Business audiobooks

The High-Velocity Edge

By: Steven J. Spear

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Generate Better, Faster Results-Using Less Capital and Fewer Resources!

“[The High-Velocity Edge] contains ideas that form the basis for structured continuous learning and improvement in every aspect of our lives. While this book is tailored to business leaders, it should be read by high school seniors, college students, and those already in the... Read more

Interview

By: Heather Salter

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The interview secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Interviews.Includes how to:• Research the needs of the employer• Focus the interview on your strengths• Use body language to impress• Deal with difficult questions• Negotiate the perfect package ... Read more

Career Management

By: Carolyn Boyes

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The career management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Career Management.Includes how to:• Assess your career goals• Create and follow an exciting career plan• Make yourself visible for your ideal job• Deliver the perfect interview• Get... Read more

Finance Basics

By: Stuart Warner

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The finance basics that experts and top professionals understand. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Finance.Includes how to:• Analyse a business from its financial reports• Understand a Profit and Loss account• Make sense of accounting jargon• Build a financially sound business plan• Deal... Read more

Presenting

By: Martin Manser

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The presenting secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Presenting.Includes how to:• Enjoy presenting and approach it with confidence• Assess your audience and their reactions• Prepare presentations for maximum impact• Use your voice and body to make... Read more

Project Management

By: Matthew Batchelor

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The project management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Project Management.Includes how to:• Deliver a successful project from start to finish• Communicate effectively with people at all levels• Manage changes and control scope creep• Identify... Read more

Marketing

By: Peter Spalton

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The marketing secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of MarketingIncludes how to:• Position your product for a target market• Build a brilliant marketing plan• Create stunning branded marketing materials• Use memorable publicity to build market... Read more

The Great Reset

By: Richard Florida

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008–09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to “reset.” In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like—of how we will work and... Read more

Agile 3-D

By: Bill Krebs

Narrated by: Bill Krebs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Are your teams spread across the globe? Do people work from home? Sun Microsystems reports that 11% of their workforce works from home, and only half are in the office at any given time. But what if your travel budgets have evaporated? Don't worry... Web 3.0 is here.
Using immersive internet technologies and virtual worlds, teams can:
Collaborate... Read more

Adapting Agile for Use with Distributed Teams

By: Scott Ambler & Kevin Aguanno

Narrated by: Scott Ambler & Kevin Aguanno

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Let's face it, the co-located teams mentioned in all of the agile methods just don't happen on many of our real-world projects. Sometimes, we just have no choice -- we have to work with team members in different cities, different time zones, or even on the other side of the world. How do agile methods fare under these circumstances?In this... Read more

An Introduction to the History of Project Management

By: Mark Kozak-Holland

Narrated by: Mark Kozak-Holland

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Pyramid of Giza, the Colosseum, and the Transcontinental Railroad are all great historical projects from the past four millennia. When we look back we tend to look at these as great architectural or engineering works. Project management tends to be overlooked, and yet the core principles were used extensively in these projects.This... Read more

Bounce

By: Matthew Syed

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in... Read more

Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way

By: Ron Karr

Narrated by: Ron Karr

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's sales world there's no room for followers. But there's plenty of room for leaders. Competition is intense, and if you don't take a leadership role in producing results for your clients, someone else will. In Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way, Ron Karr outlines a repeatable process based on the powerful idea that great sellers lead... Read more

The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing

By: Ben Stein & Phil DeMuth

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been a tough couple of years for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth has created The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing.
When you invest,... Read more

The Art of Closing the Sale

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the top salespeople in the world, Brian Tracy knows the ability to close the sale is the key skill required by all top sales professionals. Fortunately, closing the sale is a skill that can be learned by practicing the closing skills of the highest paid salespeople in every business. When salespeople follow a practical, proven,... Read more

A Captain's Duty

By: Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." —President Barack Obama

It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a United States–flagged cargo ship that was carrying, among... Read more

The M-Factor

By: Lynne C. Lancaster & David Stillman

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

As the Millennial generation (those born between 1982 and 2000) rapidly enters the workforce, their introduction into the workplace has been anything but seamless. In fact, you might have already heard one of these jaw-dropping stories: the mother who called HR to complain when her daughter got a mediocre performance review. The recent college... Read more

Get Rid of the Performance Review!

By: Samuel A. Culbert

Narrated by: Samuel A. Culbert

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The performance review. It is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. We all hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it.

Until now...

Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management guru and UCLA professor, minces no words as he puts managers on notice that -- with the performance review as... Read more

Florida's Foreclosure Crisis

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Solman reports from Florida on people who have lost their homes to foreclosures and the buyers who are snapping up those properties. Read more

The End of Wall Street

By: Roger Lowenstein

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government... Read more

Different

By: Youngme Moon

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Why trying to be the best … competing like crazy … makes you mediocre

Every few years a book—through a combination of the author’s unique voice, storytelling ability, wit, and insight—simply breaks the mold. Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods is one example. Richard Feynman’s “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” is another.
 
Now comes Youngme Moon’s... Read more

Time Management

By: Martin Manser

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The time management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Time Management.Includes how to:• Identify your biggest priorities and find time to achieve them• Deal with the biggest hidden time-wasters• Communicate effectively with colleagues and... Read more

Debt-Free Living

By: Larry Burkett

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

It dominates our society... and our households: debt.  Money, for richer or for poorer, affects each of our lives and indeed, our society. Men, women, singles, couples—anyone can get caught by the trap of debt, and many do, and sometimes it seems impossible to ever pull away. But it’s not. In this helpful volume, you’ll read about people who... Read more

How to Hit a Curveball

By: Mark Levine & Scott R. Singer

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"None of us knows what the future holds. But once you've learned how to confront and overcome the unexpected, this lack of knowledge will cease to make you anxious. Tomorrow will no longer be something to fear. And believe me, that's a great feeling"

As a professional, you want to be ready for anything. You'll spend hours, days, even years,... Read more