Business audiobooks

Crucial Conversations

By: Emily Gregory, Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, Jo...

Narrated by: Emily Gregory & Joseph Grenny

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back... Read more

You're Not Listening

By: Kate Murphy

Narrated by: Kate Murphy

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine

**This program is read by the author**

When was the last time you... Read more

The End of the World is Just the Beginning

By: Peter Zeihan

Narrated by: Peter Zeihan

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in... Read more

From Strength to Strength

By: Arthur C. Brooks

Narrated by: Arthur C. Brooks

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks.

Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often... Read more

Why Nations Fail

By: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich... Read more

Laziness Does Not Exist

By: Devon Price

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough.

Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles.

Like... Read more

Mediocre

By: Ijeoma Oluo

Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an  “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

By: Patrick Lencioni

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she... Read more

Hidden Potential

By: Adam Grant

Narrated by: Adam Grant, Maurice Ashley, R.A. Dickey, Evelyn...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would’ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress.”
—Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates... Read more

Disney High

By: Ashley Spencer

Narrated by: Lalaine

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor Lalaine, known for her roles in Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, The Disney Channel original movie You Wish, and her role as Kate in the 1999 remake of Annie. It features a foreword and an epilogue read by the author.

The first unauthorized look at the inner workings—and ultimate breakdown—of the Disney Channel machine

For... Read more

The Tipping Point

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person... Read more

Leaders Eat Last

By: Simon Sinek

Narrated by: Simon Sinek

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150+ million views).

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted... Read more

Unlearning Silence

By: Elaine Lin Hering

Narrated by: Elaine Lin Hering

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Unlearning Silence is the book I wish I had when I started my career….This book is going to change the workplace for the better."—Pooja Lakshmin MD, psychiatrist & best-selling author of Real Self-Care

“A necessary read…Unlearning Silence offers an opportunity and tools to change things within and around us – for... Read more

High Conflict

By: Amanda Ripley

Narrated by: Amanda Ripley

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over.

That’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That’s good conflict, and it’s a necessary force... Read more

Daring Greatly

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller. 1 million copies sold!

From thought leader Dr. Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.
 
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have... Read more

Debt - Updated and Expanded

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more

How Minds Change

By: David McRaney

Narrated by: David McRaney

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2022 Porchlight Marketing and Sales Book of the Year

A brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant—by the bestselling author of You Are Not So Smart

What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to... Read more

Less is More

By: Jason Hickel

Narrated by: Ben Crystal & Clifford Samuel

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.

If we want to have a... Read more

Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first... Read more

Multipliers, Revised and Updated

By: Liz Wiseman

Narrated by: Liz Wiseman & John Meagher

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability... Read more

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

By: Jason Schreier

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes listeners on a fascinating odyssey behind... Read more

Worn

By: Sofi Thanhauser

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of—an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet.

“We learn that, if we were a bit more curious about our clothes, they would offer us rich, interesting and often... Read more

Lucky Loser

By: Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive... Read more

How to Break Up with Your Phone

By: Catherine Price

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life.

“I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help... Read more