Business audiobooks

Essentialism

By: Greg McKeown

Narrated by: Greg McKeown

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE LIFE-CHANGING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD

“Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: How can we do less but accomplish more?”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again

Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.

Have... Read more

Work Won't Love You Back

By: Sarah Jaffe

Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more

Subtract

By: Leidy Klotz

Narrated by: Leidy Klotz & Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction and epilogue read by the author.

Blending evidence across science and design, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers a revolution in problem-solving: proving why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential

We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings.” We create incentives... Read more

Bad Blood

By: John Carreyrou

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword.

“Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story]... Read more

Made to Stick

By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick.

“Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—The Washington Post
 
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway... Read more

Insight

By: Tasha Eurich

Narrated by: Tasha Eurich

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people feel like they know themselves pretty well. But what if you could know yourself just a little bit better—and with this small improvement, get a big payoff…not just in your career, but in your life?
 
Research shows that self-awareness – knowing who we are and how others see us – is the foundation for high performance, smart choices,... Read more

Win Every Argument

By: Mehdi Hasan

Narrated by: Mehdi Hasan

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by and contains archival audio of the author from MSNBC, BBC Question Time, Oxford Union, and other sources.

Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit-for-tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world.

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan isn’t one to... Read more

People Buy You

By: Jeb Blount

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Far too many of todays books on sales and selling deal with the mechanics of selling and pay little or no attention to the emotional-side of selling; however, when all things are equal (and in todays competitive world they almost always are) people buy you--the salesperson. Designed to connect sellers to buyers, People Buy You makes it... Read more

How to Change

By: Katy Milkman

Narrated by: Katy Milkman & Angela Duckworth

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal bestseller

“A welcome revelation.” --The Financial Times

Award-winning Wharton Professor and Choiceology podcast host Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behavior change. In this ground-breaking book, Milkman reveals a proven path that can take you from where you are to where you want to be, with a foreword from... Read more

Surrounded by Idiots

By: Thomas Erikson

Narrated by: David John

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?

You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was... Read more

The Catalyst

By: Jonah Berger

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jonah Berger is one of those rare thinkers who blends research-based insights with immensely practical guidance. I am grateful to be one of the many who have learned from this master teacher.” —Jim Collins, author Good to Great, coauthor Built to Last

From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence comes a... Read more

The Ride of a Lifetime

By: Robert Iger

Narrated by: Jim Frangione & Robert Iger

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The CEO of Disney shares the ideas and values he embraced while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life.

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult... Read more

Power and Progress

By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world.

Throughout history, technological change — whether it... Read more

The Undoing Project

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the... Read more

The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents an infinitely elastic formula for turning our toughest trials into our greatest triumphs.

Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday introduced Stoicism to the world with The Obstacle Is the Way in 2014, this simple but powerful philosophy... Read more

Profit First

By: Mike Michalowicz

Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.

Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is,... Read more

Courage Is Calling

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
 
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more

The Scout Mindset

By: Julia Galef

Narrated by: Julia Galef

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal
 
A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making.

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls... Read more

The Color of Money

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.



The... Read more

The Hidden Globe

By: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

"A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.”—Hamilton Cain,... Read more

Think Faster, Talk Smarter

By: Matt Abrahams

Narrated by: Matt Abrahams

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with these essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast.

“A roadmap to mastering the art of thinking quickly and speaking confidently, this is... Read more

The Wolves of K Street

By: Brody Mullins & Luke Mullins

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a “not-so-guilty pleasure” (The New York Times): irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and impossible to put down.

In the 1970s, Washington’s center of power began to shift away from elected... Read more

Difficult Conversations

By: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen

Narrated by: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask"

We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization... Read more

Keeping Finance Personal

By: Ellyce Fulmore

Narrated by: Ellyce Fulmore

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional approach to personal finance from queer, neurodivergent personal finance educator and TikToker, Ellyce Fulmore.
 
There’s no magic formula for being “good with money.” The perfect budgeting spreadsheet or debt repayment plan will never address the root of your money issues. When Ellyce Fulmore started her journey with personal... Read more