Wohoo! Heretics Guide has won an award
Hi all
This might count as the winner of the cleverworkarounds “Most enjoyable blog post ever” award. This is because the book I wrote with Kailash Awati has won a medal at the 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards. The Heretics Guide to Best Practices has taken out the bronze medal in the category of Operations Management/Lean/Continuous Improvement. As you can imagine, we are completely thrilled and stoked about winning this, especially as we are first time writers with such awesome competition (there were 381 books entered into these awards).
In case you are wondering what the Axiom awards are all about, they are the largest and most respected critical guidepost for business books. From the site:
These prestigious and competitive awards are presented in 21 business categories and serve as the premier list to help readers discover new and innovative works.
The Axiom Book Awards are the go-to list connecting readers with high-quality, cutting edge, business books that provide information and ideas critical to success in today’s competitive market place. Today’s consumers want to learn about, shop for, and buy books beyond the model of traditional writing and publishing. Today’s world of business publishing gets new ideas and trends to readers faster and more economically. With Axiom Business Book Awards, you know you will be buying the best, cutting-edge business books
There is an awards ceremony on June 4th, on the eve of BookExpo America in New York. Methinks I will be heading back to US shores after all!
So beers are on us for today!
Thanks for reading
Paul
p.s The world needs more heresy. I would be grateful if readers of the blog would be up for a little love on twitter today and help us spread the word!
Hey Paul
Congrats on the medal for your book. (It’s on my list of “to reads”)
Also nice work on your presentations at the recent SharePoint Conference in Melbourne.
Nice work!
I’m not the least bit surprised Paul and Kailash – Congratulations! The book is fabulously done; geeky enough to be taken seriously but at the same time accessible to the rest of us (however I was feeling rather geeky by the end by the simple fact that I had enjoyed it so much!) As you know I am a fan of Clever Workarounds (and Eight to Late), lurking about for years. The book really ties it all together. I’m happy I stumbled upon this announcement tonight to see you are getting Kudos from the greater business community. You both certainly deserve it!