Business audiobooks
The Inspiring Leader
By: John H. Zenger
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive study conducted over four years, that leaders... Read more
View audiobookStop The Investing Rip-Off - Abridged
By: David B. Loeper
Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 2006, the GDP for financial services was nearly $1.1 trillion. Total U.S. financial assets stood at $44 trillion in 2007, meaning that the financial services industry as a whole is skimming 2.5% a year out of everyone's wealth.
Some of these costs are obvious, like ATM fees, insurance premiums, mutual fund expense ratios, brokerage commissions... Read more
Who's Got Your Back
By: Keith Ferrazzi
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman” and the rest of our culture’s go-it alone mentality. The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous... Read more
View audiobookHow the Mighty Fall
By: Jim Collins
Narrated by: Jim Collins
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
""Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.""—Jim CollinsDecline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed.Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early... Read more
View audiobookThe Housing Boom and Bust
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages, and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the... Read more
View audiobookA Gift to My Children
By: Jim Rogers
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
What makes for a successful investor? More important, what makes for a happy and meaningful life? According to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the road to financial success and the road to a meaningful life are one and the same. In A Gift to My Children, Rogers lays out his advice to young people on how to achieve the financial success they need... Read more
View audiobookThe Little Green Book of Getting Your Way
By: Jeffrey Gitomer
Narrated by: Jeffrey Gitomer
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Little Red Book of Selling...
Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Green Book of Getting Your Way digs deep into the 9.5 elements that make persuasion, and getting your way, happen. By breaking down the elements, you will begin to understand, take action, become proficient, and then master the ability to persuade.... Read more
Investing in the Bank of You and Me
By: Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Greco has a solution for our economy. With his fresh perspective on money, credit, and…well…civilization, he believes we can save our economy and our planet by reconstructing our financial system-and find ourselves happier and healthier in the bargain. Read more
View audiobookThe Sticking Point Solution
By: Jay Abraham
Narrated by: Jay Abraham
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Businesses can plateau, stall, or stagnate…without the owners or key executives even realizing it. A business might be achieving incremental year-on-year growth and yet still be in a situation of stagnation or stall. Why? Because entrepreneurs and executives often focus on the wrong things and don’t know how to solve the problems that get their... Read more
View audiobookRules of Thumb
By: Alan M. Webber
Narrated by: Alan M. Webber
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“Alan Webber’s wise words give guidance and hope in a world gone upside down. Incisive and practical, timely and timeless, he is a mentor of the highest order.”—Jim Collins, New York Times bestselling author of Good to Great In Rules of Thumb, Alan Webber—co-founder of Fast Company and one of the most important thought leaders of the last two... Read more
View audiobookThe Richest Man in Town - Abridged
By: Randall Jones
Narrated by: Randall Jones
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Secretly, if not overtly, almost everyone in America desires to become rich: to make it big, to enjoy the fruits of the most successful life imaginable. But unfortunately, most of us don't have a clue how to reach these all too elusive goals. Quite simply, there's no definitive road map for getting there, no proven plan, and certainly very... Read more
View audiobookThe Story Behind Feature-Driven Development
By: Jeff DeLuca
Narrated by: Jeff DeLuca
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Feature-Driven Development is one of six recognized major agile development methodologies. FDD and Jeff De Luca are a part of the Agile Software Consortium, and FDD was one of the original agile methodologies represented at the signing of the Agile Manifesto. While most recent writing about agile has concerned Scrum and Extreme Programming... Read more
View audiobookEscape from Cubicle Nation
By: Pamela Slim
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite grim headlines about the economy, you don’t have to stay in a job you intensely hate. There’s a better opportunity waiting out there, and escaping from cubicle nation is easier than you think.Pamela Slim spent a decade traveling all over the country as a self-employed trainer for large corporations. She was surprised to find that many of... Read more
View audiobookBeans
By: Charles Decker & Leslie Yerkes
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this little book is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes. As the coffee shop owner looks for ways to retain his customer base, a consultant helps him focus on what really matters. Authors Yerkes and Decker, renowned for their consulting and business savvy, have done... Read more
View audiobookGoogle Speaks
By: Janet Lowe
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In many ways, Google is the prototype of a successful twenty-first century company. It uses technology in new ways to make information universally accessible; promotes a corporate culture that encourages creativity among its employees; and takes its role as a corporate citizen very seriously, investing in green initiatives and developing the... Read more
View audiobookBack to Basics Management
By: Matthew J. Culligan, C. Suzanne Deakins & Arthu...
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Back to Basics Management explains the difference between business administration and business management, how this distinction has been obscured, and the need to revive the craft of leadership in management. It is an invaluable book for every conscientious manager, detailing the tools used in effective management, and it offers concise and... Read more
View audiobookGuerrilla P.R.
By: Michael Levine
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen can attest to the fact that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. If you are a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, here are the resources necessary to mount... Read more
View audiobookThe Global Deal
By: Nicholas Stern
Narrated by: James Adams
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2005, economist Nicholas Stern was commissioned by the British government to direct the largest study ever conducted into the scientific reality of global warming. The Stern Report, which made headlines around the world, is far and away the deepest and most far-reaching exploration into the economic and ethical consequences of this... Read more
View audiobookApplied Economics
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Bill Wallace
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Newly revised and updated, this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America’s most revered economists.Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination,... Read more
View audiobookNegotiate Your Way to Riches
By: Peter Wink
Narrated by: Peter Wink
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Unlike any negotiating book you’ve ever heard!
If you buy or sell anything personally or professionally, this audio book can make or save you a fortune!
This complete guide to negotiating great deals gives you step-by-step instructions to get anything you want for personal or business use for a fraction of the asking price…or, better yet, no... Read more
Digital Barbarism
By: Mark Helprin
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its... Read more
View audiobookLords of Finance
By: Liaquat Ahamed
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 18 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for... Read more
View audiobookKeeping the Edge
By: Dick Schaaf
Narrated by: Glenn Birney
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
What is a company’s balance point between the demands of its customers and the profit expectations of its shareholders? In the era of “lean and mean” operations, is quality service still the key to a business’ bottom line? To answer these corporate life-and-death questions, Dick Schaaf, a leading authority on the subject and co-author of The... Read more
View audiobookShopping
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In Slumping Economy, a Shift in Shopping HabitsA leading retail consultant discusses why this recession may change consumer behavior permanently. Read more
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