Business audiobooks

Sharkproof

By: Harvey Mackay

Narrated by: Harvey Mackay

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt comes an essential job-hunting book. Harvey Mackay shows listeners how to get hired with techniques that can be applied to everyone's job search, regardless of their expectations or previous... Read more

The Inspiring Leader

By: John H. Zenger

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive study conducted over four years, that leaders... Read more

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the go-go nineties, Jordan Belfort proved that you didn’t need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. His company was good at separating wealthy investors from their cash and spending it as fast as it came in—on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordan’s empire crashed, the man who had become legend was cornered into a... Read more

Stop The Investing Rip-Off - Abridged

By: David B. Loeper

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2006, the GDP for financial services was nearly $1.1 trillion. Total U.S. financial assets stood at $44 trillion in 2007, meaning that the financial services industry as a whole is skimming 2.5% a year out of everyone's wealth.

Some of these costs are obvious, like ATM fees, insurance premiums, mutual fund expense ratios, brokerage commissions... Read more

How the Mighty Fall

By: Jim Collins

Narrated by: Jim Collins

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

""Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.""—Jim CollinsDecline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed.Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early... Read more

Who's Got Your Back

By: Keith Ferrazzi

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman” and the rest of our culture’s go-it alone mentality. The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous... Read more

The Housing Boom and Bust

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages, and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the... Read more

Investing in the Bank of You and Me

By: Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Greco has a solution for our economy. With his fresh perspective on money, credit, and…well…civilization, he believes we can save our economy and our planet by reconstructing our financial system-and find ourselves happier and healthier in the bargain. Read more

The Sticking Point Solution

By: Jay Abraham

Narrated by: Jay Abraham

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Businesses can plateau, stall, or stagnate…without the owners or key executives even realizing it. A business might be achieving incremental year-on-year growth and yet still be in a situation of stagnation or stall. Why? Because entrepreneurs and executives often focus on the wrong things and don’t know how to solve the problems that get their... Read more

The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way

By: Jeffrey Gitomer

Narrated by: Jeffrey Gitomer

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Little Red Book of Selling...

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Green Book of Getting Your Way digs deep into the 9.5 elements that make persuasion, and getting your way, happen. By breaking down the elements, you will begin to understand, take action, become proficient, and then master the ability to persuade.... Read more

A Gift to My Children

By: Jim Rogers

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes for a successful investor? More important, what makes for a happy and meaningful life? According to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the road to financial success and the road to a meaningful life are one and the same. In A Gift to My Children, Rogers lays out his advice to young people on how to achieve the financial success they need... Read more

Rules of Thumb

By: Alan M. Webber

Narrated by: Alan M. Webber

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Alan Webber’s wise words give guidance and hope in a world gone upside down. Incisive and practical, timely and timeless, he is a mentor of the highest order.”—Jim Collins, New York Times bestselling author of Good to Great In Rules of Thumb, Alan Webber—co-founder of Fast Company and one of the most important thought leaders of the last two... Read more

The Richest Man in Town - Abridged

By: Randall Jones

Narrated by: Randall Jones

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Secretly, if not overtly, almost everyone in America desires to become rich: to make it big, to enjoy the fruits of the most successful life imaginable. But unfortunately, most of us don't have a clue how to reach these all too elusive goals. Quite simply, there's no definitive road map for getting there, no proven plan, and certainly very... Read more

The Story Behind Feature-Driven Development

By: Jeff DeLuca

Narrated by: Jeff DeLuca

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Feature-Driven Development is one of six recognized major agile development methodologies. FDD and Jeff De Luca are a part of the Agile Software Consortium, and FDD was one of the original agile methodologies represented at the signing of the Agile Manifesto. While most recent writing about agile has concerned Scrum and Extreme Programming... Read more

Escape from Cubicle Nation

By: Pamela Slim

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite grim headlines about the economy, you don’t have to stay in a job you intensely hate. There’s a better opportunity waiting out there, and escaping from cubicle nation is easier than you think.Pamela Slim spent a decade traveling all over the country as a self-employed trainer for large corporations. She was surprised to find that many of... Read more

Beans

By: Charles Decker & Leslie Yerkes

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this little book is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes. As the coffee shop owner looks for ways to retain his customer base, a consultant helps him focus on what really matters. Authors Yerkes and Decker, renowned for their consulting and business savvy, have done... Read more

Digital Barbarism

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its... Read more

Back to Basics Management

By: Matthew J. Culligan, C. Suzanne Deakins & Arthu...

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Back to Basics Management explains the difference between business administration and business management, how this distinction has been obscured, and the need to revive the craft of leadership in management. It is an invaluable book for every conscientious manager, detailing the tools used in effective management, and it offers concise and... Read more

Negotiate Your Way to Riches

By: Peter Wink

Narrated by: Peter Wink

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike any negotiating book you’ve ever heard!
If you buy or sell anything personally or professionally, this audio book can make or save you a fortune!

This complete guide to negotiating great deals gives you step-by-step instructions to get anything you want for personal or business use for a fraction of the asking price…or, better yet, no... Read more

Applied Economics

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Newly revised and updated, this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America’s most revered economists.Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination,... Read more

Guerrilla P.R.

By: Michael Levine

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen can attest to the fact that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. If you are a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, here are the resources necessary to mount... Read more

Google Speaks

By: Janet Lowe

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In many ways, Google is the prototype of a successful twenty-first century company. It uses technology in new ways to make information universally accessible; promotes a corporate culture that encourages creativity among its employees; and takes its role as a corporate citizen very seriously, investing in green initiatives and developing the... Read more

The Global Deal

By: Nicholas Stern

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, economist Nicholas Stern was commissioned by the British government to direct the largest study ever conducted into the scientific reality of global warming. The Stern Report, which made headlines around the world, is far and away the deepest and most far-reaching exploration into the economic and ethical consequences of this... Read more

Lords of Finance

By: Liaquat Ahamed

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for... Read more