Business audiobooks

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Abridged

By: Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter

Narrated by: Marshall Goldsmith

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What’s holding you back? Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. Perhaps one small flaw–a behavior you barely even recognize–is the only thing that’s keeping you from where you want to be.

Who can help? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at... Read more

Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life

By: Larry Winget

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life is a Wall Street Journal number one best-seller that isn't afraid to tell you it's time to change. From motivational speaker Larry Winget, also known as The Pitbull of Personal Development and The World's Only Irritational Speaker, comes a not-so-typical self help book. Winget's hilarious and in-your-face... Read more

The Innovator's Solution

By: Michael E. Raynor & Clayton Christensen

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street... Read more

Discovering Your Greatest Opportunities

By: James B. Swartz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Swartz discovered many common traits in the world's most successful people that you'll find encouraging. For example, you're never too old, dismal failure is often followed by extraordinary achievement, and taking time off might turn on your greatest inspiration. Best of all, achieving your greatest success may be easier than you expect. He... Read more

Know-How

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan . . . The breakthrough book that links know-how—the skills of people who know what they are doing— with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader.How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric... Read more

My Reality Check Bounced!

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

Narrated by: Jason Ryan Dorsey

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms.

In your twenties you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you (“Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch,”), and... Read more

The Carrot Principle

By: Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

Narrated by: Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Stick Management is out. Carrot management is in! The Carrot Principle offers proven strategies to help recognize and motivate your valued employees.

Since its original publication in 2007, the New York Times bestseller The Carrot Principle has received rave reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The New York Times, and has helped a... Read more

Top Performer - Abridged

By: Stephen C. Lundin

Narrated by: Carr Hagerman

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We all sell something for a living -- whether it's a brand, a vision, an education, a direction, or a service. We might even be selling a set of numbers to a board meeting, learning to a student, or cereal to an infant. This eye-opening parable is about harnessing natural energy--yours and that of those around you--in order to take your sales,... Read more

Words That Work - Abridged

By: Dr. Frank Luntz

Narrated by: Dr. Frank Luntz

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country In Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters... Read more

The Maui Millionaires

By: David Finkel & Diane Kennedy

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It's an event so popular, it's sold out up to a year in advance. It's an experience so powerful, participants willingly pay the $30,000 ticket price- and return again and again. It's a place where dreams are made, expectations are exceeded, and multimillionaires are born. It's the Maui Mastermind, the most exclusive wealth retreat in the world,... Read more

Confessions of a Serial Entrepeneur

By: Stuart Skorman & Catherine Guthrie

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman--the founder of Elephant Pharmacy, Hungryminds.com, Reel.com, and Empire Video--grew up in a retailing family in Ohio. He worked every kind of job, from cab driver to professional poker player to CEO. In this entertaining, personal account of his coming-of- age in the business world, Skorman gives an insider's view of... Read more

Capitalism

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In her series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the... Read more

Guerrilla Marketing

By: Jay Conrad Levinson

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

WhenGuerrilla Marketingwas first published in 1983, Jay Levinson was the first person on the block with an innovative take-no-prisoners approach to marketing for the small-business owner. Filled with hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson's philosophy has given birth to a whole new way of thinking about marketing. But times have... Read more

The Selling Edge

By: Michael Levokove

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Today’s marketplace is a fast-changing and highly competitive environment. With the downsizing of corporate America, businesses are being called upon to do more with less, and must work longer and harder to maintain and increase their sales. This book breaks new ground by concentrating on challenges facing the sales manager, detailing the steps... Read more

Guerrilla Marketing Weapons

By: Jay Conrad Levinson

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Too many small and mid-sized businesses offer gold-medal quality and service yet struggle to pay their bills and stay in business. What they need are guerrilla marketing weapons to put energy behind their dreams. This indispensable nuts-and-bolts guide outlines every weapon you need to make a significant bottom-line difference in your... Read more

The New American Workplace

By: James O’Toole & Edward E. Lawler

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty years ago, the bestselling “letter to the government” Work in America was published to national acclaim, including front-page coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. It sounded an alarm about worker dissatisfaction and the effects on the nation as a whole.Now, based on thirty years of research, this new... Read more

The New Golden Age

By: Ravi Batra

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking treatise, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made his book The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism an international bestseller, Batra takes on falling minimum wages,... Read more

Mind-Body Exercises For Stress Hardiness Optimization

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This research-proven collection of mind body exercises offers quick, effective relaxation techniques for stress in first responders, soldiers or anyone engaged in dangerous or traumatizing work. Repeated listening to these relaxation techniques for stress teaches self-regulation and self-calming skills to police, EMT's, firefighters, soldiers,... Read more

The Making of Modern Economics

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 19 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This bold history of economics tells the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer. Unlike other economics histories, Skousen’s book provides a running plot with a singular heroic figure, Adam Smith, at the center of the discipline. Skousen unites the great thinkers by ranking them for or... Read more

Seven Years to Seven Figures

By: Michael Masterson

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Masterson, a self-made millionaire, draws upon his own experiences to offer a complete program for readers to reach seven figures within seven years. The author shows readers how to set target nest egg lifestyles for themselves and then goes into detail on how to increase their income and continue to save for the future-to achieve the target.... Read more

The Six-Day Financial Makeover

By: Robert Pagliarini

Narrated by: Robert Pagliarini

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This isn't your father's personal finance book. The way we currently save and invest is confusing, frustrating, and quite simply doesn't work. Get ready for a personal finance book that is actually unique. Get ready for financial strategies that you've never seen or heard before. Get ready to transform your financial life in less than a... Read more

Don’t Die Broke

By: Margaret A. Malaspina

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Considering what’s at stake, it’s surprising how little we know about the key decisions we’ll face concerning the retirement money we’ve accumulated. Taking charge of retirement savings today presents a whole new and complex set of decisions: Do you accept your employer’s offer of a lifetime pension? Should you leave 401(k) money where it is or... Read more

It's Called Work for a Reason!

By: Larry Winget

Narrated by: Larry Winget

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Larry Wignet offers sharp, unapologetic—and invaluable—advice for succeeding in the work world

For all those who are frustrated at work, who seem to have no luck in business, who are underappreciated at the office, who are uninspired by their daily tasks, who just aren’t finding the career... Read more

Negotiation Boot Camp

By: Ed Brodow

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

We find ourselves engaged in various kinds of negotiations every day, from trying to land a new account or win a promotion at work, to buying a house or a car, or bargaining down a cell phone bill, or settling a dispute with a friend or spouse. In this groundbreaking book, negotiation expert Ed Brodow shows us how to settle conflicts amicably to... Read more