Business audiobooks

Visibility Marketing

By: David Avrin

Narrated by: David Avrin

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The landscape is littered with the corpses of great products and strong companies that died because of crappy marketing.Why do so many companies fail so miserably? Why do high-priced ad agencies and marketing firms keep spitting out stupid campaigns?Too many in business have failed to recognize the shift that has happened right under their... Read more

Agile Estimating & Planning Your Sprint with Scrum

By: Paul VII

Narrated by: Scott Clem

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this class, you will be given proven tips to help you to estimate and plan sprints as part of your scrum projects. 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... Read more

How Legal Hermeneutics Can Assist The Theologian

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Montgomery

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An introduction to principles used in interpreting documents in the field of law, and their application in the field of theology. An address to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1994. Read more

Law And Morality

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Montgomery

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Montgomery's inaugural lecture on the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Luton, England. Do law and morals have an essential interrelationship? If so, from where can moral values justifiably be derived? Read more

Postmodern Deconstruction – Good And Bad Legal Reasoning

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Warwick Montgomery

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An analysis and critique of "deconstructionism" in the field of law, and a sometimes hilarious examination of examples of lawyers' reasoning. Read more

Good Authority

By: Jonathan Raymond

Narrated by: Jonathan Raymond

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a world where personal and professional growth are combined, where improving your relationships and owning your strengths at work translate directly into the rest of your life.Creating a company culture like that is not a dream. Through personal stories and real-life conversations, Jonathan Raymond takes you into the room with managers... Read more

The New Better Off

By: Courtney E. Martin

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we living the good life—and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The New Better Off puts a name to the American phenomenon of... Read more

High-Profit Prospecting

By: Mark Hunter

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As a salesperson, your pipeline is the key to your success. No matter what changes, that remains the same. Top producers prospect--and they do it ALL THE TIME. "But how?" you ask, "In the age of the Internet, isn't cold-calling dead?" Now, in his new audiobook, sales expert Mark Hunter shatters costly prospecting myths and eliminates confusion... Read more

Utopia Is Creepy

By: Nicholas Carr

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is... Read more

Pivot

By: Jenny Blake

Narrated by: Jenny Blake

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Blake, author of Life After College and former career development program manager at Google, reveals how to methodically make your next career move by doubling down on what is already working.

Careers are not linear, predictable ladders any longer; they are fluid trajectories. No matter our age, life stage, bank account balance, or... Read more

I Will Hold

By: James Carl Nelson

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps.

Cates knew that he and his small band of marines were in a desperate spot. Before handing the note over to a runner, he added three words that would resound through Marine Corps history:

I WILL... Read more

How to Create Your Own High Paying Job

By: Dr. Gary S. Goodman

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you unemployed?

Or, are you overworked, underpaid, and stuck in a lifeless job, reporting to someone who doesn't seem to be doing much better than you are?

You're not alone.

Corporations once needed large inflows of middle managers and the formally educated. Many of these posts have disappeared or have been displaced by outsourcing, offshoring,... Read more

30 Minuten Generation Y - Abridged

By: Martina Mangelsdorf

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

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Generation Y ist als Schlagwort längst in aller Munde, bezeichnet es doch die ab 1980 geborenen jungen Nachwuchstalente, die Personalverantwortliche und Führungskräfte vor neue Herausforderungen stellen. Anspruchsvolle Individualisten seien das, durch und durch sozial vernetzt, schnell gelangweilt – und den Vertretern früherer Generationen ein... Read more

How this Farming Project Helps Afghan Women Grow Financial Independence

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 15 years since the U.S. went into Afghanistan, $1.5 billion has been spent to develop women’s rights in the country. But even with significant improvements, there remain many hardships, including domestic violence and the lack of educational opportunity. Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse visits a farming project that aims to provide... Read more

Parachuting Cats into Borneo

By: Axel Klimek & Alan AtKisson

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A toolkit of proven strategies and practices for building capacity and creating transformation Recent years have seen a proliferation of information on how to make change—in business, in social and environmental movements, and on a more personal scale. But, even with all this attention, two out of three change efforts fail to achieve their... Read more

FAQ Rhetorik Coaching - Abridged

By: Thomas Schlayer

Narrated by: Ralph Wagner

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rede-Denk-Experte Thomas Schlayer beantwortet in diesem Ratgeber 62 häufig gestellte Fragen rund um die tägliche Kommunikation: Wie kann ich besser auf andere wirken? Wie kann ich mich sicherer fühlen? Welche Gedanken brauche ich, wenn ich Ängste abbauen möchte? Welche Feinheiten in meiner Sprache oder im Auftreten lassen mich "besser"... Read more

For African-American Female Entrepreneurs, Funding Challenges Call for Creative Bootstrapping

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour’s April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes and gotten resourceful to launch their ventures. Read more

Project Manager Technology Suite

By: Dawn Jones & Sherry Prindle

Narrated by: Dawn Jones & Sherry Prindle

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

You may be a project manager or a stakeholder with “street smarts.” Maybe you have expertise in the nuts-and-bolts of project execution. Or you might be a “book-smart” expert on the rules and tools of the trade. Whatever your strengths, most project managers agree it’s a juggling act to balance people and processes.Nearly every project requires... Read more

Brand, Meet Story

By: Heather Pemberton Levy

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Think of the last great article you read or the last great speech you heard. Chances are, if you remember one key message, you also remember one compelling story. That's because the best content starts with a story. When it comes to marketing, the best business content starts with a story the audience cares about, not the brand's message about... Read more

This company raised minimum wage to $70K

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2015, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price announced he would raise the company’s minimum wage to $70,000 a year by 2017 and slash his own compensation by more than 90 percent. More than a year later, Price reports the company's revenue and clientele has grown substantially, despite critics' predictions that the move would be bad for business.... Read more

The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader

By: Thomas Barta & Patrick Barwise

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL MARKETING LEADER?

The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader, by former McKinsey Partner Thomas Barta and senior London Business School professor Patrick Barwise, is the first research-based leadership book for marketers in the 21st century. Based on the largest ever research study of its kind, with detailed data... Read more

Trending Topic

By: Gerrit Heijkoop & Paula Vos

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor VanWely has no use for social media. But now the executive director of the National Society of Rodent Professionals (NatSoRoPro) is facing the biggest challenge yet in his career: organizing the annual world conference Rodentia. Things are not looking well. They are far behind on registrations, their budget is depleted and the chairman of... Read more

Simply Brilliant

By: William C. Taylor

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Cofounder of Fast Company magazine and bestselling author of Mavericks at Work and Practically Radical shows how true business innovation can spring from the unlikeliest places.
 
Far away from Silicon Valley, in familiar, traditional, even unglamorous fields, ordinary people are unleashing extraordinary advances that amaze customers, energize... Read more

Power Your Happy

By: Lisa Sugar

Narrated by: Lisa Sugar

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at POPSUGAR creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters... Read more