Business audiobooks

More Sales, Less Time

By: Jill Konrath

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"I felt like time was taunting me: 'Behind again? You'll never get it all done.' I worked harder and longer hours, sacrificing my limited personal time to stay ahead of the game. Still, it wasn't sufficient. My work just kept expanding, demanding more of me. I could never seem to call it a day.

In my entire career, I'd never faced a sales problem... Read more

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling

By: Frank Bettger

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A business classic endorsed by Dale Carnegie, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas—or anything else—this book is for you.

When Frank Bettger was twenty-nine he was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was forty... Read more

Killing It

By: Sheryl O'Loughlin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the author’s own sometimes dark, raw experiences. With a foreword by Steve Blank.Aspiring entrepreneurs are told that to... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Dating back to the 5th century B.C.,The Art of War is an ancient Chinese text on military strategy whose teachings have become very influential and popular in the west. Though authorship is attributed to Sun Tzu (Master Sun), many scholars believe the bulk of the text was written by his descendant Sun Bin, who lived some hundred years later. Its... Read more

Your One Word

By: Evan Carmichael

Narrated by: Evan Carmichael

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Evan consumes so much content and then knows how to DJ it to inspire people.”
—Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times bestselling author of #AskGaryVee and Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook

In this bold and empowering guide, entrepreneur and social media sensation Evan Carmichael shares the secret to turbo-charging your path to success on your own terms. With... Read more

Married to the Brand

By: William J. McEwen

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Companies spend millions of dollars every year trying to court consumers. They invest in flashy advertising, celebrity endorsements, loyalty programs, websites ... you name it. And they spend millions more trying to build their businesses through elaborate “relationship management” software.The result? Most marketers still aren’t emotionally... Read more

Not Just Evil

By: David Wilson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body was found days later, delivered to her father by the killer, who fled with the ransom money. When William Hickman was hunted down and charged with the killing, he admitted to all of it, in terrifying detail, but that was... Read more

The Money Pit, Vol. 7

By: Tom Kraeutler & Leslie Segrete

Narrated by: Tom Kraeutler & Leslie Segrete

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Money Pit, named among America’s 100 Most Important Radio Shows by Talkers magazine, Tom Kraeutler and Leslie Segrete combine quick wit and clever advice to help listeners tackle a variety of home improvement and décor projects. These episodes, from February through April 2016, feature the following topics:Feb. 1, 2016How to Quiet a Loud... Read more

Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations

By: Greg Williams

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The success of a negotiation is profoundly affected by how well you read body language. How can you learn to read the subtle clues--many lasting a fraction of a second--that your opponent projects?Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations will help you discover what the “other side” is revealing through body language and microexpressions,... Read more

12

By: Rodd Wagner & James K. Harter, Ph.D.

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a decade ago, Gallup combed through its database of more than 1 million employee and manager interviews to identify the 12 elements most important for sustaining high performance. These were identified in the 1999 bestseller First, Break All the Rules.The Gallup study now includes 9 million employee and manager interviews spanning 114... Read more

Whiplash

By: Joi Ito & Jeff Howe

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting... Read more

Decade of Change

By: Geoffrey Brewer (Editor) & Barb Sanford (Editor)

Narrated by: Tom Parks, Amy McFadden & Scott Merriman

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Change management used to be one of those abstract concepts relegated to business conferences and academic seminars — a nice-to-know topic for discussion, but hardly vital to success.Well, could change have become more real, or more relevant, this past decade?Decade of Change features insights and wisdom into how to manage, and make the most of,... Read more

Whiplash

By: Joi Ito & Jeff Howe

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation. And with any change, we have seen many strategic blunders... Read more

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing

By: Michael D. Smith & Rahul Telang

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it... Read more

The Undoing Project

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the... Read more

The Best of the Gallup Management Journal 2001-2007

By: Geoffrey Brewer (Editor) & Barb Sanford (Editor)

Narrated by: Tom Parks, Amy McFadden & Scott Merriman

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2001, the Gallup Management Journal has provided leaders with essential insights into managing the human side of their businesses — their employees and customers. This book features the highlights of the first seven years of the GMJ: more than 50 thought-provoking articles with actionable ideas, grounded in decades of Gallup management... Read more

Micromessaging

By: Stephen Young

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Big things happen when you think SMALL.

People often convey intended and unintended messages in ways that extend far beyond the words they use. A gesture, a tone, a figure of speech-it’s our unconscious biases that speak volumes. When you understand how they are manifested through “micromessages,” you operate a step ahead of everyone.

This... Read more

Agile Product Management: Product Owner 27 Tips & Productivity at Work 21 Tips

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

I am confident that this class will enable you to learn a multitude of skills since it starts by giving you a full introduction to the concept of scrum and agile product development, scrum and agile principles and a host of other valuable information that will give you a full understanding of the topic. I then walk you through the process of... Read more

Jump

By: Steve Harvey

Narrated by: Mike Hodge

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Steve Harvey helps you engage the Divine Spirit within you to find your life’s desire and use your own imagination to make your life’s vision a reality.
At the beginning of each broadcast of his morning radio show, Steve Harvey offers his millions of listeners a few moments of spiritual advice to inspire and... Read more

Your Creative Mind

By: Scott Cochrane

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Too many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to do. Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create detailed, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy short-term considerations like quarterly earnings reports, but it produces modest innovation and evolutionary... Read more

Agile Product Management: Agile Estimating and Planning Your Sprint with Scrum & Agile Retrospectives 29 Tips for Continuous Improvement

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer & Scott Clem

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

I am very confident that you will find this class valuable, as it will give you a complete overview of estimating and planning in agile scrum teams. In this class, I go to great lengths to dissect the topic and present it in an easy to understand manner for both beginners and intermediates in scrum. For starters, I will introduce you to scrum,... Read more

It's Not the How or the What but the Who

By: Claudio Fernandez-Araoz

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Succeed by mastering the art of the who Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life. In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernandez-Araoz calls "the art of great 'who' decisions"-marks the difference between success and failure. To thrive, you need... Read more

The Risk-Driven Business Model

By: Karan Girotra & Serguei Netessine

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

How to outsmart risk Risk has been defined as the potential for losing something of value. In business, that value could be your original investment or your expected future returns. The Risk-Driven Business Model will help you manage risk better by showing how the key choices you make in designing your business models either increase or reduce... Read more

The Gig Economy

By: Diane Mulcahy

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines…and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy—mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those who’ve figured out the formula, life has never been better!

The Gig Economy is your... Read more