Business audiobooks

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

Double Your Income Doing What You Love

By: Raymond Aaron & Sue Lacher

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Raymond Aaron, the nation's number #1 success and investment coach, has committed his life to teaching people just like you how to utilize his powerful goal setting strategies and life management tools to dramatically change your life for the better.
Plus, using his own innovative techniques developed over the last two decades, he shows you how... Read more

The People's Tycoon

By: Steven Watts

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car... Read more

Stress and Time Management

By: Brian Lomas

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Time is a wasting asset, because once it has been spent, it can never be retrieved. There is no such thing as a refund, and the only re-runs are the ones that might be shown on the television. Everyone is under more pressure these days - the pace of life is faster, and individuals are being asked to work longer hours, sometimes with damaging... Read more

Better Budgeting for Your Business

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In an increasingly cost conscious world, control over your organisation's income and expenditure is vital. For most successful organisations, this control begins with a budgeting process that sets the scene and forms the basis for the business operation for the year ahead. But for many people, budgeting is a time-consuming nuisance to be endured... Read more

What the Customer Wants You to Know

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of What the CEO Wants You to Know teaches you how to rethink sales from the outside in.



More than ever, these days, the sales process often turns into a war about price—a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all the fun out of selling. But there's a better way to think about sales, says bestselling author Ram Charan, who... Read more

The Logic of Life

By: Tim Harford

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune... Read more

Authentic Leadership

By: Bill George

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There can be no doubt about the credentials of Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, who has been named one of BusinessWeek's "Top 25 Managers." In Authentic Leadership, George lays out his plan for improving corporate America's flaws through responsible leadership. Read more

The 11th Element

By: Robert Scheinfeld

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Business leaders in more than 110 countries have benefited from the extraordinary wisdom of Robert Scheinfeld, whose seminars and writings have helped dramatically improve sales and profits. In The 11th Element, Scheinfeld shares the secrets that propelled his grandfather's company, Manpower Inc., into the Fortune 500-the same approach that... Read more

The Breakthrough Company

By: Keith R. McFarland

Narrated by: Keith R. McFarland

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough... Read more

Communicating With More Confidence

By: Rowmark Ltd

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Communicating effectively should be the simplest thing in the world, we talk and listen - or do we? And is that all there is to it? This audiobook shows you: how to read, interpret and use body language; how to open, structure and close conversations; how to influence people; how to get on someone's wavelength; how to recognise, understand and... Read more

The Point of the Deal

By: Danny Ertel & Mark Gordon

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do so many deals that look good on paper end up in tatters? Deal makers often treat the handshake or signed contract - getting to "yes" - as the final destination in their bargaining journey rather than the start of a cooperative venture.

Even worse, most companies reward negotiators on the basis of the number and size of the deals they're... Read more

Ready, Fire, Aim

By: Michael Masterson

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted - all while getting paid very well - would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did, and with Ready, Fire, Aim he'll show you how to do the same.
Whether you're thinking about starting a new business or growing an existing one,... Read more

The Logic of Life - Abridged

By: Tim Harford

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune... Read more

Stirring It Up

By: Gary Hirshberg

Narrated by: Gary Hirshberg

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A true force for change, Gary Hirshberg has been at the forefront of movements working for environmental and social transformation for 30 years. From his early days as an educator and activist to his current position as President and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's largest organic yogurt company, Hirshberg's positive outlook has inspired... Read more

Stirring It Up

By: Gary Hirshberg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Getting Things Done

By: David Allen

Narrated by: David Allen

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING!

In today's world of exponentially increased communication and responsibility, yesterday's methods for staying on top just don't work.

Veteran management consultant and trainer David Allen recognizes that "time management" is useless the minute your schedule is... Read more

Flight Plan

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlock your full potential for success....
You have the ability, right now, to accomplish more than you ever have before. In this powerful, practical program, Brian Tracy shows you how to plot your course to greater success and achievement. Life, Tracy says, is a journey. And as with any other journey, you have to do more than just think happy... Read more

Creating a World without Poverty

By: Muhammad Yunus

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last few decades, free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change. Nevertheless, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including spiritual, social,... Read more

Fooled by Randomness

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which... Read more

Medienpolitik im digitalen Zeitalter - Abridged

By: Wolf-Dieter Ring

Narrated by: Wolf-Dieter Ring

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WAS MACHT MEDIENPOLITIK? Medienpolitik setzt den Ordnungsrahmen für die Medien. Sie muss in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft so angelegt sein, dass die Medien wichtige Funktionen wie Information und Sozialisation für die Gesellschaft erfüllen bzw. erfüllen können. MEHR ANGEBOTE DURCH DIGITALISIERUNG Digitalisierung ist zunächst nur die... Read more

God Is a Salesman

By: Mark Stevens

Narrated by: Author

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Laced with anecdotes based on the experiences of the author and the many others he has known, loved, mentored, coached, and partnered with, GOD IS A SALESMAN shows us how to translate powerful lessons from God into tools to help us achieve extraordinary success through better relationships, and new dimensions in life. Read more

Building a Positive Media Profile

By: Rowmark Ltd

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Editorial coverage carries at least two and a half times the weight of advertising. It is a very cost effective way of raising an organisation's profile. This audiobook looks at how to build a positive media profile for an organisation. It provides information on how the media work and how to build good media relations. It also shows how to... Read more

Go for No!

By: Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz

Narrated by: Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world inundated with books on getting to yes, this audio book recommends just the opposite, focusing on how increasing your failure rate can greatly accelerate your movement toward ultimate success. Go for No! chronicles four days in the life of fictional character Eric Bratton, a call reluctant copier salesman who wakes up one morning to... Read more