Business audiobooks

The Connectors

By: Maribeth Kuzmeski

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes the world's most successful individuals so good at their jobs? What do they do that others don't?
The Connectors answers those questions with the kind of straightforward wisdom that business strategists so often overlook. Forget marketing tactics or business school best practices. Those are handy, but it's really people—and the... Read more

It's Not as Bad as You Think

By: Brian S. Wesbury

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Even with the economy feeling a little bit better, there is a real fear that markets will stay down and things won't ever get back to normal. But a few brave voices say that this attitude is just too pessimistic.
Capitalism has not failed. And it's not time to just give up—on free markets or a better tomorrow. History shows that every time the... Read more

America--An Insider's View

By: Gerld Rosen, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Rosen has seen America from most every vantage point. He grew up in a house without books, obtained an ivy league Ph.D. in literature, and went on to run a liquor store on the edge of Harlem. He's crossed paths, in one way or another, with Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin…even Babe Ruth. So his observations about American culture... Read more

20 Minutes to a Top Performer

By: Alan Vengel

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform Average Employees into Powerhouse Performers

“I cannot think of a more important message and timely book. 20 Minutes to a Top Performer offers quick, simple techniques for managers to improve their effectiveness in communicating with their teams.”

Steven Fine, vice president for administration, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach,... Read more

Googled

By: Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Googled, esteemed media writer and critic Ken Auletta uses the story of Google’s rise to explore the inner workings of the company and the future of the media at large. Although Google has often been secretive, this book is based on the most extensive cooperation ever granted a journalist, including access to closed-door meetings and... Read more

The Greatest Trade Ever

By: Gregory Zuckerman

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall.  Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing.  He had spent a... Read more

The Courageous Follower, 3rd Edition

By: Ira Chaleff

Narrated by: R. K. Meier

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ira Chaleff's bestseller (over 40,000 copies sold across two editions) becomes even more relevant today as failures in leadership grow astronomically requiring greater vigilance and oversight on the part of the citizenry. Read more

60 Seconds and You’re Hired!

By: Robin Ryan

Narrated by: Robin Ryan

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Now fully revised and updated, this is the must-have guide to acing the interview and landing the dream job.Whether you are moving up, moving on, or just starting out, America’s top career coach, Robin Ryan, offers proven, easy-to-learn techniques for mastering the job interview and landing the job of your dreams. This brief, compact book, newly... Read more

The Compromise Trap

By: Elizabeth Doty

Narrated by: Donna Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Countless people face "integrity stress" in their daily work - where they feel pressure to compromise their values, life commitments and integrity with no choice but to make a "devil's bargain" at times. This book offers powerful understanding of what is really going on in these compromises, how people can escape the traps and hooks of... Read more

The Time of Their Lives

By: Al Silverman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of... Read more

Getting to Resolution, 2nd Edition

By: Stewart Levine

Narrated by: Doug Hannah

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Most approaches to conflict resolution and negotiation result in just temporary settlement, compromise, or capitulation. This book offers new principles and new tools to show how to get to real, lasting resolution of any kind of personal, business, organizational, or community conflict Read more

Leading the Charge

By: Tony Zinni & Tony Koltz

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The times are changing at an ever-increasing velocity. Old systems, organizations, and ways of operating no longer work in our dynamic, complex and increasingly unstable new environment. Out of this chaos and confusion, a new and different leader must emerge. Old systems and methods will no longer work.



Leading the Charge is a visionary... Read more

Viral Loop

By: Adam L. Penenberg

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and rising stars like Twitter and Flickr, are prime examples of what journalist Adam L. Penenberg calls a "viral loop"—to use the product means having to share it with others. After all, what's the sense of being on Facebook if none of your friends are? The end... Read more

Final Voyage

By: Peter Nichols

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.

New Bedford, Massachusetts, was fertile ground for this country's first multimillion-dollar industry. Founded by assiduous Quaker merchants... Read more

Saved By Her Soul

By: Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it possible to be downsized, get a pink slip, hunt for a job, go through rejection, and keep your spirit intact? This is the question Carol Orsborn faced when she, like so many others, was forced to reassess her values, her courage, and her faith during one of life's difficult times. Read more

This Time is Different

By: Kenneth S. Rogoff & Carmen Reinhart

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past... Read more

What the Dog Saw

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one... Read more

The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching

By: Jeffrey Gitomer

Narrated by: Jeffrey Gitomer

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

You may know Cha-Ching! as the sound of a cash register ringing-but Jeffrey Gitomer hears it in every aspect of business, as the sound of achievement, fulfillment, money, wealth, and so much more!

Cha-Ching is the sound of music.
Music that makes you feel great every time you hear it. Cha-Ching! sets the tone for more Cha-Chings! and gives you... Read more

Inside Larry's and Sergey's Brain

By: Richard L. Brandt

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An in-depth look at the strategies of Google's shockingly successful founders

You've used their products. You've heard about their skyrocketing wealth and "don't be evil" business motto. But how much do you really know about Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain skips past the general Google story and... Read more

Wired For Thought

By: Jeffrey Stibel

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected... Read more

SuperFreakonomics

By: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based on revolutionary research and original studies... Read more

Our Noise

By: John Cook

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For twenty years, Merge Records has remained true to their belief that you can sign bands because you love their music and respect what they’re trying to do. As giant corporate labels struggle for survival, Merge has, in the unlikeliest of times, garnered a loyal group of artists and a secure and growing fan base and, most important, has brought... Read more

Toward A More Conscious Economy

By: David Korten, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a voice of reason that brings not only sanity but consciousness to a real understanding of how our economy works-and why it often doesn't-and how we can apply principles of spirituality and conscious living to the choices we must make for our own financial survival. David Korten understands the economy, and he also knows that money is... Read more

Love Leadership

By: John Hope Bryant

Narrated by: John Hope Bryant

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1992, at the age of 26, John Hope Bryant was running a successful financial services firm when the Los Angeles riots broke out. After the violence and chaos subsided, Bryant saw that his community needed a "hand up, not a handout," so he founded Operation HOPE, an organization dedicated to helping low-wealth communities attain financial... Read more