Business audiobooks

Beyond the Babble

By: Bob Matha & Macy Boehm

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Discover how to connect with and inspire employees throughout an organization.
Improve your leadership skills -- even if you aren't a "natural" communicator -- with a specific communication strategy that anyone can use. Authors Matha and Boehm present research showing that all managers can improve performance by using the principles outlined in... Read more

Bourgeois Dignity

By: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade,... Read more

The Ways to New

By: Jean-Marie Dru

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Break free and lead the market with the roadmap to Disruption
The Ways to New gives you a blueprint for innovation, helping you dig your organization out of the quicksand and get on the fast track to growth. Author Jean-Marie Dru is the originator the Disruption methodology, which he shares here; he is also an international authority on breaking... Read more

The Four Mindsets

By: Anna-Lucia Mackay

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Connect, focus, align, and activate your team to increase performance fast
The Four Mindsets: How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead High Performance Teams holds the key to significantly increasing productivity, performance, and revenue in your organisation. Developed as a guide proven to help all levels of managers to connect, focus, align and... Read more

Predictive Marketing

By: Dominique Levin & Omer Artun

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Make personalized marketing a reality with this practical guide to predictive analytics
Predictive Marketing is a predictive analytics primer for organizations large and small, offering practical tips and actionable strategies for implementing more personalized marketing immediately. The marketing paradigm is changing, and this book provides a... Read more

The Wisdom of Teams

By: Douglas K. Smith & Jon R. Katzenbach

Narrated by: Jordan Harrold

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors' clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the... Read more

What You Really Need to Lead

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT MAKES A LEADER? CAN YOU REALLY LEARN TO LEAD? You might believe that leaders are born, not made. Perhaps you think that you need to hold an important job to be a leader-that you need permission to lead. Leadership is one of the most important aspects of our society. Yet there is enormous disagreement and confusion about what leadership... Read more

Stimm-Work-Out I

By: Inés Hoelter

Narrated by: Inés Hoelter

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Wissenswertes und Übungen zum perfekten Stimmeinsatz Eine gut ausgebildete und eingesetzte Stimme ist ein wichtiger Schlüssel für Erfolg und Überzeugungskraft. Während der INHALT des Gesagten nur 7% ausmacht, machen STIMME und Körpersprache die restlichen 93% aus. Machen Sie sich dieses Wissen zu nutze und bauen Sie mit dem "Stimm-Work-Out I"... Read more

Master Your Time in 10 Minutes a Day

By: Michal Stawicki

Narrated by: Dan Culhane

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Your dreams can coexist with your life
Jobs. Kids. Chores. Bills. Life has an uncanny ability to get in the way of our dreams. But, this doesn't need to be the case. Michal Stawicki shares his techniques for extreme productivity. As a busy, working parent of three, Michal still manages to follow his dreams prolifically.
How prolifically?
Using the... Read more

Business Models for Teams

By: Tim Clark & Bruce Hazen

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will do for teamwork what the cult classic Business Model Generation did for strategy.In 2010, Tim Clark helped create Business Model Generation, a groundbreaking global bestseller on how enterprises deliver value customers. In 2012, Clark and partner Bruce Hazen followed up with Business Model You, pioneering the personal business... Read more

Cultivate

By: Lara Casey

Narrated by: Lara Casey

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A flourishing, fulfilling life is possible—no perfection required!Too many of us think we have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead of feeling put together, we end up feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as we try to figure out how to do it all.Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey has been... Read more

Machine, Platform, Crowd

By: Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge the limitations of their futurology and avoid over-simplification.” ―Financial TimesIn The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of... Read more

Extraordinary PR, Ordinary Budget

By: Jennifer R. Farmer

Narrated by: Caroline Miller

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For many small organizations and businesses, it can be tempting to think that traditional PR is too expensive. Media relations and PR expert Jennifer R. Farmer shows that you don't need a big budget to make a big impact.


The success of an organization, whether it is a nonprofit or an entrepreneurial venture, depends on a proactive and robust... Read more

Extraordinary PR, Ordinary Budget

By: Jennifer R. Farmer

Narrated by: Caroline Miller

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Low Cost, High Impact!

Public relations is a make-or-break factor for all organizations, especially those that are small or mission driven. While it can be tempting to think that PR is a luxury only larger organizations can afford, PR expert Jennifer R. Farmer shows how her CCRR framework—being credible, creative, responsive, and relentless—is... Read more

Escaping Oz: An Observer's Reflections

By: Jim Mosquera

Narrated by: Jim Mosquera

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s economic and political climate, protecting yourself means asking the right questions. You can’t ask the right questions if your mind’s encumbered by what you think you may understand. Who’s the man behind the curtain? What’s this thing we call money? It’s not what you think.We’ve burdened government with all our problems but do they... Read more

Beyond Competitive Advantage

By: Todd Zenger

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Your company is turning in regular profits every year, and its market share is only getting bigger. Competitors can't touch you. So why is your stock price so sluggish? The answer is as simple as it is cruel: investors aren't interested in history, and they already know you're profitable and competitive-that knowledge is baked into your stock... Read more

The Warren Buffett Portfolio

By: Robert G. Hagstrom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warren Buffett Way provided the first look into the strategies that the master uses to pick stocks. A New York Timesbest seller, it is a valuable and practical primer on the principles behind the remarkable investment run of the famed oracle of Omaha. In this much-awaited companion to that book, author Robert Hagstrom takes the next logical... Read more

Escaping Oz: An Observer's Reflections

By: Jim Mosquera

Narrated by: Jim Mosquera

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's economic and political climate, protecting yourself means asking the right questions. You can't ask the right questions if your mind's encumbered by what you think you may understand. Who's the man behind the curtain? What's this thing we call money? It's not what you think. We've burdened government with all our problems but do they... Read more

The Lean Strategy

By: Michael Balle, Daniel Jones, Orest Fiume & Jacq...

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking and revolutionary book that will transform how lean is understood, practiced, and used within organizations

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to... Read more

The Supply Chain Revolution

By: Suman Sarkar

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When CEOs think about the supply chain, it's usually to cut costs. But the smartest leaders see supply chain and sourcing for what they can be: hidden tools for outperforming the competition. Steve Jobs, upon returning to Apple in 1997, focused on transforming the supply chain. He hired Tim Cook--and the company sped up the development of new... Read more

You Majored In What?

By: Katharine Brooks, EdD

Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“So what are you going to do with your major?”



It’s an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond.



Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you... Read more

The One Device

By: Brian Merchant

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world.

"The One Device is a tour de force, with a fast-paced edge and heaps of analytical insight."-Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk

"A stunning book. You will never look at your iPhone the same way again." -Dan... Read more

Fortune's Formula

By: William Poundstone

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers... Read more

Stick with It

By: Sean D. Young

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior shows everyone how to make real, lasting change in their lives in this exciting work of popular psychology that goes beyond The Power of Habit with science and practical strategies that can alter their problem behaviors—forever.Whether it’s absent-minded mistakes... Read more