The Financial Times and Schroders announced Thursday the shortlist for the 2023 Business Book of the Year Award.
Now in its nineteenth year, the award recognizes a book which provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.”
This year’s shortlisted books, selected by the nine distinguished judges (see below) are:
- “Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future” by Ed Conway, WH Allen (UK), Alfred A. Knopf (US)
- “Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive” by Amy Edmondson, Cornerstone Press (UK), Atria (US)
- “How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration” by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, Macmillan (UK), Currency (US)
- “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster (UK & US)
- “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives” by Siddharth Kara, St Martin’s Press (UK & US)
- “The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma” by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, The Bodley Head (UK), Crown (US)
FT editor Roula Khalaf said: “This year’s shortlist covers some of the biggest issues of our time – from the advance of artificial intelligence to the relentless pressure on natural resources – in books that are exceptionally well researched and reported. Selecting finalists from a strong longlist was hard, but the judges have picked six exciting, engaging, and important titles that together provide a highly readable guide to the future of business.”
