2026 Awards – Small Business

Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for 2026 Banner for Entrepreneur Small Business

2026 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Small Business.

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Winner

Go Start Up: Your Best Guide to Unlocking the Values and Culture of Success

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Author:

Karan Kashyap

HOW is this book helping people?

This book shifts the core entrepreneurial mindset away from merely chasing venture capital and refocuses it on building lasting organisational integrity. Rather than treating workplace culture as a superficial corporate buzzword, Go Start Up treats it as a primary business currency required to scale into a resilient company. The book inspires founders to look inward and lead with ethical, value-driven principles.
It empowers innovators to define their own cultural blueprints, ensuring their teams remain deeply aligned as they scale. It helps entrepreneurs to internalise unique frameworks, such as the PPT Networking Method, the A4-STEPs in decisions, and an everyday routine design to sustain founder discipline.
Ultimately, Go Start Up provides an intellectual toolkit to build highly resilient organisations. It challenges founders to focus on long-term legacy over short-term vanity metrics, fostering a healthier, values-driven global start-up ecosystem.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

Execution is the New Intelligence: How Entrepreneurs Think, Adapt, and Thrive in the AI Era

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Author:

V. Michael Santoro

HOW is this book helping people?

Execution Is the New Intelligence helps entrepreneurs navigate rapid technological change with greater confidence, adaptability, and resilience. Rather than encouraging people to compete with AI or become dependent on it, the book shows them how to use technology while strengthening the distinctly human capabilities that create lasting value. Through the Irreplaceability Framework™ and Irreplaceability Index™, readers learn to strengthen judgment, earned authority, relational intelligence, adaptive execution, and self-awareness. These capabilities help entrepreneurs make better decisions, respond constructively to change, build stronger relationships, and turn knowledge into action.

The broader impact is helping people see technological disruption as an opportunity for human development rather than a threat to their relevance. By strengthening the entrepreneur as well as the business, the book provides a practical path toward meaningful work, sustainable success, and lifelong growth.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

The Starting 11: The Leadership Lineup

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Author:

Michael Wiggins

HOW is this book helping people?

The Starting 11 was developed to positively impact others, creating opportunities to teach leadership concepts to students, teachers, coaches, community members and business executives. It has inspired great conversation with invested people seeking ways to be better in how they do their work with others everyday. Each chapter brings out the best in leadership, providing leaders a transformative approach to the work being done everyday. The impact of solid leadership cannot be underestimated and with the strategies provided in The Starting 11, career success for anyone can move forward with confidence. Further, anyone building a business can establish a solid foundation with concepts that will set employees up for success. This is not only a terrific option for personal growth, but The Starting 11 also provides a great option for your team’s collective book club.

Book available for purchase.

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