Business audiobooks

The Upside of the Downturn

By: Geoff Colvin

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Some businesses – and some people – will emerge from this downturn stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right now.

Geoff Colvin, one of America’s most respected business journalists, says even the scariest recession has an upside. The best managers know... Read more

The Master-Key to Riches - Abridged

By: Napoleon Hill

Narrated by: Joel Fotinos

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here is the actual handbook that Napoleon Hill provided to certified teachers of his ideas- a master class from the greatest motivational teacher of all time.

The Master-Key to Riches is the blueprint that Napoleon Hill placed in the hands of those who would teach and perfect his success methods. Now revised and updated for the twenty-first... Read more

Let Your Life Speak

By: Parker J. Palmer

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this honest and compelling meditation, Parker Palmer reflects upon vocation, spirit, and the life journey with a depth of insight that will touch anyone who yearns for an authentic way of standing and serving in the world. Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do—it is about finding what we can'tnotdo."Let your life... Read more

The Deciding Factor

By: Josh Larry & Nash E. Rosenberger

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's high-tech world, all companies are striving to create business value from digital data, but the real value in data comes from how it is used to make decisions. At the end of the day, what drives the results your company achieves is the millions of decisions made every day that are influenced by customer interactions and transactions.... Read more

Getting Green Done

By: Auden Schendler

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing “green” buildings. What’s more, the business consultants say going green is easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling with the... Read more

Deciphering the Shape of Economic Recovery

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What do economists mean when they talk about the shape of a recession or recovery in terms of letters of the alphabet? Paul Solman talks with Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to understand how we graph a recession and its corresponding recovery. Then, leading economists weigh in on the shape they think the recovery... Read more

The E-Myth Enterprise

By: Michael E. Gerber

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“This excellent book is a must-read for current and aspiring entrepreneurs.”
—Booklist
Discover how to turn a great idea into a thriving business with The E-Myth Enterprise, using the proven methods that bestselling author Michael  E. Gerber has developed over the course of his more than forty years as an entrepreneur and coach. Michael  E.Gerber... Read more

The Whuffie Factor

By: Tara Hunt

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grassroots, and interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do you do it?



While The Whuffie Factor traverses the landscape of Web 2.0 and... Read more

New Deal or Raw Deal?

By: Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton Folsom, Jr., exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and... Read more

SCOTUS Discussions June 2009

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about the Supreme Court's decision on prisoners' legal rights to test DNA evidence after their convictions. Read more

The Small Business Bible, 2E

By: Steven D. Strauss

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For a comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything a small business owner would need to know about starting and succeeding in business, consult The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business, 2nd Edition.
Discover candid advice, effective techniques, insider information, and success secrets... Read more

The Little Book of Main Street Money

By: Jonathan Clements

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Little Book of Main Street Money, Clements brings us back to basics, with common sense suggestions for intelligent money management. Chock-full of financial guidance that will stand up in any market, the book also reflects a financial philosophy that Clements has developed over a lifetime of watching Wall Street and writing about money -... Read more

Owning Up

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Owning Up

Your world as a director has suddenly changed. You've seen members of other boards take the heat when their companies imploded. The managements of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Washington Mutual clearly failed, but so did their boards. Now the board of every company beset with problems is coming under scrutiny.

The... Read more

In Pursuit of Elegance

By: Matthew E. May

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darned irresistible? What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks? The answer is elegance.Matthew May explores why certain events, products, and people... Read more

The Sages

By: Charles Morris

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Three titans of finance predicted the current economic crisis several years ago, but their warnings went unheeded. A New York Times bestselling author distills the wisdom of all three.

Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros,... Read more

I Hate People!

By: Marc Hershon & Jonathan Littman

Narrated by: Jonathan Littman & Marc Hershon

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Face it, whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I HATE PEOPLE!, a smart, counter-intuitive, andirreverentturn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify theTen Least Wanted--the people you... Read more

Gravitational Marketing

By: Jimmy Vee, Joel Bauer & Travis Miller

Narrated by: Travis Miller

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Wouldn't it be great if you could just sit there on your duff while customers came to you—with no need for cold-calling, prospecting, hard-selling, or flat-out begging for business? Too bad it doesn't work that way in the real world. Or does it?

In Gravitational Marketing, you'll discover just how easy it is to create a low-cost, high-powered... Read more

Integration Marketing

By: Mark Joyner

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The biggest, most successful businesses you can think of all started small and grew their way to massive success. What was their secret? Is there something those companies have in common—from Microsoft to McDonald’s to U.S. Steel—that helped them grow from small businesses to globe-spanning corporations?

The answer is “yes,” and it’s right here.... Read more

Life Inc.

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This didn’t just happen.

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer... Read more

Womenomics

By: Claire Shipman & Katherine Kay

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“A personal, provocative, and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life.”
—Diane Sawyer Womenomics, the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, is an invaluable guide for this generation of professional women, provide knowledgeable advice on how to “Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better.”... Read more

The Halo Effect

By: Phil Rosenzweig

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions—errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a brilliant and unconventional book, Phil Rosenzweig unmasks the delusions that are commonly found in the corporate world. These delusions affect the business press and... Read more

ScrumButs

By: Ken Schwaber

Narrated by: Ken Schwaber

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The use of Scrum is rapidly spreading, and the occurrence of "ScrumBut" is equally rapid. A Scrum But is when an organization adopting Scrum has changed Scrum, under the logic of "We use Scrum, but we've had to change it because in our organization we ... " Listen to this 60-minute interview with Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of the Scrum method,... Read more

Lift

By: Robert E. Quinn & Ryan W. Quinn

Narrated by: J. Christopher Dunn

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Robert E. Quinn (Deep Change, 90,000 copies sold) and his son, Ryan Quinn, show through personal experience and scientific research how anyone can become a positive force in any situation through a proven method to increase his or her level of influence and effectiveness. Read more

Flat Earth News

By: Nick Davies

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession." When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of... Read more