Business audiobooks

Optimismus

By: Jens Weidner

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Erfolg braucht Optimismus. Aber nicht jeden! Für sie ist das Glas halb voll, nicht halb leer. Sie sehen die Chancen, ohne die Risiken zu ignorieren. Sie wägen innerlich ab, treffen Entscheidungen und ziehen sie durch - selbst unter Druck und gegen Widerstände. Ist dieser intelligente Optimismus angeboren oder kann man ihn lernen? Jens Weidner,... Read more

Agile Product Management: Scrum Product Owner: 21 Tips for Working with Your Scrum Master & Sprint Retrospective: 29 Tips for Continuous Improvement

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Agile product management just got easier! Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, 21 Tips for Working with Your Scrum Master. In this class, you will be given a complete set of tips for maximizing and improving your working relationship with your scrum master. This will in turn boost the productivity of yourself and your scrum master... Read more

Streampunks

By: Robert Kyncl & Maany Peyvan

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertainment and tech insider—YouTube’s chief business officer—delivers the first detailed account of the rise of YouTube, the creative minds who have capitalized on it to become pop culture stars, and how streaming video is revolutionizing the media world.In the past ten years, the internet video platform YouTube has changed media and... Read more

More Than Just Making It

By: Erin Odom

Narrated by: Michelle Lasley

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

More Than Just Making It is your invitation to reimagine what the good life can be. Join Erin Odom, a mom thrown into low-income living, to learn how to overcome your circumstances, find creative ways to earn and save, and reset your heart and budget according to God’s designs.When you're trapped in a cycle of financial frustration, and you feel... Read more

Thriving in the Gig Economy

By: Marion McGovern

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last five years, the world of work has changed dramatically. Thanks to technology companies like Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Instacart, the new “gig economy” seems to constantly be in the news. But most of the media focus is on the low end of the skill spectrum; little attention is being paid to the best-in-class professionals who have... Read more

Thinkertoys

By: Michael Michalko

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Rethink the Way You Think
 
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?
In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this... Read more

The Landlord Entrepreneur

By: Bryan M. Chavis

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first book, real estate expert Bryan Chavis created the ultimate how-to guide for buying and managing rental properties, with practical, realistic ways to build lasting, long-term wealth. Now, he takes his acclaimed program one step further.



The Landlord Entrepreneur shifts the focus from dealing exclusively with residential real estate to... Read more

The New Leadership Literacies

By: Bob Johansen

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Our future will be radically decentralized, digitized, and disrupted. Leaders will need more than just skills to survive. Veteran futurist Bob Johansen offers five literacies-combinations of discipline, practices, and perspective-for thriving in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.


A rapid and massively disruptive shift from... Read more

The New Leadership Literacies

By: Bob Johansen

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the next decade, today's connected world will be explosively more connected. Anything that can be distributed will be distributed: workforces, organizations, supply webs, and more. The tired practices of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized. Rigid hierarchies will give way to... Read more

Agile Product Management: Daily Scrum 21 Tips & Product Backlog 21 Tips

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Agile product management just got easier. Hello, thank you and congratulations for taking this class, Daily Scrum: 21 Tips to Co-Ordinate Your Team with Standup Meetings and Create a Daily Plan. This class contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve your daily scrum (stand-up) meeting as part of an agile scrum team. I am sure you will... Read more

Bored and Brilliant

By: Manoush Zomorodi

Narrated by: Manoush Zomorodi

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

*An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner*

This program is read by the author.

"In this spirited exploration of our relationship with technological devices, Zomorodi's melodic voice beckons and inspires listeners to develop a deeper understanding of how tech devices affect our potential...Zomorodi persuasively conveys her compelling points on... Read more

The Rights of Nature

By: David R. Boyd

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building—in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to... Read more

Find Your Why

By: Simon Sinek, David Mead & Peter Docker

Narrated by: Stephen Shedletzky & Simon Sinek

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Start With Why has led millions of readers to rethink everything they do – in their personal lives, their careers and their organizations.

Now Find Your Why picks up where Start With Why left off. It shows you how to apply Simon Sinek’s powerful insights so that you can find more inspiration at work -- and in turn inspire those around you.
 
... Read more

How to Be Happy at Work

By: Annie McKee

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Life's too short to be unhappy at work "I'm working harder than I ever have, and I don't know if it's worth it anymore." If you're a manager or leader, these words have probably run through your mind. So many of us are feeling fed up, burned out, and unhappy at work: the constant pressure and stress, the unending changes, the politics--people... Read more

The 2-Hour Job Search

By: Steve Dalton

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2-Hour Job Search shows job seekers how to work smarter (and faster) to secure first interviews. Through a prescriptive approach, Steve Dalton explains how to wade through the Internet's sea of information and create a job search system that relies on mainstream technology such as Excel, Google, LinkedIn, and alumni databases to create a... Read more

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

By: Jason Schreier

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes listeners on a fascinating odyssey behind... Read more

Unleashing the Innovators

By: Jim Stengel & Tom Post

Narrated by: Jim Stengel

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's established companies must find new ways to reignite their entrepreneurial DNA and jumpstart revenues--or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, Jim Stengel, renowned consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, says that legacy companies can renew... Read more

STRUT

By: Samar Shera

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Insightful and motivational, confident and spiritual, thought-provoking and funny, STRUT offers a voice of courage and inspiration that is unmistakably clear: a woman is powerful enough to redefine the life she lives, and to become something vitally important to this new world—a leader of change.Women are often taught they have little power.... Read more

The Potential Principle

By: Mark Sanborn

Narrated by: Alan Taylor

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate strategy for succeeding in your personal and professional life.Are you living up to your true potential? Do you feel like you have more potential? You may be the best in your field—the best athlete, scholar, CEO, parent, mathematician, teacher, or mechanic. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still be better; you haven’t maximized your... Read more

Let the Story Do the Work

By: Esther K. Choy

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It sounds so simple: Tell stories from your life, and people will remember your message. But when you get down to crafting one, there’s nothing easy about it.Material for stories surrounds us. Yet few people are skilled at sharing personal anecdotes and even fewer know how to link them to professional goals. Whether you want to stand out in the... Read more

Crash Override

By: Zoë Quinn

Narrated by: Zoë Quinn

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet -- hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn -- but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.

Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post... Read more

Courtroom 302

By: Steve Bogira

Narrated by: Mark Kamish

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily... Read more

The Power of People Skills

By: Trevor Throness

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

People are the problem. They’re always the problem. If a business person goes home frustrated, if they talk with their significant other about it, if they lay awake at night stewing about it, inevitably the problem is some person at work—a colleague, subordinate, or boss.Handling people issues is every leader’s major headache. It’s what takes up... Read more

Champions Way

By: Mike McIntire

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Champions Way is a searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.



College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles... Read more