Business audiobooks

Ages & Stages

By: Dr. Charles E. Schaefer & Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

Narrated by: Penton Overseas

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive parent's guide to your child's psychological development from birth through age 10 Written in an engaging, practical style, Ages and Stages offers you the benefits of the most current research on child development, featuring helpful tips and techniques to foster your child's maturation. Charles Schaefer and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo... Read more

The eBay Phenomenon

By: David Bunnell

Narrated by: Chris Ryan

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The buzz about The ebay Phenomenon
"David Bunnell's portrayal of eBay paints a picture of one of the most daring, fanatically innovative, customer-centric companies on the planet. It demonstrates how a small, driven group of people can listen to customers and reinvent the world-inspiring!"
—David Siegel, author, Futurize Your Enterprise

"Read The... Read more

Memos to President

By: James J. Schiro

Narrated by: Michael McFadden

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Eavesdrop in the corridors of power...
The nation's top CEOs share their valuable insights, experiences, and techniques running large, powerful organizations with the President of the United States. James J. Schiro, CEO of leading consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, has compiled important advice that reveals the crucial factors that determine... Read more

A Guided Meditation For Relaxation & Wellness

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to provide natural help with relaxation and self-calming. Repeated listening once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum impact. A separate track of affirmations shows how to relax in a briefer format, with positive... Read more

Flawless Consulting

By: Peter Block

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Block's Flawless Consulting addresses business changes and new challenges since the second edition was written ten years ago. It tackles the challenges next-generation consultants face, including more guidance on how to ask better questions, dealing with difficult clients, working in an increasingly virtual world, how to cope with... Read more

Welch an American Icon

By: Janet Lowe

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare perspective on the personal philosophy, business savvy, and future of the chairman of the most admired company in the world
Jack Welch, chairman of General Electric, is due to retire this spring. Welch has transported GE into the new economy with his management style, his forward-thinking approach to new technology, and by encouraging... Read more

The Power of Apology - Abridged

By: Beverly Engel

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Fresh and useful . . . excellent practical advice . . . thorough and lucid . . . will be welcomed by many who have struggled to ask forgiveness and to forgive."
-Publishers Weekly

A finalist in the Books for a Better Life Awards competition!

Discover the healing power of apology and put its magic to work in your life

Do you have a difficult time... Read more

Boys and Girls Learn Differently - Abridged

By: Michael Gurian

Narrated by: Chris Ryan

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The best kept secret in educationa controversial manifesto on how the fundamental differences between boys and girls affect the way they learn Read more

Where the Money Is - Abridged

By: Dr. Bob Froehlich

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Markets go up; markets go down. Yet over the long haul, stocks still are better investments than bonds. If you're investing for retirement, your children's education, or simply for personal gain, the challenge is to become a long-term investor amid short-term market fluctuations. And the key to lasting success is identifying future trends today... Read more

Why do Fools Fall in Love? - Abridged

By: Janice R. Levine & Howard J. Markman

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin & Lloyd James

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Thirty-two marriage and family experts set aside their professional personae to explain the wild and wonderful, irrational and passionate mystery of love. Written with simplicity and warmth, this book ultimately illuminates a deep and compassionate vision of what constitutes truly happy long-term relationships. Also included are pearls of wit... Read more

If Success is a Game, These are the Rules

By: Cherie Carter-Scott

Narrated by: Cherie Carter-Scott

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Chérie Carter-Scott learned the rules of success firsthand: she built her management consulting firm to serve hundreds of clients worldwide, including IBM and GTE. Her bestselling books touch hundreds of thousands of readers. And despite a calendar that shuttles her through dozens of time zones annually, she keeps her family close and... Read more

You're Fifty--Now What - Abridged

By: Charles Schwab

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future.  For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in financial services, is here to outline the... Read more

How Digital is Your Business?

By: Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison

Narrated by: Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison are back with another brilliant and practical book dealing with the big issues that keep the managers of every company awake at night: How do I keep my company from being "Amazoned," and how do I "anticipate my competitors, launch a preemptive digital strike, and completely change the landscape of my... Read more

Maestro - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. What do they do? Why precisely do they do it? Who is Greenspan? How does he think? What is the basis for his decisions? Why is he so powerful? What kind of relationships has he had with Reagan, Bush, and Clinton -- presidents during... Read more

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Eboys

By: Randall E. Stross

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.

Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends... Read more

Irrational Exuberance - Abridged

By: Robert J. Shiller

Narrated by: Robert J. Shiller

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a new Afterword on the current state of the stock market, the ongoing debate over the “new economy,” and the larger implications of “irrational exuberance.”

In this controversial, hard-hitting account of today’s explosive market, Robert J. Shiller, a leading expert on market volatility, evokes Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 reference,... Read more

The Intelligent Asset Allocator

By: William J. Bernstein

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Profit through good times and bad with a resilient, diversified portfolio The Intelligent Asset Allocator has helped thousands of people like you build wealth through carefully diversified portfolios. Now, with global markets in constant flux, balancing risk and reward is more critical than ever. Self-taught investor William Bernstein offers... Read more

The Power of Gold - Abridged

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Over the centuries, gold had stirred the passions for power and glory, for beauty and security, and even for immortality.  No other object has commanded so much veneration over such a long period of time.  The most striking feature of this long history is that gold led most of the protagonists in the drama into the ditch.  Gold had them, rather... Read more

Time Management From The Inside Out - Abridged

By: Julie Morgenstern

Narrated by: Julie Morgenstern

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

These days, we face no greater challenge in our personal and professional lives than organizing and managing our time. Now Julie Morgenstern, whose bestselling Organizing from the Inside Out has helped hundreds of thousands of people conquer the clutter in their lives, explains how to overcome the time challenge once and for all. Her... Read more

How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

By: Timothy Vick

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A $10,000 investment in Warren Buffett's original 1956 portfolio would today be worth a staggering $250 million ... after taxes! What are his investing secrets? How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett contains the answers and shows, step-by-profitable-step, how any investor can follow Buffett's path to consistently find bargains in all markets:... Read more

The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day - Abridged

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leadership can be a heavy load, wearing you down over time. In The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day, you will learn the daily habit that can transform your leadership and organization from the world's #1 leadership expert.John Maxwell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker, gives the roadmap to becoming a more... Read more

The 10-Second Internet Manager

By: Mark Breier

Narrated by: Mark Breier

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

All managers today are Internet managers, whether they're ready to admit it or not.  It doesn't matter if their business is large or small, old economy or new. In a faster, electronic, and more direct economy, every manager needs help. And here it is. The 10-Second Internet Manager offers quick, no-nonsense tips, tactics, and strategies for... Read more

The Millionaire Mind

By: Thomas J. Stanley

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have the millionaire mind?
The runaway bestseller The Millionaire Next Door told us who America's wealthy really are. The Millionaire Mind tells how they got there, and how to become one of them. Inside, you'll discover the surprising answers to questions such as...
What success factors made them wealthy in one generation?
What part... Read more