Business audiobooks

The Power of a Positive No

By: William Ury

Narrated by: William Ury

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No. But as we all know, the wrong No can also destroy what we most value by alienating and angering people. That’s why saying No the right way is crucial. The secret to saying No without destroying... Read more

The Everything Managing People Book - Abridged

By: Gary McLain & Deborah S Romaine

Narrated by: Michael Coon

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Whether you're a first-time manager or a seasoned professional, you know that a motivated, productive, and fulfilled team is your most important asset. Completely updated and revised, The Everything Managing People Book, 2nd Edition arms you with all you need to create a winning team, including straightforward advice on hiring and firing,... Read more

The Everything Retirement Planning Book - Abridged

By: Judith R Harrington & Stanley Contribution by S...

Narrated by: Michael Coon

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

80 million baby-boomers will retire in the next two decades. 4 out of 10 people over 55 have less than $100,000 saved toward retirement! This audio addresses includes practical advice on how much money one will need in retirement, investments, IRAs, life insurance and annuities, social security, as well as the emotional issues attached to... Read more

The Everything Get-a-Job Book - Abridged

By: Dawn Rosenberg McKay

Narrated by: Michael Coon

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Whether you're a first-time job hunter or an experienced job hopper, The Everything Get-a-Job Book, 2nd Edition is your indispensable guide to the ever-changing job market. This easy-to-use resource takes you through the necessary steps to find a job you'll love. Look inside for up-to-date information on: - Writing powerful, effective resumes... Read more

The No Asshole Rule - Abridged

By: Robert I. Sutton

Narrated by: Robert I. Sutton

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work.

"What an asshole!"

How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford... Read more

12 - Abridged

By: Rodd Wagner & James K. Harter

Narrated by: Rodd Wagner

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Sequel to the Million-Copy Classic that Revolutionized Employee Engagement

How do great managers inspire top performance in employees? How do they generate enthusiasm, unite disparate personalities to focus on a common mission, and drive teams to achieve ever-higher goals?

More than a decade ago, The Gallup Organization combed through... Read more

On The Wealth of Nations

By: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Recognized almost instantly upon its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over 900 pages in two volumes—including the blockbuster 67-page "digression concerning the variations in the value of silver during the course of the last four... Read more

Being In Business: What's Love Got to Do With It?

By: Marguerite Moore Callaway

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's easy to find people to tell you how hard you'll work when you start your own business. Marguerite Moore Callaway doesn't disagree. But she also says you'll fall in love with it. You must, if you're to be successful. Read more

You Call the Shots

By: Cameron Johnson

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Why work for someone else when you can call your own shots, pursue your dreams, and find success on your terms by starting your own business? So many people end up bored with their jobs, stuck in the corporate grind, never pursuing their true passions.



As wildly successful young entrepreneur Cameron Johnson shows, you don't have to live that way.... Read more

Mindfulness @ Work

By: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. & Jon Kabat-Zinn, P...

Narrated by: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. & Jon Kabat-Zinn, P...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking audiobook Mindfulness @ Work, Daniel Goleman and Jon Kabat-Zinn explore the ways in which mindfulness can be applied by a variety of institutions and businesses to make better leaders and improve the quality of the workplace.

The ideas expressed in Goleman's Emotional Intelligence decades ago have taken on a life of their... Read more

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

By: Edwin Lefevre

Narrated by: Rick Rohan

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1923, this fictional biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the resource that generations of investors have turned to when they needed deeper insight into their own investing habits and those... Read more

Redefining Strength

By: Anne Firth Murray

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Firth Murray had a vision and a direction. She wanted to create a way to help women around the world. She needed to find someone, who could lead an organization willing to put how they worked on an equal plane with its results. Ultimately she became the leader she was looking for. Read more

Feeling Your Way to the Perfect Job

By: Laura George

Narrated by: Bec Kageyama

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura George helps people find perfect jobs and says most of us approach job seeking with the wrong attitude, "I want to have people move away from fear and start to go towards feeling valuable and feeling good about themselves." Read more

Exceeding Customer Expectations

By: Kirk Kazanjian

Narrated by: Gary Telles

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s the secret to wowing your customers while maintaining a loyal and dedicated workforce? No one knows better than Enterprise, the nationnation’s #1 car rental company, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Drawing upon the secrets time-tested strategies that have propelledhelped Enterprise grow from a single location in St. Louis car dealership into a $9... Read more

Exceeding Customer Expectations - Abridged

By: Kirk Kazanjian

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What’s the secret to wowing your customers while maintaining a loyal and dedicated workforce? No one knows better than Enterprise, the nationnation’s #1 car rental company, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Drawing upon the secrets time-tested strategies that have propelledhelped Enterprise grow from a single location in St. Louis car dealership into a $9... Read more

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

By: Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s holding you back? Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. Perhaps one small flaw–a behavior you barely even recognize–is the only thing that’s keeping you from where you want to be.

Who can help? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at... Read more

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Abridged

By: Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter

Narrated by: Marshall Goldsmith

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What’s holding you back? Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. Perhaps one small flaw–a behavior you barely even recognize–is the only thing that’s keeping you from where you want to be.

Who can help? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at... Read more

Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life

By: Larry Winget

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life is a Wall Street Journal number one best-seller that isn't afraid to tell you it's time to change. From motivational speaker Larry Winget, also known as The Pitbull of Personal Development and The World's Only Irritational Speaker, comes a not-so-typical self help book. Winget's hilarious and in-your-face... Read more

The Innovator's Solution

By: Michael E. Raynor & Clayton Christensen

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street... Read more

Discovering Your Greatest Opportunities

By: James B. Swartz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Swartz discovered many common traits in the world's most successful people that you'll find encouraging. For example, you're never too old, dismal failure is often followed by extraordinary achievement, and taking time off might turn on your greatest inspiration. Best of all, achieving your greatest success may be easier than you expect. He... Read more

Know-How

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan . . . The breakthrough book that links know-how—the skills of people who know what they are doing— with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader.How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric... Read more

The Carrot Principle

By: Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

Narrated by: Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Stick Management is out. Carrot management is in! The Carrot Principle offers proven strategies to help recognize and motivate your valued employees.

Since its original publication in 2007, the New York Times bestseller The Carrot Principle has received rave reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The New York Times, and has helped a... Read more

My Reality Check Bounced!

By: Jason Ryan Dorsey

Narrated by: Jason Ryan Dorsey

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms.

In your twenties you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you (“Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch,”), and... Read more

Top Performer - Abridged

By: Stephen C. Lundin

Narrated by: Carr Hagerman

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

We all sell something for a living -- whether it's a brand, a vision, an education, a direction, or a service. We might even be selling a set of numbers to a board meeting, learning to a student, or cereal to an infant. This eye-opening parable is about harnessing natural energy--yours and that of those around you--in order to take your sales,... Read more