Winner
Effective Meetings: Great Results, Less Pain, Every Time.
Chris Fenning
This book not only saves people time every day at work, it also reduces the frustration caused by painful meetings.
Whether the reader is leading a meeting or attending someone else's, they can use this practical, no-fluff guide to making the meeting shorter, more productive, and (dare I say it) less painful. There's even a chance they'll hear the rarest of phrases, “That meeting was actually useful.”
Drawing on experiences from more than 15,000 meetings, this book delivers a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to avoiding the most common meeting problems and fixing things when the meeting goes off track.
Winner
The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success
Angela Jackson
This revolutionary guide aims to revolutionize the workplace for justice, equity, and profitability by handing the reins over to the real drivers of success: the workers.
Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations. Her work has quantified the financial impact investing in people can have on an organization—the first reliable calculation in the literature of talent retention.
Finalist
The Multicultural Mindset
Joycelyn David
In today's fractured business climate, cultural intelligence has emerged as the defining competitive advantage. Marketing innovator Joycelyn David answers this challenge with her groundbreaking new book, "The Multicultural Mindset" published by Advantage Authority. In an era where business success increasingly depends on cross-cultural fluency, discover how to unlock your multicultural intelligence (MQ), transcend cultural barriers, and forge authentic connections across diverse markets and teams.
Finalist
deComplify: How Simplicity Drives Stability, Innovation, and Transformation
Gary S Michel
The concept behind deComplify is to simplify: Overcome the human fascination with complicating nearly everything in business in the pursuit of making a great company. Great companies are places people want to work, buy from, and invest in. deComplify is a thought-provoking and action-inciting book that will inspire readers to simplify their approach to business and aspire to greatness for their careers and organizations.
It is a refreshing take on the fundamentals, emphasizing what can be done to create a better business. It empowers leaders to take concrete steps toward building a great company. Beyond the tools and practical tips, readers will take away a renewed sense of purpose and vision for their organization and themselves, which will define the difference they can make.
Gary S. Michel shares rich lessons, insights, and tools to deComplify business. Gary introduces the concept of process debt and illustrates how reactive shortcuts create lon