Business audiobooks

Goal Setting

By: Susan B. Wilson & Michael S. Dobson

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s hectic work environment, the chances are that you have way too much to do and too little time to get it done. No matter how accomplished and capable you are, achieving your goals can seem almost insurmountable. Why is it that some people consistently seem to get more done than others? The answer is that they know how to set specific,... Read more

The Spider Network

By: David Enrich

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history.In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the... Read more

Boss Bitch

By: Nicole Lapin

Narrated by: Nicole Lapin

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin is back with a sassy and actionable guide empowering women to be the boss of their own lives and careers.
 
You don’t need dozens or hundreds of employees to be a boss, says financial expert and serial entrepreneur Nicole Lapin. Hell, you don’t even need one. You just need to be confident, savvy, and... Read more

The Cyanide Canary

By: Robert Dugoni & Joseph Hilldorfer

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the morning on August 27, 1996, twenty-year-old Scott Dominguez showed up for an ordinary day at the fertilizing plant where he worked. By 11:00 a.m., he was clinging to life, unconscious and suffocating from toxic exposure to cyanide in a tank that was supposed to contain only mud and water.



EPA Special Agent Joseph Hilldorfer was... Read more

Superfandom

By: Aaron M. Glazer & Zoe Fraade-Blanar

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given all organizations?from traditional businesses to tech startups?direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it's easy to forget that this access flows both ways. This is the... Read more

Seasteading

By: Joe Quirk & Patri Friedman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Our planet is suffering from serious environmental problems: coastal flooding due to severe storms caused in part by atmospheric pollution, diminishing natural resources such as clean water, and so on. But while these problems plague Planet Earth, two-thirds of our globe is Planet Ocean. The seas can be home to pioneers, seasteaders, who are... Read more

Gen Z @ Work

By: David Stillman & Jonah Stillman

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright & Graham Halstead

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce—Generation Z—in this essential study, the first on the subject.They were born between between 1995 and 2012. At 72.8 million strong, Gen Z is about to make... Read more

Talent Unleashed

By: Shawn D. Moon, Todd Davis, Michael Simpson & A....

Narrated by: Shawn D. Moon

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A leader's job is to unleash the unlimited store of potential in people."The vast majority of the workforce in any organization possesses far more talent, intelligence, capability, and creativity than their present jobs require or even allow.” - Dr. Stephen R. CoveyThat’s what Talent Unleashed is about—unleashing that unlimited store of... Read more

Simply Clean

By: Becky Rapinchuk

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.

Becky Rapinchuk, the “Clean Mama,” understands that many people don’t have the time, organizational skills, or homemaking habits... Read more

Sensemaking

By: Christian Madsbjerg

Narrated by: Jeremy Maxwell

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, and an urgent, overdue defense of human intelligence.

Humans have become subservient to algorithms. Every day brings a new Moneyball fix--a math... Read more

Permission to Speak Freely

By: Matt Kincaid & Doug Crandall

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Lead So Your People Speak Freely

Candid communication enhances innovation, ownership, engagement, and performance. The benefits of hearing questions and uncertainties, good and bad ideas, and honest feedback are game-changing. Yet research shows that most of the time, people never share their true thoughts with each other—and especially not with... Read more

Cultural Intelligence, 3rd Edition

By: Kerr C. Inkson & David C. Thomas

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In our ever-expanding globalized world, this classic on navigating intercultural relationships is even more relevant than when it first came out; this new revised edition now focuses on how to actively develop your cultural IQ.


Globalization means that we need to be prepared to interact with people from a wide range of cultures. But it's... Read more

Permission to Speak Freely

By: Doug Crandall & Matt Kincaid

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What if some of the most powerful words in your organization were "I'm not sure," "I need help," and "I have a new idea"? Imagine the potential for innovation, connection, and results if your employees felt courageous enough to say anything to you.


What if people could simply communicate what they are really thinking without fear of having a bad... Read more

The Career Catapult

By: Roopa Unnikrishnan

Narrated by: Roopa Unnikrishnan

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in an evolving economic environment, one in which job security and career certainty are distant memories. The old rules for navigating the turbulent waters of employment just don’t apply anymore. In the face of these ongoing changes, it’s easy to become fearful and discouraged.In The Career Catapult, innovative career consultant Roopa... Read more

Cultural Intelligence

By: David C. Thomas & Kerr C. Inkson

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Succeed in Any Culture, in Every Situation

In today's global economy, the ability to interact effectively across cultures is a fundamental job requirement for just about everyone. But it's impossible to learn the customs and traits of every single culture. David Thomas and Kerr Inkson present a universal set of techniques and people skills that... Read more

TopSelling

By: Klaus-J. Fink

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel & Gabi Franke

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Verkäufer zu sein ist Berufung – kein Job. Wenn Sie sich für diesen schwierigen, aber schönen und herausfordernden Beruf entschieden haben, dann können Sie Ihre Erfolge noch verstärken, wenn Sie die vier Faktoren für mehr Umsatz und Gewinn beherzigen und für sich realisieren, die Klaus-J. Fink aus seiner mehr als 20-jährigen Erfahrung als... Read more

Don’t Retire Broke

By: Rick Rodgers

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Retirement planning was simple and predictable forty years ago. All you needed was your company pension, personal savings, and Social Security.Those days are long gone. Most public pensions are underfunded, and private companies can’t get rid of them fast enough. Social Security’s own trustees predict it will run out of money in less than twenty... Read more

30 Minuten Werteorientiertes Führen - Abridged

By: Rainer Krumm

Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi, Sonngard Dressler & Gordon Pied...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mitarbeiter haben heute eine andere Erwartung an ihre Vorgesetzten. Führung ist mittlerweile der "Blick über den Tellerrand", der es einer Führungskraft ermöglicht, das eigene Welt- und Werteverständnis zu verlassen und das des Unternehmens und der Mitarbeiter einzusehen und zu verstehen. Um dieser Herausforderung gerecht zu werden, entwickelte... Read more

Accelerate

By: John P. Kotter

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.It’s a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does––but not fast enough.... Read more

Leading Digital

By: Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee & George Westerman

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Become a Digital Master-No Matter What Business You're In If you think the phrase "going digital" is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment-think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing have already fundamentally changed the entire business landscape as we know it-including your... Read more

The Secret Handshake

By: Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This ground-breaking work offers access to the boardroom, and advice on getting noticed, networking, persuasion and mastering the art of quid pro quo. A professor of management and highly sought-after consultant, Kathleen Kelley Reardon has worked with many of the nation's leading corporations. Drawing on interviews with executives from Fortune... Read more

Why is job opportunity still lagging for people with disabilities?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The unemployment rate for people with a disability is more than double than for those without. Even though the law bars such discrimination, it can be difficult for these Americans to get hired. But that’s not the full story: Some employers are seeing how the special abilities of workers on the autism spectrum can boost their bottom lines.... Read more

Going Public

By: Norm Champ

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider’s look at the SEC and the changes needed to strengthen the U.S. financial system

In 2008, Americans were reeling from the devastating financial crisis that caused the Great Recession. There were searing questions about how the crisis was allowed to happen and calls for immediate reform from Capital Hill, the news media, and the general... Read more

Be a Hero

By: Alan Knott-Craig

Narrated by: Alan Knott-Craig

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you ever feel like you're making unnecessary mistakes?Do you wish you had a shortcut to learning from other people?Do you want to be a hero?This audiobook is a collection of stories on how make your life an adventure but also changing your mind-set and tackling adversity. Read more