Financial Times: Business Book of the Year 2008

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Business Book of the Year 2008 Winner

Mohamed El-Erian today won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2008 for When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change, a timely alert to the fundamental changes taking place in today’s global economic and financial systems – and a call to action for investors who may fall victim to misinterpreting important signals, published by McGraw-Hill.

1. When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies For The Age Of Global Economic Changeby Mohamed El-erian by Mohamed El-Erian
   
   
   (business books)
   
   "A “lucid and prescient” explanation of the credit crisis, and how to survive it, has won the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
   
   When Markets Collide by Mohamed El-Erian was described by Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman’s chairman and chief executive and one of the judges, as “extremely accessible and compelling”.
   
   Mr El-Erian is a co-chief executive of PIMCO, the world’s biggest bond fund manager.
   
   While most pundits dismiss conflicting messages about the economy and the markets as ‘noise’, Mr El-Erian argues that they signal deep, structural changes and realignments that are radically redefining the investment game.
   
   “When Markets Collide” brings readers up to speed on the new economic and investing landscape – its challenges and risks."
   
   


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Business Book of the Year 2008 Finnalist

1. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Has Shaped The World From Prehistory To The Present By William Bernstein
   
   
   (economics, business books, nonfiction)
   
   "A Splendid Exchange sets out to establish just what drove early man to trade and to examine its profound influence on the world we know today. Mr Bernstein, an expert on Modern Portfolio Theory and author of several self-help finance books, suggests that an analysis of the history of trade might teach us about how to avoid seemingly new anxieties about globalisation and the flattening of the world."
   
   


2. Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle For A Global Industryby Tim Bouquet And Byron Ousey by Byron Ousey
   
   
   (business books, children books, IT books, food and cooking, health, history, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, parenting, religion and spirituality, romance, science, teens)
   
   "Cold Steel presents the story of the 2006 takeover of Arcelor, a venerated European steel company, by Lakshmi Mittal, a Calcutta-born industrialist who rose from humble beginnings to become the world’s fourth-richest man.
   
   Mr Bouquet, a journalist and contributor to the Telegraph magazine, and Mr Ousey, a managing director at Gavin Anderson, an international financial public relations consultancy, take readers inside the battle that sent shockwaves through the political corridors of Europe and transformed the global steel industry."
   
   


3. Mcmafia: Crime Without Frontiersby Misha Glenny by Misha Glenny
   
   
   (business books, children books, IT books, food and cooking, health, history, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, parenting, religion and spirituality, romance, science, teens)
   
   "For three years, Mr Glenny, a distinguished journalist who has worked for The Guardian and the BBC, recorded the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada and other criminal enterprises. Together those experiences build a breathtaking picture of the shadow economy that may now account for up to 20 per cent of the world’s GDP."
   
   


4. Remix: Making Art And Commerce Thrive In The Hybrid Economyby Lawrence Lessig by Lawrence Lessig
   
   
   (business books)
   
   "America’s copyright laws were designed to protect artists’ creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works.
   
   But now, new technologies have made it easy to flout these laws and ensured that some of today’s most talented artists are felons. They burn copyrighted CDs, ‘bite’ riffs from films and videos and make new art from them.
   
   Mr Lessig, a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society, shows how we can and must embrace a ‘read-write culture,’ which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it."
   
   


5. The Snowball: Warren Buffett And The Business Of Lifeby Alice Schroeder by Alice Schroeder
   
   
   
   
   "‘The Snowball’ recounts the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world - Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but he allowed Ms Schroeder to explore directly with him - and with those closest to him - his work opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies and wisdom.
   
   Ms Schroeder, an insurance industry analyst and one time managing director at Morgan Stanley, gives new insights into Buffett’s character and life, distilling the principles and philosophies that have guided him on a path to extraordinary success and esteem. "
   
   


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Financial Times: Business Book of the Year 2005

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Business Book of the Year 2005 Winner

Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, an exuberant account of the challenges and benefits of globalisation, has won the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

1. The World Is Flat: A Brief History Of The Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
   
   
   (history, nonfiction, science)
   
   "In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
   
   Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. He is the author of three best-selling books: From Beiruit to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction and still considered to be the definitive work on the Middle East, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (FSG, 1999), and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (FSG, 2002). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family."
   
   


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Business Book of the Year 2005 Finnalist

1. Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner
   
   
   (economics, business books, nonfiction, science)
   
   "Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world."
   
   


2. The Travels Of A T-shirt In The Global Economy: An Economist Examines The Markets, Power, And Politics Of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
   
   
   
   
   "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory to a used clothing market in Africa, to investigate compelling questions about the politics, economics, ethics, and history of modern business and globalization. Using the story of the t-shirt to illustrate the major issues of the globalization debate, this uniquely entertaining business book offers a surprising, enlightening, and balanced look at one of the major topics of our time"
   
   


3. Disneywar: The Battle For The Magic Kingdom by James B. Stewart
   
   
   (business books, children books, IT books, food and cooking, health, history, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, parenting, religion and spirituality, romance, science, teens)
   
   "DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war, told by one of our most acclaimed writers and reporters.
   
   Stewart describes how Eisner lost his chairmanship and why he felt obliged to resign as CEO, effective 2006. No other book so thoroughly penetrates the secretive world of the corporate boardroom. DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America's most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them.
   
   DisneyWar is an epic achievement. It tells a story that -- in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax -- might itself have been the subject of a Disney animated classic -- except that it's all true.
   
   James B. Stewart is the author of Heart of a Soldier, the bestselling Blind Eye and Blood Sport, and the blockbuster Den of Thieves. A former Page-One editor at The Wall Street Journal, Stewart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. He is a regular contributor to SmartMoney and The New Yorker. He lives in New York"
   
   


4. The Search: How Google And Its Rivals Rewrote The Rules Of Business And Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
   
   
   (communications, business books, IT books)
   
   "For anyone who wants to understand how Google really succeeded -- and the implications of a world in which every click can be preserved forever -- THE SEARCH is an eye-opening and indispensable read.
   
   John Battelle is a cofounding editor of Wired and the founder of The Industry Standard, as well as TheStandard.com. He is currently program chair for the Web 2.0 conference, a columnist for Business 2.0, and the founder, chairman, and publisher of Federated Media Publishing, Inc. "
   
   


5. Fast Second : How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation To Enter And Dominate New Markets by Paul A. Geroski
   
   
   (leadership, management / leadership, business books, science)
   
   "Discover why being a "fast second" is often more financially rewarding than being at the cutting edge.
   
   If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Not necessarily! The skill-sets of most established companies, say strategy experts Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski, are far better suited to scaling up newly created markets pioneered by others (in other words, being "fast seconds") than to creating these markets from scratch. In Fast Second, they explore the characteristics of new markets, describe the skills needed to create and compete in them, and show how these skills match up with different types of companies. Drawing on examples of successful fast-second firms such as Microsoft, Amazon, Canon, JVC, Heinz, and many others, they illustrate how to determine which new markets have the potential to be successful and how to move into them before the competition does, when to make a move into a new market, how to scale up a market, where to position a company in the market, and whether to be a colonizer or a consolidator"
   
   


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Financial Times: Business Book of the Year 2006

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Business Book of the Year 2006 Winner

A “gripping” exploration of the economic and business implications of China’s breakneck growth, China Shakes the World, has won the 2006 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award.

1. China Shakes The World by James Kynge
   
   
   (economics, business books, history, nonfiction)
   
   "The critics said: ‘Travels to Germany, Italy and America to talk to communities forced into change as a result of China’s rise. He also weaves in stories of Chinese entrepreneurs who disobeyed national edicts.’ (The Economist)"
   
   


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Business Book of the Year 2006 Finnalist

1. The Long Tail: Why The Future Of Business Is Selling Less Of More by Chris Anderson
   
   
   (economics, business books, IT books)
   
   "The critics said: ‘Anderson has a “theory of everything”. This turns out to be a theory of entertainment, books and the media in general but it is a very good theory, as far as it goes.’ (Financial Times)"
   
   


2. Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead Of Big by Bo Burlingham
   
   
   (business books, leadership, management / leadership)
   
   "The critics said: ‘Champions the unusual proposition that privately held companies should resist expansion. It celebrates American small-town cosiness as embodied in corporate form but its quietly subversive message is relevant to entrepreneurs everywhere.’ (FT)"
   
   


3. The Wal-mart Effect by Charles Fishman
   
   
   (business books, children books, IT books, food and cooking, health, history, literature and fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, parenting, religion and spirituality, romance, science, teens)
   
   "The critics said: ‘Opts for a personal approach, sitting with the?supplier?who went broke because Wal-Mart forced prices down,and makes interesting points such as the observation that “Wal-Mart?isn’t subject to market forces because it’s creating them.’ ” (FT)"
   
   


4. The Box: How The Shipping Container Made The World Smaller And The World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
   
   
   (economics, business books)
   
   "The critics said: ‘Levinson makes a strong case that it was McLean’s thinking that led to modern-day containerisation . . . Without the container, there would be no globalisation.’ (The Economist)"
   
   


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