And the Winners Are...
December 09, 2014
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards category winners (and shortlist for the best book of the year) 2014.
It was a difficult decision in each and every category, but decisions have been made, and the eight category winners of the 2014 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards are:
- Leadership & Management: The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation by Josh Linkner, Jossey-Bass
- Entrepreneurship: The Responsible Entrepreneur: Four Game-Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders, and Impact Investors by Carol Sanford, Jossey-Bass
- Finance & Economics: How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class by John Hope Bryant, Berrett-Koehler
- Marketing: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, Portfolio
- Sales: UnSelling: The New Customer Experience by Scott Stratten and Alison Kramer, Wiley
- Personal Development: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, Crown Business
- Innovation & Creativity: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster
- General Business: The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael S. Malone, HarperBusiness
We will announce the overall Business Book of the Year (one of the eight books above) at the company’s awards ceremony and business book industry gathering on Thursday, January 8th at the The 13th Step in New York City. We will also announce the inaugural winner of The Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry, named after our founder and president who retired in June, and given to a person in the business book publishing industry who best represents his innovations within and impact on business book publishing and selling.
We'll let you know in a month which of these great books we think is the best of the the year.
