2023 Awards for Business – Problem Solving Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Business Problem Solving

Winner

The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation

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Author:

Mark Graban

How is your book helping others?

This book helps individuals remember that we all make mistakes, but what matters is learning from them. The book shares many stories from incredibly successful people who have succeeded in spite of their mistakes—or, sometimes, because of a mistake. The book also shows leaders how they can cultivate a workplace culture of learning from mistakes, which leads to greater innovation and better results. The book introduces practical concepts and methods readers can use to prevent serious mistakes, while learning from mistakes that inevitably happen. And how to leaders build a culture of "psychological safety," where employees feel safe to admit mistakes, point out problems, and test new ideas.

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Risk-Free Innovation: 10 Ways to Manage Uncertainty

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Author:

Thomas D. Kuczmarski

Co-Authors:

Jacob T. Sherman

How is your book helping others?

Innovation is essential for survival. Risk-Free Innovation: 10 Ways to Manage Uncertainty offers innovators of all kinds the insights required to survive and thrive in today’s competitive market. Authors Thomas Kuczmarski and Jacob Sherman wrote this book to create a safer way to innovate. Their commitment to educating, connecting, and celebrating innovators in the Chicago area is reflected in the insights gathered in Risk-Free Innovation. Because innovation is intrinsically linked to a company’s success, identifying the ten most effective ways to reduce risk in the process supports those without innovation experience in creating effective strategies and maintaining their organization’s relevance. The emphasis on an accepting workplace culture, the importance of diversity, and building a network of support provides a framework for a more uplifting world for all.

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Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff

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Author:

Aytekin Tank

How is your book helping others?

In Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Jotform Aytekin Tank delivers a can’t-miss blueprint to help you make the most of your most precious asset: time. You’ll explore what’s possible when you offload repetitive tasks, why automation has democratized innovation, and how you can use cheap―or even completely free―no-code automation tools to transform your ability to focus on what truly matters in your business and life.

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Your Company Is Your Castle: Proven Methods for Building a Resilient Business

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Author:

Sandeep Chennakeshu

How is your book helping others?

By delving into the intricacies of leadership, the book cultivates essential skills like effective communication, strategic decision-making, and fostering innovation. It not only equips readers with the tools to navigate complex corporate landscapes but also emphasizes the significance of ethical leadership, promoting a culture of integrity and empathy.

Furthermore, the book addresses the evolving dynamics of modern businesses, from startups to established enterprises, adapting to changing paradigms such as remote work and digital transformation. This adaptability resonates deeply with readers striving to excel in today's fast-paced world.

Through real-world examples, interactive exercises, and compelling anecdotes, my book stimulates self-discovery and personal growth. It's a guiding light for aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs, driving them to reshape their approaches, make meaningful contributions, and ultimately change lives within their organizations and beyond.

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The Sales Professional's Survival Guide: A Blueprint for Tactical Prospecting

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Author:

Mike LaRusso

How is your book helping others?

The Sales Professional's Survival Guide is a textbook that provides an in-depth tutorial on Tactical Prospecting and the Alliance Prospecting Process. But more, it uses true-to-life experiences and supporting analytics to blow up the common prospecting myths and stands on the side of the sales professionals by providing much needed alternative methods to hunt for new business.

The Sales Professional's Survival Guide reveals:

Why Sales Professionals are being forced to prospect for new business in ways that are destined to fail.
Why Sales Professionals face prospecting obstacles imposed upon them by others.
Why Sales Professionals need new prospecting methods that aren't controlled by endless processes.
The Sales Professional's Survival Guide teaches:

How to gain the most sought-after reward in sales-selling new business.
How to employ prospecting methods, tactically with extremely high success rates.
How to make natural born salespeople out of trained ones.

2023 Awards for Business – Real Estate Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Business Real Estate

2023 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Real Estate Business books.

Business - Real Estate

Winner

The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor: How to Reach Financial Freedom with Fewer Rental Properties

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Author:

Chad Carson

How is your book helping others?

You don’t need to build a massive real estate empire to achieve financial freedom, and you don’t have to sacrifice what matters to build wealth. Rather than chasing a goalpost that always moves, a small and mighty investor keeps their strategy simple to maximize flexibility and build the life they want.

Chad Carson (aka Coach Carson) intentionally built a small rental property portfolio to give his family full financial independence while requiring less than two hours per week of his time. In this book, he shares practical, step-by-step strategies for real estate investors who want more freedom, not another job. Whether you're new to real estate or hoping to downsize, this practical guide will show you a simpler, safer, and faster path to building cash flow with rental properties—so you can get out of the financial grind and do more of what matters in your life.

Business - Real Estate

Winner

Real Estate Rookie: 90 Days to Your First Investment

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Author:

Ashley Kehr

How is your book helping others?

Your first investment property will no doubt be the hardest. Even choosing an investing strategy and coming up with a plan can seem impossible. Then you add in finding the right market, conducting property analysis, and the many facets of funding—and you’ve got yourself a classic case of analysis paralysis!
At 26 years old, Ashley Kehr was normal—she worked a W-2, had debt, and planned on living paycheck to paycheck until retirement. All that changed when she bought her first duplex and started her path to financial independence. Now, less than a decade later, she manages a portfolio of more than 30 properties with complete financial freedom.
With this book, you’ll be able to transform even faster. In fact, within 90 days, you could already own your first real estate property. Ashley has helped thousands achieve real estate success, including listeners of the BiggerPockets Real Estate Rookie podcast and attendees of the Real Estate Rookie Bootcamp.

2023 Awards for Business – Thought Leader Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Business Thought Leader

2023 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Business - Thought Leader

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The Leadership Pause: Sharpen Your Attention, Deepen Your Presence, and Navigate the Future

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Author:

Chris L. Johnson

How is your book helping others?

This book is for anyone looking to deepen their impact on the lives around them, leave a profound mark on their organizations, and build a legacy of intentional focus, pragmatic ambition, grounded compassion, and empathy-in-action.

The Leadership Pause shows how to quiet the noise of the daily hustle so you can hear the still-small voice of purposeful curiosity that lives within you, which breeds wisdom in both work and life.

The Leadership Pause teaches the gift of mindful awareness that leads to clarity of mind and heart, reduced stress, and increased resilience;
a deeper connection to self;
and a clearer vision of the natural leader resting just beneath the surface.

Johnson shares stories from established and powerful leaders about how they’ve used pause practices to transform their previous strategies and ways of thinking and behaving to find greater meaning and purpose in their work.

Business - Thought Leader

Winner

A Bridge Not Too Far: Where Creativity Meets Innovation

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Author:

Deepak Ohri

How is your book helping others?

A Bridge Not Too Far - Where Creativity Meets Innovation, charts Deepak Ohri's rise from the humble-yet-educational streets of New Delhi to the heights of the global luxury business, and is a lesson in instinct, acumen, resilience and hard-won success. In it, Ohri provides a deeply human-centered approach to managing business and life, sharing his insights and expertise on how to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship and the hospitality industry. Ohri provides invaluable lessons and practical tips for anyone seeking to achieve similar success.

With a focus on the importance of creativity and innovation, A Bridge Not Too Far is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs, offering actionable strategies for achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and climbing to the top. Whether you are just starting or looking to take your business to the next level, this book is an essential read for anyone looking to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship.

Business - Thought Leader

Winner

The Art of Active Listening: How People at Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood

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Author:

Heather R Younger

How is your book helping others?

Improve communication, engagement, and culture with active listening.

When employees, colleagues, and customers are not being heard, organizational culture, employee happiness, and overall organizational success will suffer. How well do you listen?

Active listening is the doorway to increased belonging, loyalty, profitability, innovation, and so much more. It is the difference between thinking we understand what people want and knowing what they want. Want to build stronger relationships, avoid misunderstandings, and anticipate problems before they surface at work?

All you have to do is listen.

The Art of Active Listening introduces a 5-step framework that shows you how to listen successfully and act upon what you are hearing. Readers will discover how to:

Recognize the unsaid
Seek to understand
Decode
Act
Close the loop

Backed by her personal review of over 30,000 employee and customer surveys and facilitation of 100’s of focus groups, Younger discovered on

Business - Thought Leader

Finalist

The Doctor's Voice: Empowering Solutions to Physicians' Frustrations, Burnout and Healthcare Inefficiencies

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Author:

Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli

How is your book helping others?

Doctors leaving the medical profession is a global problem that can no longer be ignored. In the Doctor's Voice author Dr Garbelli unveils the common sources of physicians' frustrations and reveals solutions that can be adopted at an individual, organisational and national level.

Business - Thought Leader

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Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your B2B Business Faster

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Author:

Louis Gudema

How is your book helping others?

People in many B2B industries need to reach their potential customers, but are overwhelmed with the claims of 10,000+ martech vendors and proponents of the dozens of marketing channels. They also suffer from "short-termism", and don't dedicate enough resources to building their brands. As a result, many companies either don't grow as fast as they could (producing fewer jobs than they might) or fail entirely (leading to bankruptcy and layoffs). Companies in important industries like sustainability and climate tech especially suffer from these failures. Using the book's Bullseye Marketing framework, and its hundreds of tips, examples, and best practices, companies are much more likely to have marketing and business success.

Business - Thought Leader

Finalist

Venus Genius: The Female Prescription for Innovation

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Author:

Fabienne Jacquet

How is your book helping others?

Innovation is not the preserve of men. In fact, anyone of any gender identity can be an innovator, with passion, hard work and persistence.
Venus Genius provides a practical formula - literally, as the author is a chemist with a ground-breaking corporate career in research and development as a woman for several decades – to develop successful innovations in business by tapping into the feminine traits essential to serving the rapidly growing female market and sustainably increasing the bottom line.
Recognizing that both the masculine and feminine traits are essential to innovation, the author - who also has experience in marketing and business - provides tools to embrace and develop skills attributed to the feminine side for a greater outcome in innovation, business, and life.
Readers of this book will be empowered to dare to express their unique creative skills to contribute to a more significant future for our world.

2023 Awards for Business – Travel and Hospitality Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Business Travel and Hospitality

2023 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Business - Travel and Hospitality

Winner

Leading Travel and Tourism Retail: How Businesses Can Sustainably Capture New Profits in Shopping Tourism

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Author:

Sacha Zackariya

How is your book helping others?

Sacha Zackariya wrote "Leading Travel & Tourism Retail" to help retailers overcome their most difficult trading period and get them back on track.

Sacha wanted to provide decision-makers with an understanding of new consumer drivers, risks and opportunities post-pandemic, which has also recalibrated personal values and changed the way people travel and shop.

Since publication, this book has been read by retail and travel leaders and academics. Very little is written about this market, and it is the first book to help leaders navigate through both macro and micro issues, including climate change, policy changes and other political and economic factors.

In writing the book, 23,008 surveys, 500 interviews with international tourists, 1,000 articles & academic papers reviewed, and interviews with more than 40 key people, such as politicians, labour unions, and leaders from LVMH, Harrods & Global Blue, showed the significance of this market to the global economy.

Business - Travel and Hospitality

Finalist

A Bridge Not Too Far: Where Creativity Meets Innovation

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Author:

Deepak Ohri

How is your book helping others?

A Bridge Not Too Far - Where Creativity Meets Innovation, charts Deepak Ohri's rise from the humble-yet-educational streets of New Delhi to the heights of the global luxury business, and is a lesson in instinct, acumen, resilience and hard-won success. In it, Ohri provides a deeply human-centered approach to managing business and life, sharing his insights and expertise on how to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship and the hospitality industry. Ohri provides invaluable lessons and practical tips for anyone seeking to achieve similar success.

With a focus on the importance of creativity and innovation, A Bridge Not Too Far is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs, offering actionable strategies for achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and climbing to the top. Whether you are just starting or looking to take your business to the next level, this book is an essential read for anyone looking to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship.

2023 Awards for Business – Writing and Publishing Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Business Writing and Publishing

2023 best book awarded to authors on the subject of guides for writing and publishing books.

Business - Writing and Publishing

Winner

Getting Published: How to hook an agent, get a deal & build a career you love

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Author:

Harry Bingham

How is your book helping others?

Your complete guide to getting published. Includes absolutely everything you need to know about how to prepare your manuscript, get an agent, sign a contract, manage the publishing process and market your work.

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How To Successfully Self-Publish A Book On Amazon & Audible: How To Build A Profitable Self-Publishing Business

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Author:

Richard Abbott

How is your book helping others?

This book takes you from A-Z on KDP for high-content publishing, from showing you how to outsource the content of your book to running your ads and maintaining them well, all will be covered.
Audiobooks are my favorite income stream as the revenue we earn from our books is totally passive! Simply upload the audio files for your book onto ACX and watch your book make royalties for months and years to come! The audiobook section of this book will show you how to find profitable keywords, find narrators at an affordable rate, how to bundle up your audiobooks to give you the greatest chance of success in this industry and many more important and valuable lessons.