Sep 22, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
Congratulations on your gold book award!
Synopsis
The Hard Truth
Nearly every HR leader tells me the same thing when they call, “We don’t think we have a problem. We just want an outside perspective.”
And every single time, they’re shocked by what we uncover. Pay inequity isn’t usually malicious. It grows quietly through outdated policies, negotiation disparities, lack of transparency, and unconscious bias. Over time, those small gaps become massive divides.
I’ve worked with organizations ranging from thirty employees to fifteen thousand, and every one of them had pay equity issues. But here’s the hopeful part: equity can be achieved.
This book offers a clear path forward—combining real-world experience, practical strategies, and proven frameworks to help organizations close wage gaps, comply with evolving laws, and build cultures rooted in fairness.
Equity isn’t a spreadsheet exercise. It’s a commitment. And it matters—to your people, your company, and society as a whole.
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Author Bio
David Weaver is an award-winning author of the bestselling business book Pay Matters: The Art and Science of Employee Compensation, the new book Equal Pay Matters: Closing the Wage Gap to Achieve Pay Equity, and the children’s book Pay Matters to Kids. He is the Founder of the Compensation and HR Group, an Instructor at the Compensation Analyst Academy, and the Executive Director of the Pay Matters Foundation, which is an independent and private nonprofit organization dedicated to providing people with knowledge about pay.
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Sep 21, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
Congratulations on your silver book award!
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The Hidden Currency of Today’s Power
What separates resilient leaders and high‑performing teams from the rest?
• Not technology.
• Not process.
• Something far more foundational—and far more often overlooked: trust.
Trust has become more than a leadership ideal. It has become the driving power behind organizational and individual success. Organizations that operationalize trust as a strategic asset outperform those that simply treat it as a talking point.
In Win Via Trust, you will find clear insights and practical direction that will meaningfully elevate your leadership—wherever you are in your leadership journey.
From closing deals, developing high-potential employees, managing crisis, optimizing remote work, and incorporating AI, this book crystallizes what you need to know as a leader and provides real-world advice you can apply immediately.
The Trustworthy Decision Matrix, a simple 2×2 decision-making tool, helps you determine whether a situation is trustworthy or not and assign resources appropriately.
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Author Bio
Michael Rabinowitz is a life sciences executive who has spent over thirty years in large pharmaceutical companies (over 100,000 employees) and small biotech startups (fewer than twenty-five employees). He has held C-suite and other leadership roles in strategy, marketing, sales, finance, and business development functions in the US and globally. Within those roles, Michael has successfully launched billion-dollar products, turned around struggling businesses, developed innovative programs to educate medical professionals and improve patient care, and partnered with private and public industry leaders to advance healthcare around the world. Michael currently advises biotech CEOs in strategy and partnering as Principal of Intelluvia LLC. He has been the keynote speaker and invited guest at conferences and other events in several countries, typically focusing on leadership and business strategy. Michael holds an MBA from The Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, and a BA summa cum laude from Northwestern University. He has also participated in executive healthcare programs at the Harvard Business School of Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Michael is married with three children.
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Sep 16, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
Congratulations on your bronze book award!
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Drawn from the weekly Monday Morning Radio podcast, this powerful anthology features 21 top thinkers offering more than 100 actionable insights you can apply immediately – whether you’re leading a team, building a company, or navigating your next business decision.
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Maxwell Rotbart is an educator, historian, and award-winning author who specializes in transforming complex ideas into compelling, accessible narratives.
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Aug 25, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
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Synopsis
Money laundering is as old as money itself – and yet the laws designed to prevent it are as ineffective as they have ever been.
Today’s anti-money laundering laws stop only a staggering 0.05 per cent of global illicit financial flows, while significantly increasing the regulatory burden on legitimate businesses and consumers. Fraudsters and criminals stay several steps ahead of regulators, while it often costs governments more to execute forfeitures than they reap from them. In short, it’s abundantly clear that these laws, though set up with the best of intentions, are not working.
Billions move around the world in cash, gold and other assets every day without a trace. How to Launder Money explains how and why, breaking down in delicious detail the mechanics of money laundering – not to enable wrongdoing but to illuminate it, to showcase the bent levers of finance and how they are pulled. While acknowledging the challenges faced by law enforcement, it also provides concrete recommendations on how to reduce the crime associated with money laundering, empowering readers, professionals and policymakers to recognise vulnerabilities and understand what truly works in the fight against financial crime.
The criminals already know how to launder money; this is, in part, their inside story. This book is for the rest of us, who want to know how the laws that are supposed to protect us are in reality doing more damage than ever before.
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Author Bios
George Cottrell is a Sunday Times bestselling author, financier, and political strategist. Born in 1993 to an aristocratic family and raised in Mustique, he was educated at Malvern College before launching a career in finance in London. In 2014, he entered the world of politics, becoming a key advisor and fundraiser for parties including UKIP, the Brexit Party, and Reform UK, where he has been a close aide to Nigel Farage. Cottrell served time in a U.S. prison after a 2016 conviction for wire fraud related to money-laundering allegations, an experience that informs his insights into financial crime. 3 5 Today, he leads Geostrategy.com, providing international political consulting, while pursuing philanthropy, art collecting, and charitable causes—all proceeds from his books are donated to charity. He is the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller How to Launder Money.
Lawrence Burke Files is a Sunday Times bestselling author and renowned international financial investigator with over 45 years of experience in finance, starting from his 18th birthday. As a due diligence expert and instructor, he has handled high-stakes cases in over 130 countries, recovering laundered assets across six continents, with investigations often valued from $15 million to billions. He has visited more than 100 countries to advise on fraud prevention and recovery, collaborating with forensic reporters and institutions to expose hidden financial flows. 1Files is also the author of the award-winning Due Diligence for the Financial Professional, 2nd edition, and a former director of corporate finance at American National. He is the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller How to Launder Money.
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Aug 21, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money, Science, Math, Politics, Social Sciences
Congratulations on your silver book award!
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What makes a job ethical? Who truly holds power in the workplace? And why does it matter now more than ever?
In Employment Ethics: Redefining the Employer–Employee Relationship, these questions form the foundation for a fresh perspective on modern work. For too long, ethical responsibility has been unfairly placed on workers, while employers—driven by profit and protected by power—often avoid accountability. This book challenges that imbalance by redefining employment as a transactional relationship, not a personal favor or moral crusade.
Drawing from real-world examples, historical context, and foundational principles such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, this book offers a clear, accessible guide to understanding what ethical employment should look like in practice.
Inside, you’ll discover:
● The four core pillars of work ethic—and how they’re often exploited
● Why employers are not inherently leaders—and shouldn’t be treated as such
● The hidden cost of toxic and imbalanced workplace dynamics
● What employer ethics are—their history and why they matter
● Practical tools for evaluating your current employment relationship
Whether you’re a gig worker, office employee, frontline nurse, or engineer,
Employment Ethics empowers you to recognize unethical practices, demand better, and understand your value in any workplace.
Employment ethics is more than just fair wages and inclusion. It is employee well-being, employer legacy, and community sustainability.
Let’s redefine our relationship with work…on our terms.
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Author Bio
Dr. Travis Schachtner’s views on leadership and employment ethics are shaped by decades of hard work and personal experience. Growing up on a family farm in rural Wisconsin, he learned that all work has a basic value that should be respected. His journey in leadership has taken him through various roles in public service, private industry, elected positions, and the military. Dr. Schachtner holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Leadership, as well as a Doctorate in Career and Technical Education Leadership. His approach to leadership is influenced by Maslowian principles and ROL (Romanticization of Leadership) Theory. This approach requires leaders to develop an understanding and work to address the needs of all potential followers so that strong relationships can be created.
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Aug 17, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
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Finally, a book to catapult your career and life. “Kelly Mooney and Katy Mooney offer practical wisdom and infectious optimism; they show us that the path forward isn’t just possible—it’s within our reach.” (Shannon Watts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fired Up.)
UP! is a modern playbook for women who want careers and lives with more meaning, power, and possibilities. No matter if you are starting, stuck, stalled, spinning, or soaring, UP! gives you proven strategies, practical tools, and step-by-step guidance you can use now, not someday.
UP! is organized into six easily digestible parts:
1. Lead Yourself: become more intentional about your career and life
2. Own Your Choices: recognize you have agency over your decisions
3. Find Your Fit: know what fits you before burning out or opting out
4. Think Big(ger): expand your vision of what’s possible
5. Get in the Game: navigate the unwritten rules of the workplace
6. Love Your Life Along the Way: enjoy a personal life while building your career
“Blending heart and strategy in a way that’s rare, UP! helps women design careers and lives that align with who they are–and where they want to go next.” (Ivy Ross, chief design officer of consumer devices at Google).
Importantly, there are no “shoulds” in this book—and that’s intentional. Because there isn’t one path or pace that works for everyone. Your future is unique to you.
By the end of this book, you’ll know what truly matters to you. You’ll walk away with new skills, clear action steps, and a massive boost in confidence. You’ll stop waiting to be noticed or wondering when your life will get better. You’ll start moving—up.
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Author Bios
Kelly Mooney founded Equipt Women to help aspiring women overcome systemic challenges and rise into roles of influence, leadership, and impact. She spent over two decades leading the nation’s largest independent digital agency, guiding Fortune 500 clients through digital transformation. She has authored two additional books, created Get Equipt , a weekly email newsletter, and serves on the boards of public and private companies. She and her husband live in Santa Barbara, California, and have two thriving adult children and one spoiled Yorkie.
Katy Mooney is the cofounder and chief learning officer of Equipt Women. A performance coach and professional development expert, she’s taught thousands of professionals at leading companies in Silicon Valley and beyond. Her career spans law, brand strategy, marketing leadership, entrepreneurship, and coaching—giving her a unique perspective on how to shape a career and life you love. She and her husband live in Santa Barbara, California, with their adorable dog, Sunny.
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Jul 23, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
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Hiring talent is one of the most critical investments CEOs make.
It’s no secret that a company’s biggest asset is its people. Its talent is what will deliver its vision and growth. So how can busy CEOs, founders, and business owners make the best investments in human capital? And how do they consistently win top talent in an extremely competitive and dynamic talent supply environment?
Enter The People Priority. This masterful and comprehensive guide offers a proven strategic and practical blueprint for consistently acquiring top talent to build high-performing teams. Drawing from his vast operating and investing experience across a range of businesses, Rohit Bassi breaks down his acquisition methodology into actionable and modular steps. He explains:
• Why rigor, consistency, and speed are crucial in hiring
• How to gain efficiency in the acquisition process to maximize your time with top candidates
• Why connecting your business strategy with your people needs is the only way to deliver ROI on talent investments
• Why emotional intelligence is a key requirement for both employees and employers
If you’re a CEO, a founder, a business owner, or an executive looking for a proven method for navigating human capital decisions, look no further than this book. The People Priority is the ultimate solution for acquiring top-tier talent to deliver on your company’s strategies to grow and thrive.
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Rohit Bassi is the founder of People Quotient (PQ) a tech enabled organizational excellence firm that helps CEOs, founders, business owners, and leaders build, invest, and scale in their company’s PQ. A global citizen who has lived in seven countries across both hemispheres, Rohit has a deep appreciation for cultural diversity and a lifelong passion for people. He believes people are every organization’s most powerful asset-and that companies win when they consistently invest in their people systems. He believes that just as individuals have EQ and IQ, companies have PQ. The difference is that unlike individual traits that are innate, companies can invest and build their PQ to achieve consistent and sustainable growth. A private equity veteran, an engineer, and a Wharton MBA, Rohit began his career in McKinsey and Company’s private equity practice before becoming both an operator and an investor. He has run, scaled, advised, and sold businesses ranging from small enterprises to those with several hundred million dollars in revenue, and with employee head counts in the thousands across local, national, and international markets. These experiences inspired him to found People Quotient (PQ) and to host the People Quotient podcast, where global CEOs and investors share how they build companies and scale high-performing teams.
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Jun 30, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
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Human Instinct. AI Firepower. Invincible You.
AI isn’t the future—it’s here, reshaping industries, disrupting careers, and rewriting the rules of business. For business leaders and professionals alike, it can feel overwhelming. Yet for those who know how to harness it, AI is the greatest opportunity of our time.
Up, Up, and AI demystifies artificial intelligence— what it really is, what it does best, and how to pair its power with the human instincts machines can’t replace: creativity, intuition, and emotional intelligence.
Written by Luv Tulsidas, founder of Techolution—an award-winning AI consulting company transforming businesses globally—this book delivers enterprise AI strategy drawn from the front lines of innovation. Inside are lessons from delivering real-world AI solutions to some of the world’s most prominent companies, plus some previously untold failures that reveal what a successful human–AI partnership really takes.
Blending powerful strategies, practical tools, and entertaining stories, Up, Up, and AI is your playbook to future-proof your career, empower your team, and lead your business so that you can thrive in the future of work.
The future is here. Hop on. Get ready to rise.
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Luv Tulsidas is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and forever engineer. As the founder and CEO of Techolution, he is pioneering enterprise AI transformation to help businesses leap ahead in the new AI-powered economy. Luv’s journey began on a tiny island in Africa, against all odds he made an improbable leap to an American engineering university—without even finishing high school. That same fearless spirit has defined his career ever since. At Hertz, while still an intern, he led the development of their e-commerce platform from the ground up—growing it into a multibillion-dollar revenue engine. By the age of twenty-five, he was a global director leading hundreds of IT professionals for a Fortune 500 company. After nearly fifteen years in enterprise, he founded Techolution, which skyrocketed to the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing companies within four years. He was later honored by Inc. Best in Business for Innovation, and in 2023, he received the AIConics Award as Techolution was named AI Solution Provider of the Year at the AI Summit in New York. Luv is the author of Failing Fast?—a no-nonsense guide revealing the ten secrets to succeed faster at innovation. In his latest book, Up, Up and AI, he delivers a powerful playbook for the future of business, leadership, and human potential in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Jun 26, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
Congratulations on your bronze book award!
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Radical Doubt helps readers transform uncertainty from something paralyzing into something powerful. Rather than offering quick fixes or rigid frameworks, the book provides a practical, research-backed approach to navigating the moments in life and leadership when no option feels clearly right. Through relatable stories, cutting-edge social science, and tools rooted in real-world decision-making, Dr. Bidhan Parmar teaches readers how to slow down, reflect, and move forward with clarity—even when stakes are high and answers are elusive. It’s not about eliminating doubt, but learning how to work with it—so you can make better, wiser choices in your personal life, career, and relationships. Whether you’re deciding how to handle a toxic high performer at work, whether to leave a job for something uncertain, how to speak up when your values are at odds with your team’s, or how to manage competing commitments in your personal life—Radical Doubt helps you choose with integrity. It equips you to align your decisions with your values, navigate ethical gray areas with confidence, and preserve trust in your relationships. By learning how to engage productively with ambiguity, you’ll also avoid wasting time, energy, and resources chasing the illusion of certainty—or making reactive decisions you later regret. The result is not just better outcomes, but a more grounded and intentional way of living and leading.
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Bidhan (“Bobby”) Parmar is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and the Shannon G. Smith Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, where he teaches First Year Ethics, Second Year electives on collaboration, and creative and critical thinking. He was named one of the top 40 business school professors under 40 in the world and has won several teaching and research awards. Parmar’s research interests focus on how managers make sense of uncertainty and collaborate in ways that create value for stakeholders. His work helps executives better handle ambiguity in their decision-making. Parmar’s work has been published in numerous publications, including Organization Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, among others, and he has co-authored two books on stakeholder theory. Parmar is a fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Parmar is the Co-director of the Darden Experiential Leadership Development Lab, where students practice real world leadership skills in stressful and interpersonally sensitive situations, and get developmental feedback and coaching. Parmar lives in Charlottesville with his wife and two daughters.
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Jun 12, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money
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Six Sigma is a systematic approach to making significant or breakthrough process improvements. Currently, Six Sigma exists as a team-based problem-solving approach applied by trained project facilitators, which are typically called belts. Depending on the level of expertise in the methodology and improvement tools, belts can be White, Yellow, Green, Black, and Master Black Belts (MBBs). The Master Black Belt is the highest level of expertise in Six Sigma approaches, tools, and techniques.
In companies implementing Six Sigma, the role of Master Black Belt is to train, guide, and coach Black and Green belts to execute their improvement projects efficiently. In addition to this, Master Black Belts are often responsible for overseeing the organization’s entire improvement program with the ultimate responsibility for creating a robust culture of continuous improvement. Thus, the competence of MBBs is critically important for the success and long-term sustainability of Six Sigma in organizations.
This book is ideal for all those who wish to get trained and certified as Master Black Belts and train others to achieve breakthrough results using Six Sigma to shape and execute improvement projects. The book has the right balance between topics such as strategic planning, project selection, stakeholder management, and training design, to advanced statistical techniques such as propagation of errors, destructive measurement systems, general linear models and components of variation, and complex blocking structures in Design of Experiments. This book was written by three expert Master Black Belts certified by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Moreover, they are from different parts of the world and industry, which brings great diversity to the contents of the book.
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Hemant P. Urdhwareshe is a mechanical engineer with a postgraduate Diploma in Business management. He is the Director of the Institute of Quality & Reliability (IoQR) which conducts training and consulting in Six Sigma as well as Quality and Reliability Engineering. Hemant has been certified by ASQ as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CMBB), Quality Manager (CMQ/OE), Quality Engineer (CQE), and Reliability Engineer (CRE). Hemant has conducted numerous training programs for corporate clients and individuals in the areas of Six Sigma, Reliability Engineering, and Quality Assurance. Hemant has authored the book Six Sigma for Business Excellence and coauthored the book Total Quality Management, both published by Pearson Education (India). Apart from the books, he has presented many papers and published many articles in various forums and conferences. Hemant has received: Quality Leadership Award, World Quality Congress 2022 D.L.Shah Trust and Quality Council of India CI Quality Champion Silver Award 2018 Qimpro Foundation Silver Standard Award 2003 Hemant was a visiting faculty at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) for Business Statistics and Six Sigma. He runs a YouTube Channel “Institute of Quality and Reliability” with a large subscriber base. Hemant is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), a Senior Life Member of the National Center for Quality Management (NCQM, India), and a Senior Life Member of the National Institution for Quality and Reliability (NIQR, India).
Husain Al-Omani is an expert in project management and Six Sigma. He holds BS. (Mechanical Engineering), MS. (Construction Management) and MBA from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Husain has been certified by ASQ as Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CMBB), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), and Certified Quality Auditor (CQA). Also, he holds other certifications from AACE International, IIA, CMAA, and PMI. He has a leadership role in AACE International (Board of Directors) as Director at Large (2021-2025). Also, he is the General Manager in Saudi Arabia at CECO Environmental. He has been awarded the Ishikawa Medal in 2024 from ASQ and the Keane Award in 2021 from AACE International.
Thomas West is a seasoned expert in continuous improvement with extensive credentials, including a Certified Master Black Belt (CMBB) designation from the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Additionally, he is an ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Operational Excellence (CMQ/OE) and also possesses a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Thomas has dedicated his career to fostering operational excellence and has a rich history of driving impactful change. For much of his career, Thomas served as the Director of Continuous Improvement at a large regional health system in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he played a pivotal role in spearheading system-wide training initiatives. After nearly 9 years of leading teams in the health system, Tom’s commitment to advancing organizational efficiency led him to establish his consulting firm in 2019. Since embarking on his journey as a business owner, Tom has successfully guided clients across various industries, including finance, IT, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing/distribution, and education. Thomas’s consulting philosophy centers on empowering teams with robust problem-solving skills, enabling them to perform meaningful work and cultivate a sense of pride in their contributions – a concept he passionately calls “good tired.” His areas of expertise encompass leadership, strategy, portfolio management, and training and development.
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