Business audiobooks

Reasons To Be Against International Trade Restrictions

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Al Remington

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Trade restrictions can hinder countries from engaging in trade with others for various reasons, which differ from one nation to another. This brief guide outlines four possible reasons why a business might oppose specific trade restrictions, providing examples for some reasons. The explanations are broad enough to be useful for anyone interested... Read more

Do Over

By: Jon Acuff

Narrated by: Jon Acuff

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The get ready, get going guide to navigating career change and doing work you love!New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff has drawn millions of online fans who love his refreshing mix of humor, honesty, and wisdom about the world of work. Now he offers his most important book yet, a guide to making big career changes—by choice or... Read more

The Complete 101 Collection

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Get everything you need to start your successful leadership journey through the 101 series compiled into one collection by John C. Maxwell.As the founder of EQUIP and the John Maxwell Company, bestselling author, speaker, and leadership expert John C. Maxwell is responsible for helping train more than 5 million leaders worldwide.In The Complete... Read more

Chess Not Checkers

By: Mark Miller

Narrated by: Joe Bronzi

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

As organizations grow in volume and complexity, the demands on leadership change. The same old moves won't cut it any more. In Chess Not Checkers, Mark Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous roles seems to help him deal with the... Read more

Chess Not Checkers

By: Mark Miller

Narrated by: Joe Bronzi

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The ever-increasing complexity we face requires a new way to think and work. To effectively lead an organization, bestselling author Mark Miller says, you have to play chess, not checkers. He shows how this mentality enables you to marshal all your available resources, including every employee, to strategically address challenges and... Read more

Dare to Serve

By: Cheryl A. Bachelder

Narrated by: Cheryl A. Bachelder

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Cheryl Bachelder joined an ailing restaurant chain and turned it into the darling of the industry—by daring to serve the people in her organization well.

When Bachelder was named CEO of Popeyes in the fall of 2007, guest visits had been declining for years, restaurant sales and profit trends were negative, and the company stock price had dropped... Read more

Under the Hood

By: Stan Slap

Narrated by: Stan Slap

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You can't sell it outside if you can't sell it inside

You want maximum business performance? Look under the hood and you’ll find your employee culture: it is the power that drives the enterprise engine. To harness that rumbling power you’ve got to solve the mystery of what an employee culture actually is, how it operates and how to move it... Read more

Spiraling Upward

By: Wendy Wallbridge

Narrated by: Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Women comprise 51 percent of the world’s population, make up over half of the workforce, and control 85 percent of consumer decisions. It’s estimated that two-thirds of the nation’s wealth will be in women’s hands by 2030. Never before have women been so degreed or so represented as decision-makers in all areas of influence. Why, then, are women... Read more

Business Strategy

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Setting business strategy enables you to develop absolute clarity on priorities, organize resources, and get better results than ever before. It may sound complicated, but Brian Tracy knows how to make it simple. In this practical book he shares the most important lessons for strategic planning. You’ll discover how to:

Ask the five key questions... Read more

Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management

By: John Hampton

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One thing that will never change about the business world is the presence of risk. But risk management has changed dramatically since the 2008 financial crisis. . .and new developments in technology and communications demand up-to-the-minute approaches for defending against threats—and seizing opportunities.

Extensively updated, the second... Read more

The Engaged Leader

By: Charlene Li

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NYT and WSJ bestselling author Charlene Li guides business leaders deeper than ever before into the uncomfortable and ever-changing terrain of the digital era Technology has revolutionized the very idea and nature of relationships between leaders and their followers. Yet, many leaders remain stuck at arms-length from those they lead and serve,... Read more

What's Your Future Worth?

By: Peter Neuwirth

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

We weigh every significant decision based on how it will affect our future. But when it comes to figuring that out, we mostly make the process up as we go along. While financial professional Peter Neuwirth can't help you actually predict the future, he can offer a simple, systematic way to make much better guesses about it—and so make better... Read more

The One-Page Financial Plan

By: Carl Richards

Narrated by: Carl Richards

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Whenever I tell people about my job as a financial advisor, the conversation inevitably turns to how hopeless they feel when it comes to dealing with money. More than once, they’ve begged, “Just tell me what to do.”
It’s no surprise that even my most successful friends feel confused or paralyzed. Even if they have a shelfful of personal finance... Read more

Project Management for Small Projects

By: Sandra F. Rowe, PhD

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Important New Tools for Managing Your Small Projects As Part of a Larger Program!



The first edition of Project Management for Small Projects introduced project management processes, tools, and techniques that are scalable and adaptable to small projects. Project managers learned a structured, disciplined approach to managing small projects... Read more

The High-Speed Company

By: Laurence Haughton & Jason Jennings

Narrated by: Jason Jennings

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

How great companies succeed by building speed into everything they do

Bestselling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Leaders need to adapt and ignite their workplace culture to prevent everyone from falling behind.

Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with... Read more

Quantum Leaps

By: Gloria Mayfield Banks

Narrated by: Gloria Mayfield Banks

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the world's top salespeople for the Mary Kay Corporation, Gloria Mayfield Banks passionately inspires other independent consultants not just about sales, but also about leadership and how to achieve a balanced life that works for them. But life for Gloria didn't start out with success. Quantum Leaps shares how she overcame both... Read more

How to Take Your Business Global

By: Dolf de Roos

Narrated by: Dolf de Roos

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

You’ve probably heard the often quoted statistic about entrepreneurial businesses: “95% of all new businesses will fail in their first five years.” However, what you probably don’t know is that, of those businesses that last past five years, the vast majority of those will fail in the next five years after that! Why is this? Pure and... Read more

How To Think Like a Wealthy Person

By: Dolf de Roos

Narrated by: Dolf de Roos

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolf De Roos, the best-selling author of Real Estate Riches and The Wealth Magnet, made an amazing discovery: when he began teaching his real estate students the foundational beliefs that all rich people share, his students success rate in real estate went from 5% to over 80%! Now, in this all-new program How To Think Like a Wealthy Person,... Read more

Entrepreneurship for the Rest Us

By: Paul B. Brown

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt—and succeed.

The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry.

What works for the most successful... Read more

The Confidence Myth

By: Helene Lerner

Narrated by: Marsha Mercant

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Not only do we need more female leaders at the top, but we need more women at all levels of business, government, and nonprofits to step up—there's no time to waste. The problem, says Helene Lerner, isn't so much that women lack confidence but that they misunderstand what confidence really is.

True confidence isn't fearlessness; it's having the... Read more

The Wolf in CIO's Clothing

By: Tina Nunno

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Machiavellians are few in number in IT. The massive pressure on CIOs continues to increase as the opportunities to use technology in business become more prevalent and more competitive. As CIOs often find themselves at the center of business conflict, they must not only familiarize themselves with Machiavellian tactics as a defensive weapon, but... Read more

The Lean CEO

By: Jacob Stoller

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As organizations strive to do more with less, many are turning to Lean methodology, which is based on the same techniques that propelled the legendary turnaround of Japan's industrial sector after World War II. Few leaders, however, understand that the real secret behind Lean is a comprehensive approach to management that differs significantly... Read more

Do the KIND Thing

By: Daniel Lubetzky

Narrated by: Daniel Lubetzky

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For the socially conscious, the intellectually curious, or the creative soul comes an inspiring, New York Times bestselling handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate world—by the visionary founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.
 
When Daniel Lubetzky started KIND Healthy Snacks in 2004,... Read more

Learn or Die

By: Edward D. Hess

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn--the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation--to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology,... Read more