Business audiobooks

Think! - Abridged

By: Michael R. LeGault

Narrated by: Michael R. LeGault

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Outraged by the downward spiral of intellect and culture, Michael LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no... Read more

Dealers of Lightning - Abridged

By: Michael A. Hiltzik

Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the... Read more

O poder do uau (resumo) - Abridged

By: Funcionários da Zappos

Narrated by: Rodrygo Gomes

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM RESUMO DA OBRA O PODER DO UAU, DE FUNCIONÁRIOS DA ZAPPOS. PARA SE APRODUNDAR, LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA Um ambiente divertido, onde não há hierarquias ou chefes formais. Uma empresa on-line que não se restringe ao mundo digital, que se preocupa com a comunidade e organiza eventos beneficentes. Se você é funcionário, dependendo da situação,... Read more

Stung - Abridged

By: Gary Stephen Ross

Narrated by: Stephen Barker Turner

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of dollars in fraudulent loans. Despite... Read more

Distúrbios de rejeição ao dinheiro - Abridged

By: Vitor Abdala

Narrated by: Márcio Lino

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Quando o dinheiro é uma força que estimula o medo e a ansiedade, ele se torna o vilão. Esse fato leva a um ciclo de escape: ao invés de lidar com nossos problemas com o dinheiro, fugimos deles. O que resta é negação e rejeição financeiras, aversão excessiva ao risco e contenção exagerada de gastos. Read more

Moneyball - Abridged

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Michael Lewis

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur... Read more

Reengineering the Corporation - Abridged

By: Michael Hammer & James Champy

Narrated by: Michael Hammer & James Champy

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No business concept was more important to America's economic revival in the 1990s than reengineering -- introduced to the world in Michael Hammer and James Champy's Reengineering the Corporation. Already a classic, this international bestseller describes how the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture can achieve a... Read more

7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life - Abridged

By: Michelle Singletary

Narrated by: Michelle Singletary

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The best financial planner Michelle Singletary ever knew was Big Mama, her grandmother. Big Mama raised Michelle and her four brothers and sisters on a salary that never reached more than $13,000 a year. Yet at her death, Big Mama owned her own home, had paid off a car loan, and had a beautiful collection of Sunday-go-to-meeting church hats and... 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 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

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

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

Start Late, Finish Rich - Abridged

By: David Bach

Narrated by: David Bach

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

David Bach has a plan to help you live and finish rich—no matter where you start

So you feel like you’ve started late?

You are not alone.

What if I told you that right now as you flip through this book, 70% of the people in the store with you are living paycheck to paycheck?

What if I told you that the man browsing the aisle to your left owes more... Read more

The Warren Buffett Way, 2nd Edition - Abridged

By: Robert Hagstrom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First published in 1984, 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

The Likeability Factor - Abridged

By: Tim Sanders

Narrated by: Tim Sanders

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family?

Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams?

Do you want to become a more popular person?

This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you.

After all, life is a series of popularity... Read more

The Future for Investors - Abridged

By: Jeremy J. Siegel

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The new paradigm for investing and building wealth in the twenty-first century. The Future for Investors reveals new strategies that take advantage of the dramatic changes and opportunities that will appear in world markets.

Jeremy Siegel, one of the world’s top investing experts, has taken a long, hard, and in-depth look at the market and the... Read more

Conspiracy of Fools - Abridged

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.

It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron... Read more

Ponzi's Scheme - Abridged

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous... Read more

Meet You in Hell - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more

The Pampered Chef - Abridged

By: Doris Christopher

Narrated by: Doris Christopher

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

At Berkshire Hathaway, we like companies that are easy to understand. Doris Christopher’s “keep it simple” approach has a lot to teach anyone who is reaching for the American Dream. Frankly, if I can’t understand a company’s business, I figure their customers must have a pretty hard time figuring it out, too.

I would challenge anyone on Wall... Read more

The Google Story - Abridged

By: David A. Vise & Mark Malseed

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and... Read more

Copy This! - Abridged

By: Paul Orfalea & Ann Marsh

Narrated by: Todd Cummings

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No business autobiography has ever let it all hang out like this one. In building an unconventionally democratic multinational company that has been named by Fortune, Forbes, and Working Mother magazines as one of the best places to work in America, Paul Orfalea never tamed his impulsive, rebellious nature, and he discusses his flaws and... Read more

The Ape in the Corner Office - Abridged

By: Richard Conniff

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tired of swimming with the sharks? Fed up with that big ape down the hall? Real animals can teach us better ways to thrive in the workplace jungle.

You’re ambitious and want to get ahead, but what’s the best way to do it? Become the biggest, baddest predator? The proverbial 800-pound gorilla? Or does nature teach you to be more subtle and... Read more

You're in Charge--Now What? - Abridged

By: Thomas J. Neff & James M. Citrin

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Getting a new job or a big promotion is like building a house: You need to get the foundation right for both. With a job, the quick-drying cement is how well you do in your first hundred days, since they establish the foundation for long-term momentum and great performance.

Tom Neff and Jim Citrin are two of the world’s leading experts on... Read more