Business audiobooks

Living Rich for Less - Abridged

By: Ellie Kay

Narrated by: Ellie Kay

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

You really can be rich in every way, every day.

So you want to own the home you love, make memories on wonderful vacations with family or friends, finance college educations, and help others too?

You can–starting here and now.

With lively humor, proven know-how, and practical principles for financial health, Living Rich for Less helps you stretch... Read more

The McKinsey Engagement

By: Paul N. Friga

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world’s most respected consulting firms. Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling... Read more

The Energy Bus

By: Jon Gordon

Narrated by: Jon Gordon

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. This is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big product launch coming in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work,... Read more

Big Boy Rules

By: Steve Fainaru

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A parallel army lives on the margins of the Iraq war—nearly 100,000 armed men, invisible yet in plain sight, doing jobs the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't do. The U.S. media call them "security contractors." They call themselves "mercs," and they operate under their own rules.



Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru... Read more

The Small Business Owner’s Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep

By: Debra Koontz Traverso

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you respond to embezzlement? How about allegations of sexual harassment? Or a serious accident involving a company vehicle?Debra Traverso tells you how to prepare for the surprises most likely to throw small businesses off course. She helps you to anticipate both predictable hurdles and devastating ordeals, so that no crisis will catch... Read more

Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements

By: Mary Buffett & David Clark

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Buffett and David Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham (The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with... Read more

Why Businessmen Need Philosophy and Other Essays

By: Ayn Rand, various authors, Leonard Peikoff, Har...

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth," wrote Ayn Rand.In the title essay of this collection, Leonard Peikoff applies this principle to the world of business. He shows that certain philosophic ideas, such as reason, egoism, and individualism, are needed to defend and protect the freedom of businessmen, while the... Read more

Enough

By: John C. Bogle

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails.

The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but publicly owned) mortgage lenders, to say... Read more

The Law of Success

By: Napoleon Hill

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 24 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Napoleon Hill, born into poverty in 1883, began writing as a reporter for small town newspapers while just a teenager. When industrialist Andrew Carnegie commissioned him in 1908 to interview over 500 hundred successful men and women to help prove his theory that success could be distilled down to a clear-cut formula, Hill met with hundreds of... Read more

The Man Who Owns the News

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... Read more

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

By: Paul Krugman

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that... Read more

The Man Who Owns the News - Abridged

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Michael Wolff

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... Read more

Introduction to Agile Modeling

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

During requirements gathering and solution design, one of the most common techniques used to create a shared vision is modeling. Over the years, many tools and techniques have emerged for modeling in different fields that take in to account the various complexities of the solutions involved; however, one drawback that most share in common is the... Read more

Save Time and Money with Agile Documentation

By: Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tired of wasting time creating documents that no one will ever read? Spending hours fussing with documents to make them “perfect” only to find out that they didn’t include the right content? Spinning your wheels updating documents to keep them current?Modern agile management practices propose techniques to operate our businesses more... Read more

The Time Seller

By: Fernando Trias de Bes

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed, best-selling business author Fernando TrIas de Bes pens a strikingly original fable that explores the nature of work and time-and a system that demands too much of each. In The Time Seller, AG and his family live in a smallish apartment with a not-so-smallish debt to the bank. But AG dreams of a different life and... Read more

Spanning Silos

By: David Aaker

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do so many chief marketing officers of multinationals last only two or three years on the job? Because product and country marketing teams – or “silos” – make their professional mandate impossible. Without synergy across silos, global CMOs cannot achieve their goals. In this eminently practical audiobook, branding guru David A. Aaker tells... Read more

Six Sigma For Dummies - Abridged

By: Bruce Williams & Neil DeCarlo

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The only user-friendly beginner’s guide to Six SigmaSix Sigma is the most common—and perhaps least understood—methodology for streamlining processes in manufacturing, service delivery, management, and almost any other business activity. For business leaders seeking increased efficiency and customer service, Six Sigma is the key.Written... Read more

Changing the Channel

By: Tribby Masterson & MaryEllen Michael

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

To attain and sustain success in today’s dynamic business environment, it’s no longer enough to be good at just one type of marketing. Expanding into additional channels—especially the Internet—will help you attract prospective customers and increase your revenue. In fact, if you’re only using one channel, you’re likely leaving millions of... Read more

The Five Most Important Questions

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With Peter Drucker’s five essential questions and the help of five of today’s thought leaders, this little book will challenge readers to take a close look at the very heart of their organizations and what drives them. A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work,... Read more

Outliers

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, learn what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous... Read more

32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business

By: Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Earvin “Magic” Johnson admired his father and other small-town entrepreneurs who created jobs and served as leaders in his Midwestern community. He worked for them, watched them, and his interest in building communities through economic development grew even while his basketball career flourished. His fame as an NBA star gave him... Read more

Management Rev Ed - Abridged

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The essential book on management from the man who invented the disciplineNow completely revised and updated for the first time Read more

globalization

By: Bruce C. Greenwald & Judd Kahn

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Most supporters and opponents of globalization accept as true certain key ideas that govern the terms of the debate. Globalization, they contend, is the single dominant force shaping the world’s economies both today and into the future; an irresistible and growing part of economic reality. They see the fates of business, labor, and entire... Read more

The Smart Cookies' Guide to Making More Dough

By: Jennifer Barrett & Smart Cookies

Narrated by: Andrea Baxter

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

They were five dynamic young women: smart, successful—and secretly drowning in debt. Inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on personal finance, Andrea, Angela, Katie, Robyn, and Sandra formed a money club, together developing strategies for turning their finances around. Just one year later, they had dramatically improved their... Read more