Business audiobooks

Veteran Court

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A new and special court system set up in over 20 jurisdictions around the country now gives veterans a chance at treatment and not simply punishment for their crimes. Like drug courts that began in the 1980s, they’re based on the idea of treating defendants for underlying problems in order to prevent future criminal activity. Veterans in this... Read more

Great Work Great Career

By: Stephen R. Covey & Jennifer Colosimo

Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer Colosimo share their secrets to getting and keeping the job you want.


Do you have a good career, a mediocre career, or a great career? How do you know? And just how do you create a great career? Whether you’re looking for a job or want to make the job you already have more meaningful, this audio is for you. Read more

Sidetracked Home Executives(TM)

By: Pam Young & Peggy Jones

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Anna Stone

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Get on top of your chores and keep your home looking sparkling clean with the help of this valuable handbook.

In Sidetracked Home Executives(TM) sisters Pam and Peggy share their secrets to turning a messy house into a spic and span palace.

Using a rotating card system, Pam and Peggy will show you how you too can stay organized by: Taking the... Read more

Circle of Greed

By: Patrick Dillon

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon.  For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron.  Now, the man who brought corporate moguls... Read more

Payback Time

By: Phil Town

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t get mad, get even…
 
Phil Town’s first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Rule #1, was a guide to stock trading for people who believe they lack the knowledge to trade.  But because many people aren’t ready to go from mutual funds directly into trading without understanding investing—for the long term – he created Payback Time.
 
Too... Read more

Payback Time - Abridged

By: Phil Town

Narrated by: Phil Town

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t get mad, get even…
 
Phil Town’s first book, the #1 New York Times bestseller Rule #1, was a guide to stock trading for people who believe they lack the knowledge to trade.  But because many people aren’t ready to go from mutual funds directly into trading without understanding investing—for the long term – he created Payback Time.
 
Too... Read more

The Art of Choosing

By: Sheena Iyengar

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?

Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control... Read more

Winston Churchill CEO

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

By: Allan S. Roth

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Investing is simple, but never easy. We carry a lot of investment baggage, including hot tips from friends and the financial media, as well as complicated financial recommendations from Wall Street "experts." Yet the biggest obstacle we face is the tendency to outsmart ourselves.
In order to overcome this obstacle, you need to follow... Read more

Social Media 101

By: Chris Brogan

Narrated by: Chris Brogan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Trust Agents…100 ways to tap into social media for a more profitable business
Your competitors are using social media platforms like blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to reach their customers in order to grow their businesses and profits—are you?
With Social Media 101, you can quickly bring your business up to speed on... Read more

The Digital Handshake

By: Paul Chaney

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Traditional marketing tactics aren't bringing in customers like they used to, and even today's most successful businesses are suffering shrinking returns on their advertising and marketing investment. The Digital Handshake explains this phenomenon and reveals seven effective, proven strategies for using new media and online tools to find new... Read more

Getting Naked

By: Patrick Lencioni

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After focusing on topics ranging from teamwork and leadership to employee engagement and meetings  New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni has finally turned his attention toward his own craft—consulting and client service. Tapping into the simple but powerful model that his firm, The Table Group, has been built on, Lencioni presents... Read more

SCOTUS - Patriot Act

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Patriot Act came under the microscope at the US Supreme Court today, as justices took up a case that pits free speech against national security concerns. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal provides our analysis tonight. Read more

Optimize Your Software Processes with Lean

By: William Krebs

Narrated by: William Krebs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Got Waste? Optimization is easy to suggest, but what tools do we use to optimize our processes? Why have some companies survived, while others have required government assistance to exist?This recording presents some high-performance secrets from Toyota and companies that use lean techniques: queuing theory, value stream maps, root cause... Read more

Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door

By: Harvey Mackay

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvey Mackay has written five New York Times bestsellers, including one of the most popular business books of all time—Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive. Now he returns with the ultimate audio book on how to get, and keep, a job you truly love whether you’re twenty-one, fifty-one, or seventy-one.

The average person will have at... Read more

Switch

By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! The ultimate guide to making changes and following through, from the authors of Made to Stick and Decisive—hailed as “witty and instructive” (The Wall Street Journal), “packed with examples and hands-on tools that will get you moving right away” (BusinessWeek)

Why is it so hard to make... Read more

The Bag Lady Papers

By: Alexandra Penney

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a multimillion-dollar bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to... Read more

Know What Makes Them Tick

By: Max Siegel & G.F. Lichtenberg

Narrated by: Clifton Duncan

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Siegel shows us how to successfully navigate situations that may arise at work, in the home, or in personal relationships. More, he shows how, if the cards are played right, everyone walks away a winner—an empowering feeling if ever there was one.” — Chris Gardner, author of The Pursuit of Happyness and Start Where You Are “Winners attract... Read more

Go-Givers Sell More

By: Bob Burg & John Mann

Narrated by: John Mann & Bob Burg

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Applying the lessons of the bestselling parable The Go-Giver to real-world situations

The Go-Giver took the business world by storm with its message that giving is the most fulfilling and most effective path to success. It has inspired more than 125,000 readers—but some have wondered how the story's lessons stand up to the tough challenges of... Read more

The Right Fight

By: Damon Beyer & Saj-nicole Joni

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age when corporate executives are focused on smoothing out differences and achieving consensus, Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer contend that happy workers aren't always productive; they often become prone to boredom and complacency. While organizational harmony and strategic alignment are important, the health and well-being of... Read more

Goldman Sachs Part II

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Solman explores how investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs uses taxpayer money to make more profits. Read more

Goldman Sachs Part I

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of his series of reports making sense of business and the economy, Paul Solman examines the inner workings of investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs and how it makes money. Read more

The Myth of the Rational Market

By: Justin Fox

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do—because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”
—Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review “Fox makes business history thrilling.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch A lively history of ideas, The Myth of the Rational Market by former... Read more

Identity Economics

By: George Akerlof & Rachel Kranton

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize–winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people—facing the same economic circumstances—would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year... Read more