Business audiobooks

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated

By: Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling, Scott ...

Narrated by: Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling & Scott...

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the book “every leader should read” (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, The Four... Read more

Think Faster, Talk Smarter

By: Matt Abrahams

Narrated by: Matt Abrahams

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with these essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast.

“A roadmap to mastering the art of thinking quickly and speaking confidently, this is... Read more

The Wolves of K Street

By: Brody Mullins & Luke Mullins

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a “not-so-guilty pleasure” (The New York Times): irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and impossible to put down.

In the 1970s, Washington’s center of power began to shift away from elected... Read more

Keeping Finance Personal

By: Ellyce Fulmore

Narrated by: Ellyce Fulmore

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional approach to personal finance from queer, neurodivergent personal finance educator and TikToker, Ellyce Fulmore.
 
There’s no magic formula for being “good with money.” The perfect budgeting spreadsheet or debt repayment plan will never address the root of your money issues. When Ellyce Fulmore started her journey with personal... Read more

All the Gold Stars

By: Rainesford Stauffer

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.

Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to... Read more

The Customer Is Always Wrong

By: Scott Seiss

Narrated by: Scott Seiss

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Customers want you to magically produce something from the back room. Bosses schedule you on your day off. Corporate policies are mandated that make zero practical sense. Sound familiar?If you've ever worked in customer service (or any job, really), you know that everyone else—the customer, the boss, the company—is always... Read more

Rework

By: Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. 

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need... Read more

The Millionaire Fastlane, 10th Anniversary Edition

By: MJ DeMarco

Narrated by: Bruno Marsala & MJ DeMarco

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Have You Been Sold a 40 Year Financial Lie?There's a Fastlane to millions, a shortcut paved by mathematics where you can LIVE RICHLY NOW versus DYING RICH LATER. Instead, an army of financial gurus and self-proclaimed "experts" have brainwashed you into believing a dream-killing dogma I call the "Slowlane." Their suffocating plan involves... Read more

The JOLT Effect

By: Matthew Dixon & Ted McKenna

Narrated by: Matthew Dixon & Ted McKenna

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling co-author of The Challenger Sale, a paradigm-shattering approach to overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales

In sales, the worst thing you can hear from a customer isn’t “no.” It’s “I need to think about it.” When this happens, deeply entrenched business advice says to double down on your efforts to sell a buyer... Read more

Mutual Aid

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921), one of the most individual political figures of his time, is best known as an influential anarchist communist. But he was also a scientist, geographer and philosopher, a man who, having grown up on his aristocratic father's extensive country estate in Russia, had a deep understanding of and love for animals (wild and... Read more

James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

Narrated by: James Acaster

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.

When James quit all forms of social media in 2019 he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never ending popularity contest with only one possible winner (f*cking... Read more

The Idea Factory

By: Jon Gertner

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1,200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell... Read more

Traction

By: Gino Wickman

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you?All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical.The... Read more

Building

By: Mark Ellison

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces.

For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen, specializing in rarefied, lavish, and challenging... Read more

Feminist Fight Club

By: Jessica Bennett

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Jessica Bennett

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would... Read more

Moneyland

By: Oliver Bullough

Narrated by: Oliver Bullough

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John le Carré, author of A Legacy of Spies

This program is... Read more

The Anxious Achiever

By: Morra Aarons-Mele

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the world. But in our workplaces, anxiety has been a hidden problem—there in plain sight but ignored. Until now.



The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. As leadership expert and self-proclaimed anxious achiever Morra Aarons-Mele argues, anxiety... Read more

The Fred Factor

By: Mark Sanborn

Narrated by: Mark Sanborn

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Seize the chance to be extraordinary.

Who has made the biggest difference in your life? Whose words and actions have uplifted and motivated you to excel? Chances are it was someone like Fred the Postman -- so outstanding in his service that Mark Sanborn realized this mail carrier could be an example for any person wanting to be... Read more

Becoming Trader Joe

By: Joe Coulombe

Narrated by: Mark Smeby

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love--and a work environment that your employees love being a part of--using this blueprint from Trader Joe’s visionary founder, Joe Coulombe.Infuse your organization with a distinct personality and culture that draws customers in a way that simply competing on price cannot.Joe Coulombe... Read more

She-Wolves

By: Paulina Bren

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In development with Mark Gordon Pictures



The propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street.



First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the "smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas,... Read more

Requiem for the American Dream

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad—much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better …"—from Requiem for the American DreamIn his first major book on the subject of income... Read more

Globalists

By: Quinn Slobodian

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global... Read more

You Don't Look Your Age...and Other Fairy Tales

By: Sheila Nevins

Narrated by: Lena Dunham, Meryl Streep, Katie Couric, RuPaul...

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant audiobook for any woman who wishes they had someone who would say to them, “This happened to me, learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don’t get smarter as you get older, you get braver.”

This program is read by the author and a full cast: Cynthia Adler, Alan Alda, Bob Balaban, Christine... Read more

The Charisma Myth

By: Olivia Fox Cabane

Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What if charisma could be taught?

For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial.

What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge,... Read more