Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Business Book Of The Year awards 2007

I have just read this year's nomination's to FT and Goldman Sachs Business Book Of The Year Award. Some of the positions seem really interesting. Two of them have already landed in my amazon shopping cart. So who are the nominees this year?
  • The Age of Turbulence, by Alan Greenspan - live and times of Allan Greenspan
  • The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book on how we underestimate the risk of highly improbable events
  • Immigrants, by Philippe Legrain - touching one of the most emotive subjects in recent times (already in my shopping cart)
  • The Last Tycoons, William D Cohan - story on the rise of Lazard Frere's investment bank
  • Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams - Book on how internet collaboration leads to better content/products/services (already in my shopping cart)
  • Zoom, by Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran - book on challenges faced by big oil and car making companies in developing new fuels and technologies.
It looks like the choice is not easy at all. The winner will be announced on 25 of October and will snatch a prize of £30000.

Today's FT also mentions a list of evergreen all time favorites:
  • Good To Great by Jim Collins (somehow I did not like this one at all!)
  • The Effective executive by Peter Drucker
  • The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
  • Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Heylar
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (How many times I wanted to read this one at the Uni but never got round to it???)
I am really curious what do you think about those books. Maybe you know of any that should be there but were not nominated? Please let us know in comments section.

Here are some links which you can helpful:
FT article on Business book awards click here
2006 finalists - click here
2005 finalists - click here



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