Business audiobooks

The Toyota Way to Service Excellence

By: Jeffrey K. Liker & Karyn Ross

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The world’s bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results-The Toyota Way.

A must-read for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the bestselling Toyota Way series and applies them directly to the industries where quality of service is... Read more

A Truck Full of Money

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg

Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola.

Tracy Kidder, the “master of the... Read more

How the Other Half Banks

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has two separate banking systems today―one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted... Read more

The Wealth of Humans

By: Ryan Avent

Narrated by: Scott Merriman

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An investigation of how the digital revolution is fundamentally changing our concept of work, and what it means for our future economy.None of us has ever lived through an industrial revolution. Until now.Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they... Read more

Your Best Health Care Now

By: Frank Lalli

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines, has devoted his career to getting to the bottom of a good story. When he was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a rare but potentially deadly blood cancer, he put his reporter's instincts to work and got the wonder drug he needed at an affordable price—thousands of dollars less than he... Read more

Larry H. Miller: Behind the Drive

By: Bryan Miller

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander, Kirby Heyborne, Kirsten Potte...

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Hear firsthand from multitudes of people whose lives were influenced, inspired, and even transformed by the compassion, generosity, and leadership of Larry H. Miller.Larry H. Miller played by his own rules. Owner of an NBA franchise and founder of one of the country’s largest automotive retail groups, Larry was a college dropout who went on to... Read more

Designing Your Life

By: Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

Narrated by: Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller 

At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage 

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives... Read more

The Fix

By: Jonathan Tepperman

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Jonathan Tepperman

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative look at the world’s most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems—and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them.
 
We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth is sputtering. Income inequality is rising around the... Read more

Find Your Balance Point

By: Brian Tracy & Christina Tracy Stein

Narrated by: Brian Tracy & Christina Tracy Stein

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Accomplish what matters most

Because we all have too much to do, it feels like our lives are out of balance. But Brian Tracy and Christina Stein argue that imbalance results not so much from doing too much but from doing too much of the wrong things. They provide a process that enables you to sort out what is most important to you from among the... Read more

7 Secrets of Persuasion

By: James C. Crimmins, PhD

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

7 Secrets of Persuasion is the first book to take the latest scientific insights about the mind and apply them to the art of persuasion. It directly translates the revolution in neuroscience that has occurred over the last 40 years into practical new techniques for effective persuasion.Whether your goal is to persuade one person—a husband,... Read more

Why high-tech boot camps are appealing

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

To get a job with a good salary, having a college degree is increasingly vital. But degrees are also more and more expensive, and don’t guarantee job placement. Skills-based boot camps may provide one solution, by teaching valuable skills in a short period of time. And support for computer coding camps is flourishing, both from private investors... Read more

Giving students a leg-up with job skills

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When applying to a job out of college, having a top-notch resume isn’t enough anymore. College graduates from top schools apply alongside dozens of similarly qualified candidates. In light of new hiring trends, a program at Georgetown University aims to make their students the best candidates possible, by teaching them skills that will give them... Read more

The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it seems, we hear stories about hackers. Hackers breaking into the computers of banks, governments, and corporations. Some are criminals, coding to exploit and destroy. Others are activists, using their tools to challenge institutions and fight for freedom. But often these characters linger in the shadows. Who are they? What makes... Read more

Sales Success for the Rookie

By: Steve Lentini

Narrated by: Steve Lentini

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From an author, entrepreneur, and businessman with forty years’ experience in sales and management comes a book full of sales advice, inspirational tips, success stories, and a proven system to follow for sales success.This book is geared specifically to those new to the field of sales to help you become personally accountable for what you... Read more

Compensation Systems, Job Performance, and How to Ask for a Pay Raise

By: Dr. Paulett Hemmings Ph.D.

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Employees perform assigned tasks, and the organization pays them for their work productivity. Compensation involves an exchange of labor for pay and benefits, and both the employer and the employee gain value from this transaction. Compensation is comprised of many different types of rewards and recognitions. Reward systems include base pay,... Read more

Dropshipping

By: Efron Hirsch

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Dropshipping is increasingly becoming popular. In fact, today, many online business enthusiasts consider it an easy and lucrative online business approach. If dropshipping intrigues you, and your interest in starting a dropshipping empire is at an all-time high, this book will prove quite useful. Designed to be the complete dropshipping guide,... Read more

How To Be A Great Boss

By: Rene Boer & Gino Wickman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If your employees brought their "A-Game" to work every day, what would it mean for your company's performance?

Studies have repeatedly shown that the majority of employees are disengaged at work. But it doesn't have to be this way. Often, the difference between a group of indifferent employees and a fully engaged team comes down to one simple... Read more

The Upside of Inequality

By: Edward Conard

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Unintended Consequences comes another bold and contrarian book by the man who famously defended capitalism and the one percent at the height of the Occupy movement.
 
Conventional wisdom says income inequality is rising and harmful to nearly everyone, and the rich are to blame. But as Ed Conard shows,... Read more

The Age of Sustainable Development

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey D. Sachs has shown himself to be one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development in his groundbreaking books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Now, in this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can address the... Read more

Feminist Fight Club

By: Jessica Bennett

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Jessica Bennett

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would... Read more

Writing Without Bullshit

By: Josh Bernoff

Narrated by: Josh Bernoff

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of classics like The Elements of Style and On Writing Well, Writing Without Bullshit helps professionals get to the point to get ahead. It’s time for Writing Without Bullshit.Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today’s world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on a... Read more

A Perfect Score

By: Kathryn Hall & Craig Hall

Narrated by: Kathryn Hall & Craig Hall

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively husband and wife team recounts their twenty-year climb from amateur winemakers to recipients of an almost unheard-of perfect score from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.
Kathryn and Craig Hall launched themselves head first into Napa Valley 20 years ago with the purchase of an 1885 winery and never looked back. Since the couple's purchase... Read more

The Power of When

By: Michael Breus

Narrated by: Michael Breus

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Learn the best time to do everything -- from drink your coffee to have sex or go for a run -- according to your body's chronotype.

Most advice centers on what to do, or how to do it, and ignores the when of success. But exciting new research proves there is a right time to do just about everything, based on our biology and hormones.

As Dr.... Read more

Turbo Charge

By: Terri Levine

Narrated by: Laura Chase

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to grow your business and create more profitability and more fun in your business from one of today’s top coaching and consulting experts. Achieve the same success she has shared with clients over the past several decades and finally enjoy the business success you deserve. Read more