Business audiobooks

Living Authentically And Simply

By: David Wann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing to consume excessively as a way of life is neither desirable nor possible, if we care about future generations. It seems clear that we need to alter our patterns of consumption in order to preserve and sustain our precious natural resources. David Wann suggests that if we change a few key priorities, many of our material wants will... Read more

The Teapot Dome Scandal

By: Laton McCartney

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s was all about oil—hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of petroleum. When the scandal finally broke, the consequences were tremendous. President Harding’s legacy was forever tarnished, while “Oil Cabinet” member Albert Fall was forced to resign and was imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the... Read more

Managing Change

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A certainty in life is that things will change - sometimes bringing new experiences we enjoy and at other times those we would prefer to avoid. While change may be certain, our natural aversion to it creates conflicting pressures.

Failure to recognise and address these conflicts is the main reason why change initiatives do not produce the gains,... Read more

Marketing to Win More Business

By: Rowmark Ltd

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In order to grow and survive in business, boosting your customer base and increasing your sales from those customers is paramount. And even if you are operating in the public sector, or in a non-profit organisation, there is still a need to communicate successfully with your target market.

This guide, written in a practical, straightforward... Read more

Handling Confrontation at Work

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This guide is primarily concerned with the safety of the person and the minimising of potential physical conflict and personal injury.

This guide looks at awareness of potential behaviour patterns that may lead to aggressiveness; avoidance of situations where the potential for aggressive behaviour exists; interpretation of non-verbal... Read more

Motivating Your Staff for Better Performance

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Business owners and managers are under increasing pressure to perform. Never has there been a better time to practice good people motivation and management techniques. Lack of employment security and flexible working contracts have reduced the level of loyalty, so more emphasis needs to be placed on building positive relationships with people.... Read more

Writing Newsletters and Articles

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a successful newsletter? How do you structure an article that people want to read? How do you secure a commission from a magazine? This guide will show you:


how to open articles

how to make them flow and use good closing paragraphs

how to use case studies

where to find experts and how to interview them

how to write the article up

how to... Read more

The Certifiable Salesperson

By: Laura Laaman & Tom Hopkins

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Hopkins, the world's leading expert on salesmanship and author of 11 books, joins forces with award-winning speaker Laura Laaman to create a fool-proof guide to being a successful salesperson. This handbook focuses on selling techniques, from handshakes and clothing to networking and presentations. Read more

The Company

By: John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Chosen by BusinessWeek as One of the Top Ten Business Books of the YearWith apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society is neither the state, nor the commune, nor the party; it is the company. From this bold premise, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge chart the rise of one of history’s great catalysts for good and... Read more

Investing in One Lesson

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Skousen has built his impressive reputation as one of the industry’s best-known investment advisors by consistently beating the market year after year. Now, he passes along his entire investment philosophy, based on his decades of experience, in a single, one-lesson book.Investing in One Lesson first unravels the intricacies of Wall Street,... Read more

Dare to Prepare

By: Ronald M. Shapiro

Narrated by: Ronald M. Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

During his forty-year career in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked with a great variety of people. He’s found that the secret for getting into the winner’s circle is simply disciplined preparation.In Dare to Prepare, successful people such as wine guru Robert Parker, investment legend Bill Miller, pianist... Read more

Leadership Is an Art

By: Max DePree

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As president and CEO of Herman Miller, Inc.—a firm which ranked high in Fortune magazine's surveys of the most admired, best managed companies to work for in America—Max DePree nurtured a culture of open communication and inclusion. In Leadership Is an Art, DePree expounds on his innovative style of business stewardship, one that contributed to... Read more

The Riddle - Abridged

By: Andrew Razeghi

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs thrive on their ability to be creative. New wealth flows to those who successfully introduce new ideas. While organizations claim to value creativity, they are often at a loss when attempting to conjure up novel ideas, particularly in a world where technology has made information readily available to... Read more

Fewer, Shorter, Better Meetings

By: Brian Lomas

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This easy step-by-step guide will show you how to make meetings more effective; how to get meetings off to the right start; how to get difficult messages across; how to encourage participation; how to manage conflict in meetings; how to set agendas and keep the meeting focused; whether or not to call a meeting; and the alternatives to meetings. Read more

Giving Confident Presentations

By: Brian Lomas

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Making a presentation strikes fear into many hearts. It ranks alongside going to the dentist or being put into a cage with a hungry lion or two! Wherever it sits along the fear scale for you, this guide is designed to get through it, if not actually reaching the point of enjoying giving a presentation. This guide includes: how to research and... Read more

Recruiting the Right Staff

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing the right people is critical to the success of any business. Appointing the wrong person can be expensive, not only in monetary terms but also in terms of wasted time and energy. It can also lead to internal conflict, higher absenteeism, and lost production time. Recruitment is not simply about discovering ways to get hold of someone... Read more

Double Your Income Doing What You Love

By: Raymond Aaron & Sue Lacher

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Raymond Aaron, the nation's number #1 success and investment coach, has committed his life to teaching people just like you how to utilize his powerful goal setting strategies and life management tools to dramatically change your life for the better.
Plus, using his own innovative techniques developed over the last two decades, he shows you how... Read more

Stress and Time Management

By: Brian Lomas

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Time is a wasting asset, because once it has been spent, it can never be retrieved. There is no such thing as a refund, and the only re-runs are the ones that might be shown on the television. Everyone is under more pressure these days - the pace of life is faster, and individuals are being asked to work longer hours, sometimes with damaging... Read more

The People's Tycoon

By: Steven Watts

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car... Read more

Better Budgeting for Your Business

By: Crimson eBooks

Narrated by: David Ryder

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In an increasingly cost conscious world, control over your organisation's income and expenditure is vital. For most successful organisations, this control begins with a budgeting process that sets the scene and forms the basis for the business operation for the year ahead. But for many people, budgeting is a time-consuming nuisance to be endured... Read more

What the Customer Wants You to Know

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of What the CEO Wants You to Know teaches you how to rethink sales from the outside in.



More than ever, these days, the sales process often turns into a war about price—a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all the fun out of selling. But there's a better way to think about sales, says bestselling author Ram Charan, who... Read more

Authentic Leadership

By: Bill George

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There can be no doubt about the credentials of Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, who has been named one of BusinessWeek's "Top 25 Managers." In Authentic Leadership, George lays out his plan for improving corporate America's flaws through responsible leadership. Read more

The Logic of Life

By: Tim Harford

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune... Read more

The Point of the Deal

By: Danny Ertel & Mark Gordon

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do so many deals that look good on paper end up in tatters? Deal makers often treat the handshake or signed contract - getting to "yes" - as the final destination in their bargaining journey rather than the start of a cooperative venture.

Even worse, most companies reward negotiators on the basis of the number and size of the deals they're... Read more