800-CEO-READ ANNOUNCES SHORTLIST AND SEMIFINALISTS
By Press Release - Dec 17 , 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2007
CONTACT:
Katie Schutrop
Awards Coordinator
e-mail: katies@800ceoread.com
phone: (414) 274-6406 x122
800-CEO-READ ANNOUNCES SHORTLIST AND SEMIFINALISTS FOR THE
2007 BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS
Milwaukee…800-CEO-READ announced the shortlist and semifinalists for the first annual Best Business Book Awards consisting of titles in the running for being named the best among 13 categories. The list was selected from nearly 300 titles submitted to the 8CR editorial staff and represents the top titles of the year. On January 15, each category will have a selected winner along with one book named as the Best Business Book of 2007.
More details regarding the Book Awards can be found at: www.800ceoread.com/bookawards.
For any questions regarding the awards, please contact Katie Schutrop at katies[at]800ceoread.com or (414) 274-6406 x122
The shortlist for the Best Business Book of 2007 is:
The Dream Manager
by Matthew Kelly, Hyperion
The Last Tycoons
by William D. Cohan, Doubleday
Made to Stick
by Chip and Dan Heath, Random House
Strengths Finder 2.0
by Tom Rath, Gallup
The category semifinalists are:
ADVERTISING/MARKETING
Firms of Endearment
by Raj Sisodia, Jag Sheth and David B. Wolfe, Wharton School Publishing, 320p,
$27.95
Made To Stick
by Chip and Dan Heath, Random House, 304 p, $24.95
The Marketing Mavens
by Noel Capon, Crown Business, 320p, $27.50
The Soul of the Corporation
by Hamid Bouchikhi and John R. Kimberly, Wharton School Publishing, 256p, $29.99
What’s Your Story?
by Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker, FT Press, 240p, $24.99
BIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS
The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan, Penguin, 544p, $35.00
Bill & Dave
by Michael S. Malone, Portfolio Hardcover, 352p, $26.95
Typo
by David Silverman, Soft Skull Press, 352p, $16.95
Valley Boy
by Tom Perkins, Gotham, 304p, $27.50
ENTREPRENUERSHIP/ SMALL BUSINESS
Be the Elephant
by Steve Kaplan, Workman Publishing Company, 224p, $19.95
The Engine of America
by Hector Barreto, Wiley, 223p, $24.95
My Start-Up Life
by Ben Casnocha, Jossey-Bass, 208p, $24.95
No Man’s Land
by Doug Tatum, Portfolio, 256p, $24.95
There’s a Business in Every Woman
by Ann Holmes, Ballantine Books, 320p, $22.95
FABLES
Don’t Gobble the Marshmallow…Ever!
by Joachim de Posada and Ellen Singer, Berkley, 176p, $19.95
The Dream Manager
by Matthew Kelly, Hyperion, 176p, $19.95
The Janitor
by Todd Hopkins and Ray Hilbert, Thomas Nelson, 160p, $16.99
FINANCE/ECONOMICS
Connected
by Daniel Altman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 287p, $26.00
A Demon of Our Own Design
by Richard Bookstaber, John Wiley & Sons,, 276p, $27.95
The Economic Naturalist
by Robert H. Frank, Basic Books, 226p, $26.00
Grande Expectations
by Karen Blumenthal, Crown Business, 320p, $24.95
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
by John C. Bogle, Wiley, 240p, $19.95
GLOBALIZATION
All the Tea in China
by Jeremy Haft, Portfolio, 224p, $25.95
The Elephant and the Dragon
by Robyn Meredith, W.W. Norton, 256p, $25.95
The Emerging Markets Century
by Antoine van Agtmael, Free Press, 384p, $28.00
The Oil and the Glory
by Steve LeVine, Random House, 496p, $27.95
The Sushi Economy
by Sasha Issenberg, Gotham Books, 352p, $26.00
HUMAN RESOURCES/ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Growing Great Employees
by Erika Andersen, Portfolio, 288p, $24.95
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Harvard Business School Press, 320p, $29.95
One Foot Out the Door
by Judith M. Bardwick, PhD, AMACOM, 226p, $24.95
The Truth About: Hiring the Best
by Cathy Fyock, FT Press, 224p, $18.99
INDUSTRY BOOKS
The Cigarette Century
by Allan Brandt, Basic Books, 600p, $36.00
The Last Tycoons
by William D. Cohan, Doubleday, 752p, $29.95
Oil on the Brain
by Lisa Margonelli, Nan A. Talese, 336p, $26.00
Zoom:
by Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Twelve, 352p, $27.99
INNOVATION/CREATIVITY
The Clean Tech Revolution
by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, Collins, 320p, $25.95
Group Genius
by Keith Sawyer, Perseus, 274p, $26.95
Innovate Like Edison
by Michael Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, Dutton, 320p, $25.95
Innovation Nation
by John Kao, Free Press, 320p, $26.00
LEADERSHIP
Judgment
by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis, Portfolio, 288p, $26.95
Know-How
by Ram Charan, Crown Business, 304p, $27.50
The Opposable Mind
by Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business School Press, 224p, $26.95
The Secret Language of Leadership
by Stephen Denning, Jossey-Bass, 304p, $27.95
NEW PERSPECTIVES
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House, 400p, $26.95
Everything is Miscellaneous
by David Weinberger, Times Books, 288p, $25.00
In Spite of the Gods
by Edward Luce, Doubleday, 400p, $26.00
Leading From Within
by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner, Jossey-Bass, 288p, $19.95
PEAK
by Chip Conley, Jossey-Bass, 288p, $27.95
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Art of Woo
by G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa, Portfolio, 320p, $24.95
The Dip
by Seth Godin, Portfolio, 96p, $12.95
The Power of Story
by Jim Loehr, Free Press, 288p, $25.00
Responsibility at Work
by Howard Gardner, Jossey-Bass, 368p, $27.95
Strengths Finder 2.0
by Tom Rath, Gallup, 192p, $19.95
SALES
Little Green Book of Getting Your Way
by Jefferey Gitomer, FT Press, 300p, $24.99
The Perfect Salesforce
by Derek Gatehouse, Portfolio, 226p, $26.00
The Ultimate Sales Machine
by Chet Holmes, Portfolio, 272p, $24.95
Erika Andersen
Posted on December 17th, 2007
Wow, thanks, guys – I’m honored to be included. And excited!
Warmly,
Erika