Sixty)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Basic Accounting: Concepts Principles and Procedures Vol 1 & 2 (Second Edition)
By Gregory R. Mostyn (Worthy & James Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
21. Memoir / Biography
GOLD
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong
By Neil Monnery (London Publishing Partnership)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
By Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman (Simon & Schuster)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Against All Odds: Leading Nokia from Near Catastrophe to Global Success
By Jorma Ollila & Harri Saukkomaa; translated by Richard Powell (Maven House)
PURCHASE HERE
22. Business Fable
GOLD
The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation
By Gregg Ward with Walter G. Meyer (Wiley)
PURCHASE HERE
SILVER
Cadence: A Tale of Fast Business Growth
By Pete Williams (Morgan James Publishing)
PURCHASE HERE
BRONZE
Be Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do It
By Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg with Roy H. Williams (Buyer Legends)