Finalists Announced for Porchlight Business Book Awards
Porchlight Book Company, formerly 800-CEO-READ, today announced the shortlist for the company’s 14th annual Business Book Awards. The shortlist is:
- The Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year: When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin (Harvard Business Review)
- The Management and Workplace Culture Book of the Year: After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back by Juliet B. Schor (University of California)
- The Marketing and Sales Book of the Year: Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One by Emily Heyward (Portfolio)
- The Innovation and Creativity Book of the Year: The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work by Natalie Nixon (Berrett-Koehler)
- The Personal Development and Human Behavior Book of the Year: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May (Riverhead)
- The Current Events and Public Affairs Book of the Year: Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan (Columbia Global Reports)
- The Narrative and Biography Book of the Year: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask (St. Martin’s)
- The Big Ideas and New Perspectives Book of the Year: The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment by Linda Scott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Porchlight will announce The 2020 Business Book of the Year and the Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry on Thursday, January 14, 2021.