Business audiobooks

Thriving on Chaos - Abridged

By: Tom Peters

Narrated by: Tom Peters

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A radical new plan of action for corporate managers from the co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence.

In this adaptation of his bold new book, Tom Peters delivers an urgent message: if American corporations are going to thrive in today's (and tomorrow's) turbulent economic/political world, a revolution in both management... Read more

Weaving the Web - Abridged

By: Tim Berners-Lee

Narrated by: Tim Berners-Lee

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century.His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of... Read more

Liberation Management - Abridged

By: Tom Peters

Narrated by: Tom Peters

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the bestselling IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement,... Read more

The Tom Peters Seminar - Abridged

By: Tom Peters

Narrated by: Tom Peters

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This volume brings together the best of the Tom Peters seminars—complete with visual materials.

The Tom Peters Seminar demonstrates Peters' unconventional analysis that challenges outdated corporate structures and demonstrates that "imagination is the source of value in the economy." Peters' bold ideas vault business thinking beyond... Read more

The Heart and Soul of Excellence - Abridged

By: Tom Peters

Narrated by: Tom Peters

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

The coauthor of In Search of Excellence offers his unique practical insights on business, management, leadership, and success. Peters' valuable commentary and advice spans across such crucial subjects as listening to customers, noting symbols, circulating, motivating others, and striving for top-notch quality and service. Read more

The Pursuit of Wow! - Abridged

By: Tom Peters

Narrated by: Tom Peters

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Organized into more than 200 thought- and action-provoking elements—from the importance of clean trucks and bathrooms to conversations with entrepreneurs creating new markets—Tom Peters, bestselling management guru offers a practical guide to impractical times.
 
In The Pursuit of Wow!, Tom Peters offers readers the words, the tools, to survive... Read more

SCOTUS Discussions June 2006

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court decided two cases today impacting death row inmates. Ray Suarez speaks with Marcia Coyle, Washington bureau chief for The National Law Journal, regarding the decisions, including a challenge to the use of lethal injection. Read more

Lead Generation for the Complex Sale

By: Brian Carroll

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Lead Generation for the Complex Sale arms you with a sophisticated multimodal approach to generating highly profitable leads. Brian Carroll, CEO of InTouch Incorporated and expert in lead generation solutions, reveals key strategies that you can implement immediately to win new customers, accelerate growth, and improve your sales... Read more

Succeed On Your Own Terms

By: Herb Greenberg & Patrick Sweeney

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT MAKES TOP ACHIEVERS SUCCESSFUL?

Is it more energy? Luck? Drive? Focus? Vision? These are some of the questions answered in Herb Greenberg and Patrick Sweeney's illuminating book, Succeed on Your Own Terms.

Greenberg and Sweeney spent two years traveling in more than two dozen countries interviewing some of the world's most accomplished... Read more

2 Years to a Million in Real Estate

By: Matthew A. Martinez

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Quit your day job!

Make a million in real estate!

It's easier than you think!

A few years ago, Matthew Martinez was a lot like you - he worked hard to make as big a salary as he could. But it wasn't enough. He worked by the clock, and yearned to be his own boss. With a small amount of savings, he acquired his first rental property. Two years... Read more

The Pursuit of Happyness - Abridged

By: Chris Gardner

Narrated by: Andre Blake

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.At the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his... Read more

Treasure Hunt

By: Michael J. Silverstein & John Butman

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A BMW in a Costco parking lot?

A working-class family with a 50-inch plasma TV?

What’s going on in the mind of the new consumer?

TREASURE HUNT takes us into the homes of real people making real decisions, and into the CEO's offices of innovative companies finding new ways to accommodate them. Written with the same flair, empathy, and intelligence... Read more

100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them

By: Stanley Bing

Narrated by: Gil Schwartz

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The scholarly discipline of Bullshit Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue. Now, bestselling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field with a comprehensive look at the many attractive jobs now available to those who are... Read more

Desperate Networks - Abridged

By: Bill Carter

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more

Revolutionary Wealth

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

Narrated by: Melissa Edris

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more

Revolutionary Wealth - Abridged

By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler

Narrated by: Kevin Gray & Laura Dean

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more

Make Winning a Habit

By: Rick Page

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of the complex sale and a bestselling author, Rick Page is also one of the most experienced sales consultants and trainers in the world. Make Winning A Habit defines the gap between what companies know to do and how they consistently perform.

Page clearly identifies five “Ts” of transformation: Talent, Technique, Teamwork, Technology and... Read more

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL® The Spark

By: John U. Bacon

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Creativity and innovation are widely recognized as essential to success in business, and so many aspects of our lives. For over two decades, Cirque du Soleil has been a world-renowned laboratory of creativity, enthralling audiences around the world by fusing dazzling acrobatics, staging and choreography, and music, along with beautiful costumes... Read more

Attitude is Everything - Abridged

By: Keith Harrell

Narrated by: Keith Harrell

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Mega-successful motivational speaker profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Keith Harrell shows how to put good atttitude to work to get ahead in all aspects of lifeKeith Harrell has been taking the corporate lecture circuit—and the media—by storm, and is poised to take his place among the motivational greats of the world. At six feet six inches,... Read more

Business @ the Speed of Thought

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Jonathan Mayrose

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new book, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better today and how it will transform the nature of business in the near future. Gates stresses the need for managers to view technology not as overhead but as a strategic asset, and offers detailed examples from Microsoft, GM, Dell, and many... Read more

Blink

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, the landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a... Read more

Selling the Invisible - Abridged

By: Harry Beckwith

Narrated by: Jeffrey Jones

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with... Read more

The Tipping Point - Abridged

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a... Read more

Rule #1

By: Phil Town

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The clearest and best book out there to get you on the path to riches. This one’s special!”—Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money
 
“Great tools for anyone wanting to dabble in the stock market.”—USA Today
 
Phil Town is a very wealthy man, but he wasn’t always. In fact, he was living on a salary of $4,000 a year when... Read more