Business audiobooks

Goals! - Abridged

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on more than twenty years of experience and forty years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than one million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains the seven key elements of goal setting and the twelve steps necessary to... Read more

100 Ways to Motivate Others

By: Steve Chandler & Scott Richardson

Narrated by: Steve Chandler

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Short takes for the time-challenged leader. The logical follow-up to Chandler's previous best-sellers, 00 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Reinventing Yourself. Leadership can be fun if you break it into 100 easy pieces. Be the great leader you've always wanted to be with 100 pithy, persuasive alternatives to the usual way most of us try to... Read more

Carolyn 101 - Abridged

By: Carolyn Kepcher

Narrated by: Carolyn Kepcher

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Get solid career advice from successful businesswoman and former Trump Organization executive and costar of The Apprentice in this New York Times bestseller that shows how to take your career to the next level.

Known for her cool demeanor and her no-holds-barred assessments of the candidates in the boardroom on The Apprentice, Carolyn Kepcher... Read more

How to Work a Room - Abridged

By: Susan RoAne

Narrated by: Susan RoAne

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over a million copies of this networking classic have been sold worldwide! Now Susan Roane's invaluable advice is available in audio

You enter a crowded room. For a moment every eye is on you. And a little voice inside you cries, "HELP!" If this has ever happened to you, you're not alone! Walking into a room full of people you don't know can be... Read more

Nothing Down for the 2000s - Abridged

By: Robert G. Allen

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen's Nothing Down for the '90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his readers are now financially independent and many actual millionaires attribute their wealth to his techniques. Why has this blockbuster bestseller... Read more

The Next Great Bubble Boom - Abridged

By: Harry S. Dent

Narrated by: Harry S. Dent

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

For over 15 years, New York Times bestselling author Harry S. Dent, Jr. has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three previous works, Dent predicted the financial recession of the early 90s, the economic expansion of the mid-90s, and the financial free-for-all of 1998-2000.
The Next Great Bubble Boom offers a... Read more

What It Takes: Speak Up, Step Up, Move Up - Abridged

By: Amy Henry

Narrated by: Amy Henry

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Yes, men wrote the rules of the workplace—but now Amy Henry, the last woman standing on The Apprentice, shows young business women how to make those rules work for them!
In WHAT IT TAKES, Amy Henry, a formidable business woman and national star from The Apprentice, shares her experiences, skills, and in-your-face advice for moving up in today's... Read more

Confidence - Abridged

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Narrated by: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

There’s a fundamental principle at work—the... Read more

Nickel and Dimed

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers... Read more

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?

By: Louis V. Gerstner

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully implementing a turnaround strategy. Filled with Gerstner's... Read more

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? - Abridged

By: Louis V. Gerstner

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully implementing a turnaround strategy. Filled with Gerstner's... Read more

When Fish Fly - Abridged

By: John Yokoyama & Joseph Michelli Ph.D

Narrated by: Kevin Gray

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this revealing business advice audiobook, the magic of the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market proves a dynamic example of what a group of people can create when they are aligned and living a powerful vision. Here for the first time, owner John Yokoyama explains in his own words just how he transformed his business into a workplace that is... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna & George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Born over 2,400 years ago, warrior, thinker, and leader Sun Tzu lived during a time of great internecine conflict in China. A classic of Chinese literature, Art of War reveals the strategies, tactics, and insights that lead to success. Mastery of warfare and the maintenance of power are the most important values in Sun's philosophy--without... Read more

The Warren Buffett Way

By: Robert Hagstrom

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1994, THE WARREN BUFFET WAY gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind this living legend's spectacular success. Tracing Warren Buffett's career from the beginning, Hagstrom revealed to listeners exactly how, starting with an initial investment of only $100, Buffett... Read more

Lead Like Jesus

By: Ken Blanchard, Rick Warren & Bill Hybels

Narrated by: Rick Warren, Ken Blanchard & Bill Hybels

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Jesus is simply the greatest leadership model of all time, and He asks us to make a difference in the world we live in by being effective servant leaders. Ken Blanchard, Rick Warren and Bill Hybels join forces to offer a clear, insightful look at Jesus, the servant leader. Lead Like Jesus is a new concept to help people take God out of the... Read more

Confidence

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

There’s a fundamental principle at work—the... Read more

The Truth About the Drug Companies

By: Marcia Angell

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over... Read more

Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World

By: Zig Ziglar

Narrated by: Zig Ziglar

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps our hope alive. That’s what this audio book is about. Do you have five minutes a day to spare? If so, you can experience a fresh take on life—renewed hopefulness, greater motivation, and deeper inspiration—simply by beginning each morning and ending each... Read more

The 60 Second Procrastinator

By: Jeff Davidson

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of two intelligent guides on stress and time management, Davidson offers down-to-earth lessons on how to get the important things done. Though his conversational charm makes him come across like your best friend talking over lunch, the author is a seasoned authority who explains procrastination with clarity. He knows a lot about the... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”  —H. L. Mencken
 
H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more

Candyfreak

By: Steve Almond

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. Read more

Ugly Americans - Abridged

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: TBD

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the... Read more

The Law of Success, Volume I

By: Napoleon Hill

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A scheduled three-hour interview between a young Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie strung out to three days. During that time, Carnegie revealed his secrets of success and then offered young Hill the task of organizing and systematizing the world's first philosophy of individual achievement based on the principles. From that moment on, Napoleon... Read more

How to Make Big Money In Your Own Small Business - Abridged

By: Jeffrey J. Fox

Narrated by: Jeffrey J. Fox

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of Fox's bestselling How to Become a Rainmaker, entrepreneurs and small business owners learn how to compete in the marketplace and make their businesses thrive

Ever dream of starting your own business? According to USA Today, more than 47 million people want to own their own businesses and over 20 million people actually do. In... Read more