Business audiobooks

Impact Players

By: Liz Wiseman

Narrated by: Liz Wiseman

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions?In every organization there are Impact Players—those indispensable colleagues who can be counted on in critical situations and who consistently receive high-profile assignments and new opportunities. Whether they are on center stage or behind the... Read more

Ours Was the Shining Future

By: David Leonhardt

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist behind The New York Times's “The Morning” newsletter.

“With the even-handed incisiveness that has made him one of the country’s most-respected voices on economics, David Leonhardt illuminates the... Read more

Console Wars

By: Blake J. Harris

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.In 1990, Nintendo had a... Read more

People Buy You

By: Jeb Blount

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Far too many of todays books on sales and selling deal with the mechanics of selling and pay little or no attention to the emotional-side of selling; however, when all things are equal (and in todays competitive world they almost always are) people buy you--the salesperson. Designed to connect sellers to buyers, People Buy You makes it... Read more

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

NonViolent Communication

By: Jeremy Huttenberg

Narrated by: Lucas Modrall

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have perceived the importance of the way we relate to each other and you want to help yourself to grow-up in these aspects, then Non-Violent Communication could be for you.In the idea of avoiding conflict, creating solid relationships that allow achieving a better connection with people, you MUST Learn Non-Violent Communication (NVC): a... Read more

Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K Rosa

Narrated by: Lily Lefkow

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heteronormative, we must have babies and buy a... Read more

Power and Progress

By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world.

Throughout history, technological change — whether it... Read more

The Contrarian

By: Max Chafkin

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book 

A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics
 
“Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important... Read more

Great by Choice

By: Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen

Narrated by: Jim Collins

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen... Read more

Talent is Overrated

By: Geoff Colvin

Narrated by: Geoff Colvin

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal

Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they’re passionate about. Now this classic has been updated and revised with new research and takeaways to help... Read more

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Neoliberalism—the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action—has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the... Read more

Our Iceberg Is Melting

By: John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world.
 
Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard Business School’s John Kotter, it can... Read more

Make Time

By: Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky

Narrated by: Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint comes “a unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day” (Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits).

“If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

Nobody ever looked at an empty... Read more

The Cold Start Problem

By: Andrew Chen

Narrated by: Andrew Chen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded ""cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users.Although software has become... Read more

Work Won't Love You Back

By: Sarah Jaffe

Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

By: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of... Read more

Floating Coast

By: Bathsheba Demuth

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in... Read more

The Diary of a CEO

By: Steven Bartlett

Narrated by: Steven Bartlett

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepreneurs and the host of the No. 1 podcast The Diary of a CEO

"This is a must-read for anyone dreaming of doing something audacious." Jay Shetty

"Valuable lessons about the importance of following a different and unconventional path to power.” Robert... Read more

Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason

By: David Harvey

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century: his... Read more

Fooled by Randomness

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.

Now in a... Read more

More than a Glitch

By: Meredith Broussard

Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? Meredith Broussard demonstrates in More Than a Glitch how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held... Read more

The Fun Habit

By: Mike Rucker

Narrated by: Mike Rucker

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to make having fun a habitual and authentic part of your daily life with “this well-researched and impressive guide” (BookPage).

Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes?

There is an easy fix: fun is an action you can... Read more

Who Believed in You?

By: David McCormick & Dina Powell McCormick

Narrated by: David McCormick, Dina Powell McCormick, Paige M...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Unleash the power of transformative mentorship. You can change somebody’s life—and that can change the world.During the pandemic, Dina Powell McCormick and David McCormick watched as many Americans—including their six teenage daughters—were left feeling devoid of human connection and without the advice and... Read more