Business audiobooks

The Profit of Kindness

By: Jill Lublin

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When kindness becomes your primary goal, everything changes: how you look at life, what you get from it, and how others interact with and relate to you.

The Profit of Kindness will help you master the art of building trusting, long-lasting relationships through open, nonadversarial interchanges that result in mutually beneficial outcomes. A basic... Read more

Fraud

By: Edward J. Balleisen

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the frontiers of innovation. At the same time, competitive pressures have often nudged respectable... Read more

Beautiful Money

By: Leanne Jacobs

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This revolutionary four-week wealth plan shows you how to stop chasing money and start creating joyful, powerful, and meaningful wealth.

Most of us believe that pounding our way through our days is the only way to prosperity and success. We sacrifice time with our loved ones, our weekends, our vacations, and perhaps even our sanity, in exchange... Read more

Build Your Dream Network

By: J. Kelly Hoey

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Cut through the networking noise and start building the powerful, real relationships needed to succeed in our digital world

If you think of networking as schmoozing at boring cocktail parties or scrolling through LinkedIn for new contacts to add, think again. In the social media age, you need a modern roadmap for creating and cultivating... Read more

Happy as a Dane

By: Malene Rydahl

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.

For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time... Read more

Overcrowded

By: Roberto Verganti

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders -- users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto Verganti offers a new approach -- one that... Read more

Flachsinn

By: Gunter Dueck

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir werden überschwemmt: unsere Smartphones vibrieren bei jeder Headline, unsere Aufmerksamkeit wird besonders vom Schrillen, Extremen und Exotischen eingefangen. Ob in Wirtschaft, Politik, Bildung, überall Kurzwahrheiten im Sekundentakt. Doch was bitte, ist jetzt wichtig? Was stimmt überhaupt? Und ist es uns wirklich wichtig, ob es stimmt? Wer... Read more

Leading from the Front

By: Courtney Lynch & Angie Morgan

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

THE LEADERSHIP BESTSELLER FOR WOMEN--FROM TWO MARINE CORPS CAPTAINS

“A brilliant, original, practical, profound, human, energetic book written by two remarkable women. It's one of the best books on leadership published in the last several years.”

-Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence

Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch weren’t born... Read more

NeuroWisdom

By: Mark Robert Waldman & Chris Manning

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From a course they created for professionals, Mark Waldman and Chris Manning adapted their lectures, and present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to guide listeners on what makes us happy, wealthy, and wise.The promise of their original class—and now of this book—is to help people create more “wealth” in their... Read more

100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

By: Sarah Cooper

Narrated by: Sarah Cooper

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they’re doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling... Read more

The Upstarts

By: Brad Stone

Narrated by: Dean Temple

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store.

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era:... Read more

An Everyone Culture

By: Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L. Mil...

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?



Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such companies—Deliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO... Read more

Small Business Taxes Made Easy, Third Edition

By: Eva Rosenberg

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal Winner



Don’t be taxed out of business! Know your rights and KEEP MORE OF WHAT YOU EARN

It’s great to start a business and be your own boss-but with all the taxes you pay, it sometimes feels like you’re working for the government. This book teaches you ways to work smarter – not harder!

The go-to tax guide for... Read more

Agile Product Management: Scrum: A Cleverly Concise Agile Guide & Kanban and The Kanban Guide, 2nd Edition

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this class, you will be given an exceedingly concise guide yet still a wealth of information to allow you to fully understand how to use agile scrum. I know you will get value from this as it contains the exact methods I have used to deliver projects on time and to a high degree of quality using scrum. I then walk you step by step through the... Read more

The Sales Leader's Problem Solver

By: Suzanne M. Paling

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This is the book every sales manager wishes they had—before they accepted the job. The advice within acts as a 24/7 coach for beleaguered sales leaders dealing with perplexing dilemmas.Sales leaders (managers, directors, and vice presidents) advocate for and often succeed in getting sales training for their reps, but when they request sales... Read more

Activate Human Capital

By: Richard N. Morrison

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last half century, college textbooks on management have taught the importance of valuing the human assets of a business, and they have also focused on how to effectively and appropriately manage those assets. And yet, we look around and rarely see it practiced.
In Activate Human Capital, author Richard N. Morrison outlines the eight... Read more

Your phone is trying to control your life

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you're killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you. Former Google employee Tristan Harris felt something needed to be done to combat tech designers' relentless efforts to influence our behavior. Special correspondent Cat Wise talks to Harris as part of... Read more

The Kanban Guide: For the Business, Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Support Team, 2nd Edition

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Creating the most efficient system for your business, development team, support team or any other organization can often be a game of trial an error. We spend years aiming to create efficient practices which meet the demands of our customers as quickly as possible without overspending our effort, time or money. Imagine if there was a system that... Read more

Agile Product Management Box Set: Scrum Master 21 Sprint Problems, Impediments and Solutions & Sprint Retrospective: 29 Tips for Continuous Improvement with Scrum

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The road to becoming a professional scrum master is exciting and challenging. Therefore, I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the scrum master. I then walk you step by step through the differences between a scrum master and a traditional project manager. Following this, I will give you... Read more

Ask Yourself A Better Question

By: Dre Baldwin

Narrated by: Dre Baldwin

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The questions we ask ourselves determine our lives. Our thoughts are nothing more than a continuous question-and-answer session we have with ourselves. Our lives - material, emotional, spiritual, and financial - are a direct reflection of our thoughts. Eighty-five percent of these thoughts are both habitual and unconscious. Meaning, we are... Read more

Are you hanging off a financial cliff?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth White was once comfortably middle class, but recently she has been severely underemployed. Now as she approaches the traditional age for retirement, she is struggling to make ends meet, and her story is not uncommon. Economics correspondent Paul Solman brings us part two of their conversation with advice for the financially fragile. Read more

How to Start an Online Business (Box Set): How to Start an Online Business & Productivity at Work 21 Tips

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

It is extremely important for businesses to evolve with times and adapt to all the newest trends. In this day and age where everything is Internet-oriented, online businesses seem to be booming, and will continue to flourish in the years to come. Ever since businesses decided to move from real streets to virtual alleys, there seems to be an... Read more

Closing the Courthouse Door

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of... Read more

Agile Product Management: Scrum Master: 21 Sprint Problems, Impediments and Solutions & Daily Scrum: 21 Tips to Co-ordinate Your Team

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven solutions that you can use to effectively solve common problems and improve the productivity of your agile scrum teams. Delivering complex projects is never a straight line. Therefore, I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a brief introduction to the concept of the... Read more