Business audiobooks

Intelligence With a Heart

By: Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The book Emotional Intelligence (Bantam 1995) fundamentally changed our understanding of what qualities enable people to excel in real life.  The phenomenal response from the business community to the book prompted author Daniel Goleman to apply his insights to the workplace. Read more

Winning With the P&G 99 - Abridged

By: Charles L. Decker

Narrated by: Charles L. Decker

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Instantly recognizable as the company behind such familiar products as Ivory soap, Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is admired as one of the world's best managed companies. Marketing training at P&G rivals that of an MBA degree, and Harvard Business School teaches P&G's brand-management system. Now, a former... Read more

Make It Your Business - Abridged

By: Stephan Schiffman

Narrated by: Stephan Schiffman

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than twenty years ago, entrepreneur Stephen Schiffman launched his own business - D.E.I. Management Group Inc. - and built it into a major financial success. Now, Schiffman reveals his innovative business-building strategies in Make It Your Business - a complete and concise guide written specifically for the entrepreneur.

Combining his... Read more

The Portable Coach - Abridged

By: Thomas J. Leonard

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Thomas J. Leonard is the father of personal coaching, an explosively growing movement, as well as the founder of Coach University, a virtual university that has trained thousands of personal coaches in thirty countries.

Now, in The Portable Coach, Leonard presents his 28-step Principles of Attraction program -- an exciting, profoundly... Read more

Team Rodent

By: Carl Hiassen

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. A native of Florida, Hiaasen comes by his dislike for Disney honestly. He has witnessed the relentless success of the Disney machine firsthand with the development of Disney World and other properties around Orlando. In Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, Hiaasen paints a witty and... Read more

Getting It Done

By: Alan Sharp & Roger Fisher

Narrated by: Mario Machado

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Does it seem that good ideas go nowhere at your company, that meetings are often a waste of time, and that nobody seems to be in charge? In Getting It Done, Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp tackle the inertia that afflicts many groups. The authors advance the idea of lateral leadership as a means of breaking apart the logjams that inhibit... Read more

Our Lady of the Freedoms - Abridged

By: Corwin Morman

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A great American voice narrates a poignant tribute to our most outstanding monument. One of Charles Kuralt's last projects, Our Lady of the Freedoms is a full-scale production of writer-director Norman Corwin's account of how the Statue of Liberty came to New York harbor.
Charles Kuralt's brilliant narration accompanies dramatizations of the... Read more

The Artist's Way at Work - Abridged

By: Mark Bryan & Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Mark Bryan & Julia Cameron

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The groundbreaking book The Artist's Way has helped more than a million people access their creativity and realize their dreams. Now, authors Mark Bryan, Julia Cameron, and Catherine Allen extend and expand the original Artist's Way tools in an all-new program specifically designed to encompass the world of the workplace.

The authors asked... Read more

The Art Of Leadership

By: James Autry & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on the wisdom of the world's oldest leadership manual, the Tao Te Ching, James Autry and Stephen Mitchell discuss how to transform the workplace.  Says Autry, "Where does leadership begin?  On the inside.  The transition from management--knowing what to do--to leadership--knowing how to be--is a transition from the external to the... Read more

The Argument Culture - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

The Centerless Corporation - Abridged

By: Bruce A. Pasternack

Narrated by: Scott Byce

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In today's fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever altered the requirements for running a business today. Now, in response, The Centerless Corporation presents a... Read more

Buffettology - Abridged

By: Mary Buffett & David Clark

Narrated by: Mary Buffett

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity—now you can learn how Warren Buffett did it and how you can, too.

Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is now famous. Mary Buffett, former daughter-in-law of this... Read more

The Future Of Money

By: Bernard A. Leitaer

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What exactly is money?  Bernard Lietaer supplies us with this definition:  “Money is not a thing; money lives in the same space as a marriage--in a space of agreement.  Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.”  Lietaer gives us tremendous insights into the origins and nature of money throughout history. Read more

Smart Thinking for Crazy Times - Abridged

By: Ian Mitroff

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Managers, organizations, and even whole societies repeatedly get trapped into solving the wrong problems. Their errors can be traced to one fundamental flaw: misdirected thinking. Leading business professor Ian Mitroff asserts that the ability to spot the right problems, frame them correctly, and implement appropriate solutions is the true... Read more

The Micro-Lending Revolution

By: Muhammad Yunus & Alex Counts

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder of the Grameen Bank in his native Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus is a financial pioneer who has loaned over two billion dollars to over three million people with no money or collateral.  They have all paid him back. Read more

Purpose And Possibility In Your Work

By: Richard Leider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What are your gifts?  How can you best serve?  What are you here to do and be in this life?  Richard Leider has helped individuals, leaders and teams answer these questions and discover the power of purpose in their lives. Read more

Love Your Job

By: Barbara Reinhold

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An estimated twenty million Americans are staying in jobs they hate in order to keep their health insurance, while research indicates that job stress will ensure they use it.  We can't all quit our jobs, so how do we cope?  Barbara Reinhold offers some excellent solutions for managing stress and taking more control in your life. Read more

Total Quality Management

By: Stephen George & Arnold Weimerskirch

Narrated by: Lloyd Bochner

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The quality movement prompted many companies to question their entire way of operating. To understand and profit from the concept of Total Quality Management, companies must pay particular attention to the first word in the phrase: total. The spectacular rewards enjoyed by top companies like 3M, FedEx, and Ben & Jerry's were earned through a... Read more

Total Quality Management

By: Stephen George & Arnold Weimerskirch

Narrated by: Lloyd Bochner

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

More than ever, customer relations and engagement are key components of a company's success. Companies that are intent on tracking their customer's ever-changing requirements and improving their services know the best business management model begins with customer focus and ends with customer satisfaction. Total Quality Management: Customers and... Read more

Kaplan Word Power - Abridged

By: Kaplan

Narrated by: n/a

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You'll Never Be at a Loss for Words Again.
The words you use say a lot about who you are and where you're headed. Whether you want to express yourself clearly to impress a prospective employer during a job interview, or just brush up on those pesky words you encounter every so often reading the newspaper, Kaplan Word Power® is the essential... Read more

Power of Nonviolence, The:  Compassion In Action (Part 2)

By: His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman, De...

Narrated by: Jeff Wessman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In part two of "Peacemaking: The Power of Non-Violence", Nobel Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Daniel Goleman, Michael Meade, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Edward James Olmos and others explore peacemaking as it applies to school and community.  We look at new models of education that include emotional intelligence, conflict resolution... Read more

Total Quality Management

By: Stephen George & Arnold Weimerskirch

Narrated by: Lloyd Bochner

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of a series to cover the range of business functions in a typical MBA course, Total Quality Management: Strategic Planning teaches how to integrate strategic quality and business planning to create one tactical process for your entire business. Developed by two leading quality control experts, this well-researched, step-by-step guide helps... Read more

First Things First Every Day - Abridged

By: Stephen R. Covey

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?

Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why we so often prioritize things... Read more

Money: Who Has How Much and Why - Abridged

By: Andrew Hacker

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the publication of Andrew Hacker's instant classic and bestselling Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Newsweek described him as a "political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats, canes, and chairs. he doesn't crunch numbers: he makes them live and breathe." Now, with the same keen, objective... Read more