Business audiobooks

Killing Sacred Cows

By: Garrett B. Gunderson

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What Will You Learn From this audiobook?

Tackling 9 specific financial myths, Killing Sacred Cows is a must for mission-driven individuals. It plainly reveals these shocking truths kept hidden by the traditional financial industry:

• A 401(k) is not the “safe” and “smart” plan that you have been told it is; in fact, it’s an extremely risky... Read more

The Ostrich Paradox

By: Howard Kunreuther & Robert Meyer

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-hear for everyone who cares about risk.”
—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

We fail to evacuate when advised. We... Read more

You Only Live Once

By: Jason Vitug

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Get your finances in order with smart budgeting and money mindfulness
You Only Live Once is the guide to achieving your best life through smart money moves. Before you even begin making a budget, you need to think about why. Where do you see yourself financially in ten years? Five years? This time next year? What does money do for you? Once you... Read more

The Transformational Consumer

By: Tara-Nicholle Nelson

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Transformational Consumer

They are the most valuable, least understood customers of our time. They buy over $4 trillion in life-improving products and services every year. If you serve their deeply human need to continually improve their lives, they will eagerly engage with your brand at a time when most people are tuning out corporate... Read more

The Leading Brain

By: Hans W. Hagemann & Friederike Fabritius

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A cutting-edge guide to applying the latest research in brain science to leadership - to sharpen performance, encourage innovation, and enhance job satisfaction.

There's a revolution taking place that most businesses are still unaware of. The understanding of how our brains work has radically shifted, exploding long-held myths about our everyday... Read more

Joy at Work

By: Dennis Bakke

Narrated by: Dennis Bakke

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line... Read more

Leading with Noble Purpose

By: Lisa Earle McLeod

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Profit doesn't drive purpose. Purpose drives profit.
We made some incorrect assumptions about work and those assumptions are killing us. We allowed a narrative that is solely about earnings to replace what we know to be true about human motivation.

Human beings are hardwired to seek purpose, but according to data, most people don't feel a sense of... Read more

The Death Money

By: James Rickards

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.”

The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each... Read more

The Transformational Consumer

By: Tara-Nicholle Nelson

Narrated by: Tara-Nicholle Nelson

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of consumers are actively seeking to unlock their potential and looking for businesses that can help. Tara-Nicholle Nelson shows companies how to create a two-way love affair with these "transformational consumers."


The members of a massive and growing customer group are highly engaged with one subject: changing their own behavior to be... Read more

The Agile Marketer

By: Roland Smart

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The marketer's guide to modernizing platforms and practices
Marketing in the digital era is a whole new game: it's fundamentally about competing on the customer experience. Marketers must integrate a complex set of technologies to capture the customer's digital body language—and thereby deliver the right experiences, at the right times, via the... Read more

Unfairly Labeled

By: Jessica Kriegel

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint for managing people, not generations
Unfairly Labeled challenges the very concept of "generational differences" as an unfair generalization, and offers a roadmap to intergenerational understanding. While acknowledging that generational stereotypes exist, author Jessica Kriegel argues that they are wrong—and that it's unreasonable to... Read more

Hacking Marketing

By: Scott Brinker

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Marketing management is racing to keep pace with the technological advances that are disrupting how customers connect and interact with brands. Instead of planning and producing a few big campaigns, marketers today must design and operate an explosion of continuous marketing touchpoints that evolve as quickly as their organization can manage.... Read more

AgeProof

By: Jean Chatzky & Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Jean Chatzky

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're frazzled about five figures worth of debt.... Read more

Unshakeable

By: Tony Robbins & Peter Mallouk

Narrated by: Tony Robbins & Jeremy Bobb

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom with this step-by-step playbook to achieving your financial goals from the #1 New York Times bestseller of Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins.

Robbins, who has coached more than fifty million people from 100 countries, is the world’s #1 life and business strategist. In... Read more

Why Wall Street Matters

By: William D. Cohan

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible—albeit flawed—engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us

Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but... Read more

Rescue Your Money

By: Ric Edelman

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this updated edition of Rescue Your Money, New York Times bestselling author and investment guru Ric Edelman offers no-nonsense, practical advice for how to keep your investments safe in any economic climate.

Everyone knows that the ideal investment strategy is to buy low and sell high. But how do you know what stocks will pay off? And how do... Read more

Attitude

By: Jay Wright, Michael Sheridan & Mark Dagostino

Narrated by: Michael Sheridan

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men’s basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success.

When Kris Jenkins sank a three-pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament,... Read more

Der stille Raub

By: Gerald Hörhan

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Binnen weniger Jahre wird die digitale Revolution die Gesellschaft komplett verändern. Wenige werden reich, viele arm, und die Mittelschicht wird es nur noch in den Geschichtsbüchern geben. Gerald Hörhan, Harvard-Absolvent, Investmentbanker und Internet-Unternehmer, zeigt, was die künftigen Gewinner der digitalen Revolution jetzt tun müssen und... Read more

Agile Product Management: Product Backlog & Minimum Viable Product with Scrum

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Agile product management just got easier. Product Management: 21 Tips to Create and Manage the Product Backlog In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven tips to manage your product backlog as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the product... Read more

Notes on Malcolm Gladwell's Blink by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Susan Murphy

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and NOT the original book.

Preview:

In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less information and making decisions quickly leads to better outcomes in many cases…

Inside this companion... Read more

Das Erdmännchen-Prinzip - Besser führen und managen in schwierigen Zeiten (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber

Narrated by: Stephan Benson

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Lange Zeit hatte ein Erdmännchen-Clan beste Lebensbedingungen in seiner angestammten Heimat. Doch plötzlich bedroht eine schwere Dürre seine Existenz. Das Gemeinschaftsgefühl gerät ins Wanken, als die Erdmännchen über mögliche Lösungen streiten ... 10 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung ihres Top-Bestsellers Das Pinguin-Prinzip präsentieren der... Read more

The Code Economy

By: Philip E. Auerswald

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Code is the "how" of human productive activity. The creation, implementation, and refinement of code have been the infrastructure of human progress from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from the production of Stone Age axes, to the invention of chocolate chip cookies, to the experience of... Read more

She Means Business

By: Carrie Green

Narrated by: Carrie Green

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

More and more women are starting to feel like there are so many opportunities out there to turn their ideas into a reality, build a successful business, and do what they love. The problem is that they don't really know how to go about it, and so they set off on their entrepreneurial journey and quickly feel out of their depth, overwhelmed,... Read more

Unwarranted

By: Barry Friedman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues... Read more