Business audiobooks

Transparency

By: Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole & Warren Bennis

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brief and timely audiobook, best-selling authors and experts in their field look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations for disastrous results and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy honesty and openness.
In three separate essays the authors explore the lightening rod concept of "transparency" which has... Read more

Extreme Toyota

By: Norihiko Shimizu, Emi Osono & Hirotaka Takeuchi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

To an outsider, Toyota is hard to understand. The company moves forward gradually while also advancing in big leaps. It is frugal with its resources while spending extravagantly on people and projects. It is both efficient and redundant; it cultivates an environment of stability and paranoia; it is hierarchical and bureaucratic, but encourages... Read more

The Middle-Class Millionaire

By: Russ Alan Prince & Lewis Schiff

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book, Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff examine the far-reaching impact of the middle-class millionaires—people who enjoy a net worth ranging from one to ten million dollars who have earned rather than inherited their wealth. Comprising 8.4 million households, these working rich are exerting a powerful influence on our... Read more

It's Our Ship - Abridged

By: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Narrated by: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, legendary commander of the USS Benfold, continues in the same vein of his bestselling book It's Your Ship with the knowledge he's gained from his speaking to and advising some of the top business minds in the world.

The story of Captain Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside... Read more

The She Spot

By: Lisa Chen & Lisa Witter

Narrated by: Sally Hughes

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this practical, provocative and inspiring guide, Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen of public relations powerhouse Fenton Communications offer social change organizations key recommendations for leveraging the untapped power of women for positive change through fundraising, advocacy and the ballot box. Read more

The Sales Bible

By: Jeffrey Gitomer

Narrated by: Jeffrey Gitomer

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Gitomer's bestselling work in which he shares his tips on how to be a successful salesperson has a new edition and is now available on audio. He provides motivational advice and practical techniques for initiating, maintaining, and closing a sales presentation. Written in a breezy manner with short, easy-to-remember suggestions, this... Read more

Drive Business Performance - Abridged

By: Bruno Aziza & Joey Fitts

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How can your organization increase its agility, alignment, and accountability to improve performance? Developing performance management capabilities means changing the way people are empowered to make better decisions. It requires a transition from a restrictive, command-and-control approach to a management style that includes more participants... Read more

The Leadership Lessons of Jesus

By: Bob Briner & Ray Pritchard

Narrated by: Mark Warner

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Shape your leadership skills in the image of the greatest leader in history.  With an investment of less than ten minutes a day, this audio shows how you can become a more inspiring, more effective, more successful leader by incorporating the Leadership Lessons of Jesus into your life. Want to convey your vision to the people you lead? Inspire... Read more

While America Aged

By: Roger Lowenstein

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In While America Aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers—promises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done. Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future finances—and when the farm gets sold out... Read more

Economic Facts and Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric. Writing in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many... Read more

AC/DC

By: Tom McNichol

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC). AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison bet wrong in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current.... Read more

Den of Thieves - Abridged

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: John Hockenberry

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael... Read more

The Secret of the Ages - Abridged

By: Robert Collier

Narrated by: Joel Fotinos

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joining the ranks of Tarcher's runaway editions of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Public Speaking for Success by Dale Carnegie, and The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles, here are three landmark guides to a life of prosperity-now restored to print in beautiful, signature volumes.

- Newly discovered by fans of The Secret, the... Read more

Millionaire by Thirty

By: Douglas R. Andrew, Emron Andrew & Aaron Andrew

Narrated by: Douglas R. Andrew, Emron Andrew & Aaron Andrew

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive, easy to understand and breakthrough guide on how young people can take their limited first income and turn it into a small fortune by the time they turn thirty from an expert financial planner.
Most people know that there are 70 million Baby Boomers in America today....but what is less known is that there are approximately 100... Read more

The One Minute Entrepreneur

By: Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson & Ethan Willis

Narrated by: Sam Freed, Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson & Michael ...

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated business leaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story that reveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager), Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning, and... Read more

How to Wow

By: Frances Cole Jones

Narrated by: Frances Cole Jones

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From prominent communication coach Frances Cole Jones comes this indispensable guide in which anyone can learn how to make a spectacular impression in all aspects of their work life -- from giving top notch presentations to dazzling a client to wowing at cocktail parties. It's the go-to handbook for achieving success by making a lasting impression. Read more

The Turnaround Kid

By: Steve Miller

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steve Miller has a knack for taking over companies just before they are about to smash into a wall," the Wall Street Journal observed. "In fact, it is his specialty." For thirty years—beginning with the legendary Chrysler bailout, which he negotiated as a key member of Lee Iacocca's team, to the revival of the U.S. steel industry—Miller has... Read more

Good in a Room

By: Stephanie Palmer

Narrated by: Judith Brackley

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Business consultant and former MGM director of creative affairs Stephanie Palmer reveals the techniques used by Hollywood's top writers, producers, and directors to get financing for their projects and explains how you can apply these techniques to be more successful in your own high-stakes meetings. Because, as Palmer has found, the strategies... Read more

A Splendid Exchange

By: William J. Bernstein

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?



In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its... Read more

Writing Advertising Copy

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Copywriting is easy, isn't it? Just put a few words together and stick it in the newspaper, or send out a letter and wait for the orders to flood in. Well, if you want throw money away, then that is exactly what you do. But planning and using the right techniques will make your advertisement or letter more effective and get you results. This... Read more

Open Space Technology, 3rd Edition

By: Harrison Owen

Narrated by: Jay Webb

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A revised and updated edition of an acknowledged classic of the Organizational Development literature. Over 30,000 of first and second editions sold. Read more

Uniting the Virtual Workforce - Abridged

By: Karen Sobel Lojeski, PhD & Richard R. Reilly, PhD

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance, comprised of three major axes: physical distance - geographic, time zone, or organizational; operational distance - multitasking, communication problems,... Read more

Your Internet Cash Machine

By: Jillian Coleman Wheeler & Joe Vitale

Narrated by: Joe Vitale & Jillian Coleman Wheeler

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Cash in on online opportunities today!
How would you like to start making lots of money on the Internet? Let expert Joe Vitale, "The Buddha of the Internet", and online guru Jillian Coleman Wheeler enlighten you and lead you towards the path of prosperity in Your Internet Cash Machine. They will show you how you can rake in astronomical profits... Read more

Financial Infidelity

By: Bonnie Eaker Weil, PhD

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Financial Infidelity is the #1 problem in relationships—it’s a deception so subtle you wouldn’t even realize you’re cheating. Whether it’s a secret credit card, hidden shopping bags, revenge spending, a gambling problem, or more overt financial manipulations and powerplays, the infidelities associated with money can be just as damaging to a... Read more