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Leadership & Management
Winner
2023
Right Kind of Wrong
Amy Edmondson
Shortlist
2023
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Shortlist
2021
The Aristocracy of Talent
Adrian Wooldridge
Shortlist
2021
The Conversation
Robert Livingston
Shortlist
2020
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Shortlist
2019
Kochland
Christopher Leonard
Shortlist
2019
Range
David Epstein
Shortlist
2018
New Power
Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
Shortlist
2018
The Billlionaire Raj
James Crabtree
Shortlist
2017
Reset
Ellen Pao
Shortlist
2016
The 100-Year Life
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
Shortlist
2016
What Works
Iris Bohnet
Shortlist
2015
Unfinished Business
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Shortlist
2014
Creativity, Inc
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Shortlist
2013
Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg
Shortlist
2013
The Billionaire's Apprentice
Anita Raghavan
Shortlist
2011
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Shortlist
2011
Wilful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan
Shortlist
2010
The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar
Shortlist
2009
Good Value
Stephen Green
Shortlist
2005
Fast Second
Constantinos Markides, Paul Geroski
Longlist
2022
Power Failure
William D. Cohan
Longlist
2022
Talent
Daniel Gross and Tyler Cowen
Longlist
2021
Net Positive
Paul Polman, Andrew Winston
Longlist
2021
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
Longlist
2021
Remote Work Revolution
Tsedal Neeley
Longlist
2020
Radical Uncertainty
John Kay, Mervyn King
Longlist
2020
Uncharted
Margaret Heffernan
Longlist
2020
Winning Now, Winning Later
David M. Cote
Longlist
2019
Loonshoots
Safi Bahcall
Longlist
2018
Who is Michael Ovitz?
Michael Ovitz
Longlist
2017
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols
Longlist
2015
Leadership BS
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Longlist
2013
Give and Take
Adam Grant
Longlist
2013
The End of Competitive Advantage
Rita Gunther McGrath
Longlist
2013
The End of Power
Moises Naim
Longlist
2013
The Org
Ray Fisman, Tim Sullivan
Longlist
2012
The End of Leadership
Barbara Kellerman
Longlist
2012
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Longlist
2010
The Lords of Strategy
Walter Kiechel
Longlist
2010
What Works
Hamish McRae
Longlist
2009
Clever
Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones
Longlist
2009
How the Mighty Fall
Jim Collins
Longlist
2009
Supercorp
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Longlist
2008
Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky
Longlist
2008
The Powers to Lead
Joseph Nye
Longlist
2008
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton
Longlist
2007
The Future of Management
Gary Hamel
Longlist
2007
The Halo Effect
Phil Rosenzweig
Longlist
2006
Myself and Other More Important Matters
Charles Handy
Longlist
2006
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You
Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones
Longlist
2005
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management
Sumantra Ghoshal
Longlist
2005
The Resilient Enterprise
Yoshi Sheffi
Longlist
2005
Tough Calls
Dick Martin