Business audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eyes Wide Open

By: Isaac Lidsky

Narrated by: Isaac Lidsky

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn’t external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.

Fear has a tendency to give us tunnel vision—we fill the unknown... Read more

There Are No Overachievers

By: Brian D. Biro

Narrated by: Brian D. Biro

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In an inspiring new motivational book, management consultant and speaking guru Brian Biro describes how we can seize and act upon the Windows of Opportunity that we encounter to transform our lives.

In There Are No Overachievers, renown speaker and former U.S. Swimming coach Brian Biro distills a lifetime of lessons on how to be more energized... Read more

Extreme Teams

By: Robert Bruce Shaw

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge. Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by doing things differently: hiring the right person instead of the best person; focusing on... Read more

Fearless and Free

By: Wendy Sachs

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We all need to think more like entrepreneurs. Seeking and seizing opportunities, boldly taking risks, quickly changing course—achieving success today requires the kind of action-first, fake-it-‘til-you-make-it ethos celebrated in the tech industry.This formula is not typically a female one. Women tend to be cautious. We overthink our next moves,... Read more

Leadership Step by Step

By: Joshua Spodek

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas—but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills.Leadership Step by Step walks readers through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through... Read more

The Knowledge Illusion

By: Steven Sloman & Philip Fernbach

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker

We all think we know more than we actually do.
 
Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite... Read more

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By: Kim Scott

Narrated by: Kim Scott

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a New York Times bestseller

This program is read by the author.

"Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups. Indispensable."--Gretchen Rubin author of... Read more

The Medici Effect

By: Frans Johansson

Narrated by: Frans Johansson

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.



Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring... Read more

Fortune Makers

By: Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang & Peter...

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large American corporation tick. Similarly, The Art of Japanese Management by Richard Pascale in 1981 explained the unique practices developed by the Japanese to bring that country’s economy out of the ashes. The emerging Chinese juggernauts—the Alibabas,... Read more

The Seven Money Types

By: Tommy Brown

Narrated by: Joey Collins

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Referred to as The Five Love Languages for money, The Seven Money Types helps readers identify how God has wired them to think about, feel toward, and handle money and how that knowledge affects their financial well-being. "True financial well-being involves more than getting out of debt and accumulating wealth.. It's about discovering how... Read more

The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution

By: Ganesh Sitaraman

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
 
For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was... Read more

Leaders Made Here

By: Mark Miller

Narrated by: Joe Bronzi

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaders Made Here
Great leaders create great organizations. However, a scarcity of leaders today means a shortfall in performance tomorrow. Don't gamble with your company's future!

You don't need to hope that leaders emerge from the ranks or that search firms can find the leaders you need in a timely fashion. Hope is not a strategy! You can build... Read more

Leaders Made Here

By: Mark Miller

Narrated by: Joe Bronzi

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Every organization dreams of having enough leaders, and yet so few do; bestselling author Mark Miller shows how any organization can build its leadership capacity from the ground up to the C-suite.


The most important attribute high-performing organizations have in common is that they are well led. Every organization dreams of having enough... Read more

How Innovation Really Works

By: Anne Marie Knott

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you spending too much on R&D? Too little? Is your innovation program successful? And how do you measure that success?

Your company is spending millions on R&D every year, but despite your best efforts, that R&D isn’t driving growth. If you’re like 95% of firms, you aren’t investing the right amount, and the productivity of your... Read more

Born on Third Base

By: Chuck Collins

Narrated by: Chuck Collins

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further... Read more

Sorry I'm Late

By: Landon T. Smith

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that you were rich? That in fact, every single person around you is also rich? What if I were to tell you that you had a bank account that replenished every single day without fail! Well, believe it or not, but wealth isn’t just about money, it’s also about time. If you’re someone who has always struggled with managing your time... Read more

Irresistible

By: Adam Alter

Narrated by: Adam Alter

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers

“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are... Read more