Business audiobooks

Einführung in die Existenzgründung - Abridged

By: Christian Kohfeldt

Narrated by: Christian Kohfeldt

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine gute Geschäftsidee verfügt über einen entsprechenden Kundennutzen und einen ausreichend großen Markt. Die Treppe, die Sie von Ihrer Geschäftsidee zu Ihrem Geschäftserfolg führt, wird Businessplan oder - auf deutsch - Geschäfts- bzw. Unternehmensplan genannt. Das bedeutet, dass Sie für die Umsetzung Ihrer Geschäftsidee ein realistisches... Read more

Financial Reckoning Day

By: Addison Wiggin & William Bonner

Narrated by: Richard Harries

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

William Bonner and Addison Wiggin deliver their extremely successful financial newsletter, Daily Reckoning, to more than half a million readers. Now this pair of maverick investment writers shows that the key to surviving a soft depression is not collecting and analyzing current market data. Instead, if Americans want to plow through their... Read more

Rules to Break and Laws to Follow

By: Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, Ph.D.

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Rule #1: The best measure of success for your business is current sales and profit.
Rule # 2: With the right sales and marketing effort, you can always get more customers.
Rule # 3: Company value is created by offering differentiated products and services.These three golden rules for running a successful business may look no more dangerous than... Read more

Get Paid More and Promoted Faster

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Put Your Career on the Fast Track

Get Paid More and Promoted Faster provides practical, proven, simple and effective ways to help you take control of your career and put it on the fast track.

Brian Tracy reveals how you can apply the secrets and strategies used by the highest paid people in every business to maximize your own strengths, make... Read more

Hire and Keep the Best People

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Give Yourself The Competitive Edge in Selecting and Keeping Excellent People

The biggest requirement for success in any business is the ability to attract and retain excellent employees, yet most managers have never received any formal training in the process of personnel selection. And, if you’re like most managers, you probably don’t have time... Read more

Writing a Business Plan

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Why should you use your valuable time creating a document that tries to look into the future while the world is changing around you? How can you decide now what you will be doing in one year's time, or three or even five? Read more

Living Authentically And Simply

By: David Wann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing to consume excessively as a way of life is neither desirable nor possible, if we care about future generations. It seems clear that we need to alter our patterns of consumption in order to preserve and sustain our precious natural resources. David Wann suggests that if we change a few key priorities, many of our material wants will... Read more

FairTax:The Truth

By: Boortz Media Group LLC

Narrated by: Neal Boortz

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia congressman John Linder created The FairTax Book, presenting the American public with a bold new plan designed to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS, jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, and recapture billions of untaxed dollars currently hoarded by... Read more

Rock On

By: Dan Kennedy

Narrated by: Dan Kennedy

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you land a sweet six-figure marketing gig at the hallowed record label known for having signed everyone from Led Zeppelin to Stone Temple Pilots? You start with a resume like Dan Kennedy's:


• Dressed up as a member of Kiss every Halloween
• Memorized Led Zeppelin IV at age ten
• Fronted a lip-sync band in junior high
• Worked as a college DJ... Read more

Motivating Your Staff for Better Performance

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Business owners and managers are under increasing pressure to perform. Never has there been a better time to practice good people motivation and management techniques. Lack of employment security and flexible working contracts have reduced the level of loyalty, so more emphasis needs to be placed on building positive relationships with people.... Read more

Marketing to Win More Business

By: Rowmark Ltd

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In order to grow and survive in business, boosting your customer base and increasing your sales from those customers is paramount. And even if you are operating in the public sector, or in a non-profit organisation, there is still a need to communicate successfully with your target market.

This guide, written in a practical, straightforward... Read more

Handling Confrontation at Work

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This guide is primarily concerned with the safety of the person and the minimising of potential physical conflict and personal injury.

This guide looks at awareness of potential behaviour patterns that may lead to aggressiveness; avoidance of situations where the potential for aggressive behaviour exists; interpretation of non-verbal... Read more

The Teapot Dome Scandal

By: Laton McCartney

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s was all about oil—hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of petroleum. When the scandal finally broke, the consequences were tremendous. President Harding’s legacy was forever tarnished, while “Oil Cabinet” member Albert Fall was forced to resign and was imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the... Read more

Writing Newsletters and Articles

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a successful newsletter? How do you structure an article that people want to read? How do you secure a commission from a magazine? This guide will show you:


how to open articles

how to make them flow and use good closing paragraphs

how to use case studies

where to find experts and how to interview them

how to write the article up

how to... Read more

Managing Change

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A certainty in life is that things will change - sometimes bringing new experiences we enjoy and at other times those we would prefer to avoid. While change may be certain, our natural aversion to it creates conflicting pressures.

Failure to recognise and address these conflicts is the main reason why change initiatives do not produce the gains,... Read more

The Company

By: John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Company, the largely unknown history of the joint-stock company is presented by the editors of Economist. One of history's greatest catalysts, the joint-stock company has dramatically changed the way human beings live, work, and conduct business. With companies now affecting the world on a global scale, it is more pressing than ever... Read more

The Certifiable Salesperson

By: Laura Laaman & Tom Hopkins

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Hopkins, the world's leading expert on salesmanship and author of 11 books, joins forces with award-winning speaker Laura Laaman to create a fool-proof guide to being a successful salesperson. This handbook focuses on selling techniques, from handshakes and clothing to networking and presentations. Read more

Dare to Prepare

By: Ronald M. Shapiro

Narrated by: Ronald M. Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

During his forty-year career in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked with a great variety of people. He’s found that the secret for getting into the winner’s circle is simply disciplined preparation.In Dare to Prepare, successful people such as wine guru Robert Parker, investment legend Bill Miller, pianist... Read more

Investing in One Lesson

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Skousen has built his impressive reputation as one of the industry’s best-known investment advisors by consistently beating the market year after year. Now, he passes along his entire investment philosophy, based on his decades of experience, in a single, one-lesson book.Investing in One Lesson first unravels the intricacies of Wall Street,... Read more

Leadership Is an Art

By: Max DePree

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As president and CEO of Herman Miller, Inc.—a firm which ranked high in Fortune magazine's surveys of the most admired, best managed companies to work for in America—Max DePree nurtured a culture of open communication and inclusion. In Leadership Is an Art, DePree expounds on his innovative style of business stewardship, one that contributed to... Read more

The Riddle - Abridged

By: Andrew Razeghi

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs thrive on their ability to be creative. New wealth flows to those who successfully introduce new ideas. While organizations claim to value creativity, they are often at a loss when attempting to conjure up novel ideas, particularly in a world where technology has made information readily available to... Read more

Giving Confident Presentations

By: Brian Lomas

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Making a presentation strikes fear into many hearts. It ranks alongside going to the dentist or being put into a cage with a hungry lion or two! Wherever it sits along the fear scale for you, this guide is designed to get through it, if not actually reaching the point of enjoying giving a presentation. This guide includes: how to research and... Read more

Fewer, Shorter, Better Meetings

By: Brian Lomas

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This easy step-by-step guide will show you how to make meetings more effective; how to get meetings off to the right start; how to get difficult messages across; how to encourage participation; how to manage conflict in meetings; how to set agendas and keep the meeting focused; whether or not to call a meeting; and the alternatives to meetings. Read more

Recruiting the Right Staff

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing the right people is critical to the success of any business. Appointing the wrong person can be expensive, not only in monetary terms but also in terms of wasted time and energy. It can also lead to internal conflict, higher absenteeism, and lost production time. Recruitment is not simply about discovering ways to get hold of someone... Read more