Business audiobooks

Start-Up Nation

By: Saul Singer & Dan Senor

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the... Read more

Never Make the First Offer

By: Donald Dell & John Boswell

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Dell is a legend in professional sports. As one of the first agents to represent athletes, he's been negotiating mega-deals for almost forty years with a hugely successful record on behalf of stars like Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Connors, Patrick Ewing, Stan Smith, and Boomer Esiason.

Now Dell shares behind-the-scenes stories of... Read more

Zero Gravity

By: Steve Harmon

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Internet is a wild ride. High-flying Internet companies seem to operate on their own set of rules—outside the natural laws of gravity that apply to most businesses. It's an environment in which perception is more important than profits, and "mind share" is greater than market share. This is Zero Gravity, and it's what all Internet start-ups... Read more

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

By: Wess Roberts

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling classic on leadership is now updated in a revised 20th anniversary edition, available for the first time from Hachette Audio! Discover the leadership secrets of the warrior who centuries ago shaped an aimless band of mercenary tribal nomads into the undisputed rulers of the ancient world-and who today offers timeless lessons in... Read more

Grow from Within

By: Robert Wolcott & Michael J. Lippitz

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Create Business and Generate Profits in New Markets through Innovation!

“The best account I have read about how companies can enable and support internal entrepreneurs to achieve innovation-led growth.”

Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management

“An essential resource for both private... Read more

Self-Promotion for Introverts

By: Nancy Ancowitz

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Get noticed . . . and get ahead!

All too often, introverts get passed over for job offers and promotions while their more extroverted colleagues get all of the recognition. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

In Self-Promotion for Introverts®, business communication coach and intrepid introvert Nancy Ancowitz helps introverts tap into their quiet... Read more

Basic Economics

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Sowell has a different idea about how economics should be taught. With this groundbreaking introduction to economics, Sowell has thrown out the graphs, statistics, and jargon. Learning economics, he believes, should be relaxing—and even enjoyable.Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy—capitalist, socialist,... Read more

Women, Work, and the Art of Savoir Faire

By: Mireille Guiliano

Narrated by: Mireille Guiliano

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat comes every woman's guide to navigating the world of work, living the good life, and savoring every minute of it.When Mireille Guiliano became a senior executive and spokesperson for Veuve Clicquot, she took the champagne to the top of the luxury market, using her... Read more

Trump Card - Abridged

By: Ivanka Trump

Narrated by: Samantha Mathis

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the daughter of business mogul Donald Trump and a rising star in the Trump organization, this New York Times bestseller is a business book for young women on how to achieve success in any field, based upon what Ivanka Trump has learned from her father and from her own experiences.

Inspiration. Success. Confidence. Passion. No one is born... Read more

Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even - Abridged

By: James J. Cramer

Narrated by: James J. Cramer

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money and bestselling author and financial guru, offers specific advice about how to overcome your fear of the markets and put your investments back on track to recover from the financial debacle of 2008-2009.

You don't even look at your 401(k) statements any longer. When mail comes from your broker or your mutual... Read more

The Next Evolution of Marketing

By: Bob Gilbreath

Narrated by: Bruce Reizen

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The old interruptive model of marketing doesn’t work. Customers are tuning out. They no longer listen to in-your-face messages. Marketing strategist Bob Gilbreath’s hot new concept, Marketing with Meaning, represents the next evolutionary step in a progression following direct marketing and permission marketing. Rather than pushing a product or... Read more

The Most They Ever Had

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Now they stood looking down, bitter, angry, afraid. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still... Read more

The Upside of Turbulence

By: Donald Sull

Narrated by: Loren Lester

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Traditionally, leadership has been equated with vision. We look to leaders in business and government to have the genius to know the future and lead the rest of us to where that vision becomes a reality. We look for goals to beckon us and rely on strategic plans to guide us, all the while knowing how unreliable and unpredictable the future might... Read more

Working for You Isn't Working for Me

By: Kathi Elster & Katherine Crowley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking guide to dealing with difficult bosses by two bestselling experts

In their bestseller Working with You Is Killing Me, Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster taught readers how to free themselves from emotional traps created by difficult colleagues. Now they apply their research and insights to the challenges of "toxic bosses." Sooner... Read more

Three Feet From Gold

By: Sharon L. Lechter & Greg S. Reid

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable business allegory tells a fascinating story in presenting the key principles of Napoleon Hill’s revolutionary bestseller Think and Grow Rich. While you follow a struggling young entrepreneur through a life-changing series of encounters with some of today’s foremost business leaders and inspirational figures, you’ll find... Read more

Your Next Move

By: Michael D. Watkins

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

After three months in a new job, are you up to speed? Will you sink . . . or swim? Transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today.

Yet far too often, leaders fail to transition effectively into new roles. The resulting costs are high, for your... Read more

Scroogenomics

By: Joel Waldfogel

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Lloyd James reveals how consumer spending during the holidays generates enormous amounts of economic waste Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and . . . gift giving. Lots and lots—and lots—of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But... Read more

What on Earth is Going On?

By: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Narrated by: Tom Baird & Arthur House

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein READ BY TOM BAIRD AND ARTHUR HOUSE.The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all... Read more

Find Your Strongest Life

By: Marcus Buckingham

Narrated by: Marcus Buckingham

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you given up on “having it all”? Or maybe you’re so busy having it all that you can’t figure out how to enjoy it? Maybe, you don’t even know what “all” you’re supposed to have anymore?You are not alone.Women today are working, juggling, achieving, succeeding, and beating expectations at every turn—and they are less happy than ever. Which is... Read more

The Predictioneer's Game

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have... Read more

Forces of Fortune

By: Vali Nasr

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned Middle East expert Vali Nasr's bestselling book The Shia Revival profoundly transformed the debate about the Iraq War by unveiling how the Sunni-Shia rift was driving the insurgency. Now, in Forces of Fortune, Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that... Read more

Outsmarting Goliath

By: Debra Koontz Traverso

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Outsmarting Goliath confronts this paradox: Many of today’s consumers—potential customers—turn automatically to brand name products and services, forgetting that the well-advertised brontosauruses often deliver one-of-our-sizes-fits-all service and impersonal sales help. Yet a single phone call, a cleverly crafted letter, a stunning catalog,... Read more

Stop Acting Rich

By: Thomas J. Stanley

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals easy ways to build real wealthWith well over two million of his books sold, and huge praise from many media outlets, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on how the wealthy act and think. Now, in Stop Acting Rich: …And Start Living Like a Millionaire, he... Read more

Crash Proof 2.0

By: Peter D. Schiff

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The economic and monetary disaster, which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff warned of in the bestselling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical—it is here today. And while most people believe that the economic collapse is over, the reality is that it has only just begun. That's why he's returned with Crash Proof... Read more