Marr wins hat-trick of prizes at Business Book Awards

Bernard Marr has picked up three awards at the annual Business Book Awards, including the top prize of Business Book of the Year.

The awards spotlight the best business books published in 2021, and include titles that are traditionally published, presented in hybrid formats or self-published. This year half the winning books were authored by women, a statistic that has been improving as the awards seeks to improve its gender balance. 

After whittling down 300 entries from around the world into 116, a panel of judges picked out the most outstanding from 14 different categories.

Marr’s Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Technologies that are Redefining Organizations (Wiley) won the Change & Sustainability award and the overall prize, while his Extended Reality in Practice (Wiley) won the Specialist Book category. 

“I’m so excited and incredibly humbled to win the Business Book of the Year 2022 award among so many amazing entries,” he said. “I would like to thank the organisers and sponsors of the awards and everyone involved in creating the book, especially the amazing team at Wiley. It’s so wonderful to get recognition for something I am so passionate about: sharing my ideas and experiences about future trends in business and technology.”

The winners were announced at a gala dinner in London this week.

Founder of the awards Lucy McCarraher said: “This year is the fifth anniversary of the Business Book Awards and a significant milestone in that everything has doubled in scale since we started. We had 300 entries in 14 categories – up from 150 entries in six categories in year one. Our judging panel has doubled to 40 experts in business, writing and publishing and they shortlisted books by exactly 58 female and 58 male authors, giving us perfect gender parity! The winners and highly commended books this year have been of a stunningly high standard and we have never before had an author win two categories (with two different books) and the Business Book of the Year. Many congratulations to Bernard Marr, and all the other winners!”

The winners in full

Business Book of the Year
Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Technologies that are Redefining Organizations  by Bernard Marr (Wiley)

Start-Up / Scale-Up 
The Money Train – 10 Things Young Business Need to Know about Investors by David Pattison (Practical Inspiration Publishing)

Sales & Marketing 
Marketing Strategy – Overcome Common Pitfalls and Create Effective Marketing by Jenna Tiffany (Kogan Page)

People Culture & Management
Dark Social – Understanding the Darker Side of Work, Personality and Social Media by Ian MacRae (Bloomsbury Business)

Change & Sustainability
Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Technologies that are Redefining Organizations by Bernard Marr (Wiley)

Leadership
You Lead – How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader by Minter Dial (Kogan Page)

Work & Life
The Crazy Busy Cure – A productivity book for people who people who don’t have time to read productivity books by Zena Everett (Nicholas Brealey Publishing) 

Business Self-development 
The Listening Shift – Transform Your Organization by Listening to Your People and Helping Your People Listen to You by Janie Van Hool (Practical Inspiration Publishing)

Wellness & Wellbeing
Stop – The Calmer Way to Future-Proof Your Career and Wellbeing by Sarah Sparks (Known Publishing)

Short Business Book
Forget the First Million – Detox Your Approach to Finance Build a Better Business by Lucy Cohen (Elite Publishing Academy)

Specialist Book
Extended Reality in Practice – 100+ Amazing Ways Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality are Changing Business and Society by Bernard Marr (Wiley)

Diversity, Inclusion & Equality
Neurodiversity at Work – Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith (Kogan Page)

Business Journey
Ahead of Her Time – How a One-Woman Startup Became a Global Publishing Brand by Judy Piatkus (Watkins Publishing)

Smart Thinking
The Scout Mindset – Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef (Piatkus)

International Business Book
Ethics in Finance – Case Studies from a Woman’s Life on Wall Street by Kara Tan Bhala (Palgrave Macmillan)