2007 Semifinalists and Shortlist Announced Today
We are one step closer to determining the first annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. After nearly 300 titles were submitted to the 8cr editorial staff, 56 are in the running for winning the best in each of the 13 categories, as well as the overall Best Business Book of 2007 award. The final winners will be announced January 15, 2008.
The semifinalists are:
The 2007 Best Business Book shortlist is:
The Dream Manager
Matthew Kelly
The Last Tycoons
William D. Cohan
Made to Stick
Chip and Dan Heath
Strengths Finder 2.0
Tom Rath
ADVERTISING/ MARKETING
Firms of Endearment
Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth
Made to Stick
Chip and Dan Heath
The Marketing Mavens
Noel Capon
The Soul of the Corporation
Hamid Bouchikhi, John R. Kimberly
What's Your Story?
Ryan Mathews, Watts Wacker
BIOGRAPHIES/ MEMOIRS
The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan
Bill & Dave
Michael S. Malone
Typo
David Silverman
Valley Boy
Tom Perkins
ENTREPRENEURSHIP/ SMALL BUSINESS
Be the Elephant
Steve Kaplan
The Engine of America
Hector Barreto
My Start-Up Life
Ben Casnocha
No Man's Land
Doug Tatum
There's a Business in Every Woman
Ann Holmes
FABLES
Don't Gobble the Marshmallow...Ever!
Joachim de Posada and Ellen Singer
The Dream Manager
Matthew Kelly
The Janitor
Todd Hopkins & Ray Hilbert
FINANCE/ ECONOMICS
Connected
Daniel Altman
A Demon of Our Own Design
Richard Bookstaber
The Economic Naturalist
Robert Frank
Grande Expectations
Karen Blumenthal
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
GLOBALIZATION
All the Tea in China
Jeremy Haft
The Elephant and the Dragon
Robyn Meredith
The Emerging Markets Century
Antoine van Agtmael
The Oil and the Glory
Steve LeVine
The Sushi Economy
Sasha Issenberg
HUMAN RESOURCES/ ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Growing Great Employees
Erika Andersen
Off Ramps and On Ramps
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
One Foot Out the Door
Judith M. Bardwick, PhD
The Truth About Hiring the Best
Cathy Fyock
INDUSTRY
The Cigarette Century
Allan Brandt
The Last Tycoons
William D. Cohan
Oil on the Brain
Lisa Margonelli
ZOOM
Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
INNOVATION/ CREATIVITY
The Clean Tech Revolution
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
Group Genius
Keith Sawyer
Innovate Like Edison
Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott
Innovation Nation
John Kao
LEADERSHIP
Judgment
Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis
Know-How
Ram Charan
The Opposable Mind
Roger L. Martin
The Secret Language of Leadership
Stephen Denning
NEW PERSPECTIVES
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Everything is Miscellaneous
David Weinberger
In Spite of the Gods
Edward Luce
Leading From Within
Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner
PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
Chip Conley
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Art of Woo
G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa
The Dip
Seth Godin
The Power of Story
Jim Loehr
Responsibility at Work
Howard Gardner
Strengths Finder 2.0
Tom Rath
SALES
Little Green Book of Getting Your Way
Jeffrey Gitomer
The Perfect Salesforce
Derek Gatehouse
The Ultimate Sales Machine
Chet Holmes
Best of luck to those in the running. And thanks for all your submissions. We'll see you back here in mid-January.