Business audiobooks

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

Wisdom for a Global Tribe

By: Alan Briskin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In an uprising of collective wisdom in 2008, the American electorate upended the political paradigm to elect a President who stood for hope, change, and the ideals of a progressive agenda. Is there a way to identify the principles that allowed that process to unfold, and apply them to further the social change inherent in those ideals? Alan... Read more

Managing for the Future

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This wide-ranging, future-oriented book is sure to number among the most important and influential business books of the decade.Drucker writes with penetrating insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations. Wide-ranging,... Read more

Light Side of a "Dismal Science"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Economics isn't exactly a side-splitting discipline, but at a recent economics convention in Atlanta, self-proclaimed "stand-up economist" Yoram Bauman showed it's possible to infuse the sober science with monetary mirth. Read more

Über Vertrauen

By: Stephen R. Covey, Stephen M. Covey, Gordon Pied...

Narrated by: Gabi Franke, Heiko Grauel & Gordon Piedesack

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In der heutigen, so stark verzahnten Wirtschaft ist Vertrauen eine unerlässliche Schlüsselkompetenz, die wirtschaftliche Vorteile bringt. Trotzdem wird dies in unserer Gesellschaft meist unterschätzt. Die Bedeutung von Vertrauen für das Knüpfen und Bewahren von Beziehungen im privaten und beruflichen Kontext wird besonders lebendig in diesem... Read more

30 Minuten Interkulturelle Kompetenz

By: Susanne Doser

Narrated by: Gisa Bergmann & Gordon Piedesack

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Pünktlichkeit ist die Tugend der Könige!" Was für den deutschsprachigen Raum gilt, mag in Finnland durch eine Tasse Kaffee vorab aufgelockert werden. 15 Minuten Smalltalk ist in Frankreich üblich, in Japan gibt immer der Senior das Zeichen zum Start. In jeder Kultur haben Menschen ihre eigene Art und Weise gefunden, sich auszudrücken. Wie Sie... Read more

The Quants

By: Scott Patterson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel... Read more

Mojo

By: Marshall Goldsmith

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment--and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it. In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive... Read more

How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement

By: Stephen R Covey

Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In diesem Hörbuch geht es um die Erkenntnis des zweiten Weges aus Stephen R. Coveys Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität: Kurzfristig mag man mit oberflächlichen Persönlichkeitsstrategien Erfolge erzielen, doch auf lange Sicht bringt nur ein auf Prinzipien gründender Charakter nachhaltigen Erfolg und Zufriedenheit. Der Hörer erfährt, wie man ein... Read more

30 Minuten Die wirkungsvolle Stimme

By: Anno Lauten

Narrated by: Gisa Bergmann, Gordon Piedesack & Dirk Pettenkofer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ob im Vorstellungsgespräch, in der Konferenz oder im Meeting - oft werden wir akustisch nicht hinreichend wahrgenommen oder unsere Stimme lässt uns ganz einfach im Stich. Tatsächlich ist die Stimme ein komplexes System, das es zu kennen und zu pflegen gilt. Hier werden in Kürze die Zusammenhänge von Haltung, Atem und Stimme vermittelt und... Read more

30 Minuten Storytelling

By: Cristián Gálvez

Narrated by: Gisa Bergmann, Gordon Piedesack & Dirk Pettenkofer

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Story liefert Bilder, erzeugt Emotionen, baut Brücken. Wer gute Geschichten und Geschichten gut erzählen kann, gewinnt das Vertrauen seiner Zuhörer. Mit dem Inhalt können auch persönliche Überzeugungen vermittelt oder Konflikte humorvoll transportiert und gelöst werden. Dieser Ratgeber beleuchtet nicht nur die Funktion des Storytellings,... Read more

Mojo

By: Marshall Goldsmith

Narrated by: Marshall Goldsmith

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment -- and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it. In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive... Read more

The Quants - Abridged

By: Scott Patterson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel... Read more

Money for Nothing

By: John Gillespie & David Zweig

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Of the world's two hundred largest economies, more than half are corporations. They have more influence on our lives than any other institution, but while boards of directors are supposed to police CEOs and provide independent leadership, they have become enabling lapdogs rather than trustworthy watchdogs. As America contends with the worst... Read more

On the Brink

By: Henry M. Paulson

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging.

But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world's most cataclysmic financial... Read more

Agile is NOT Just for Software

By: William Krebs

Narrated by: William Krebs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The software development community has used Agile, Scrum, XP, and Lean for software development projects for many years now. But if these practices are good for software, why aren’t they great for other projects? And if so, which agile practices might apply? Which may need modification? And which just don’t make sense when we are not deep... Read more

Introduction to User Stories

By: William Krebs

Narrated by: William Krebs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Agile teams use Use Case and User Stories to define requirements, but what other… Wait a minute... What’s a User Story?
Not everyone has heard of them but even those who have may benefit from complimentary tools that highlight patterns in the roles of stakeholders, putting a face on the users with personas.
This 60 minute MP3 recording of a live... Read more

In Cheap We Trust

By: Lauren Weber

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Cheap.

Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult,... Read more

Training Camp

By: Jon Gordon

Narrated by: Jon Gordon

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of his international bestseller The Energy Bus, Jon Gordon returns with another inspirational fable filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team.

Training Camp follows the story of Martin Jones, an undrafted rookie trying to make it in the NFL. He's spent his entire life proving to... Read more

Freefall

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The current global financial crisis carries a "made in America" label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up.... Read more

Linchpin

By: Seth Godin

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers.  They love... Read more

Linchpin - Abridged

By: Seth Godin

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers.  They love... Read more

The Most Successful Small Business in the World

By: Michael E. Gerber

Narrated by: Michael E. Gerber

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Before you launch your start-up, begin with Gerber.All too often, entrepreneurs begin a small business to create a sense of security. They become sole proprietors or perhaps employ only one or two people. The business becomes a perpetual existence, like a mechanic, a doctor, a therapist, or a retailer who does the same thing over and over again... Read more

Drive

By: Daniel H. Pink

Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human:... Read more