Widgets Named One of the Top Business Books of the Year

We’re delighted to pass along the news that Widgets was named this morning one of the year’s top five leadership and management books by CEO Read. The news release can be found here.

CEO Read Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher made the following observations about this year’s trend in business books:

Looking up and down this year’s list, we see a continuing trend of books at the intersection of digital technology and business. And though a few extoll the benefits, more and more begin questioning technology as panacea for business. And it is not just the books that actively question its effect, like The Rise of the Robots, Geek Heresy, and Reclaiming Conversation, but books that remind us that so much of the work left to be done is inherently and entirely human — Unfinished Business, Everybody Matters, Widgets, and Boss Life, among others. There are more books this year about workplace culture, human psychology, action and interaction, our behavior in the marketplace, and how we make a better world and business world together.

It’s his point – “that so much of the work left to be done is inherently and entirely human” – that motivated the Widgets team to do the research behind the book and to keep going.

That said, it’s also really fun when our hard work gets recognized. You might say it magnifies our success.