Business audiobooks

How to Kill a Unicorn

By: Mark Payne

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, innovation is seen by business leaders and the media as the key to growth and success-a burning issue in every company, from startups to the Fortune 500. In this space, Fahrenheit 212 (dubbed "The Epicenter of Innovation" by Esquire) is viewed as a high-performance innovation SWAT team, able to solve the most complex, mission-critical... Read more

Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales

By: Susan Ershler & John Waechter

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Two experts who have summited the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents—and scaled the highest peaks in corporate sales and business—examine what it takes to achieve success.In making the grueling journey to the top of Mount Everest, Susan Ershler and John Waechter joined the elite group of climbers who had conquered the Seven... Read more

Uncontainable

By: Kip Tindell

Narrated by: Kip Tindell

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Kip Tindell, the founder and CEO of The Container Store, reveals the seven secrets to keeping both customers AND employees happy and all fully engaged.

"You're going to sell what? Empty Boxes?"

Back in 1978, Kip Tindell (Chairman & CEO of The Container Store) and his partners had the vision that people were eager to find solutions to save both... Read more

Glass Jaw

By: Eric Dezenhall

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant -- Glass Jaw is an Art of War guide to modern crisis management.

In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw," and so it is these days with targets of controversy. Down the rabbit hole of scandal, the weak... Read more

Sacred Success

By: Barbara Stanny

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In her work with countless powerful, successful women over the last twenty years, bestselling author and financial educator Barbara Stanny found that most women's problems with money have little to do with money itself, but rather their fear of or ambivalence toward power. Instead of pushing women to pursue financial success in the traditional... Read more

Tisch 17 is'n Arsch!

By: Irmin Burdekat

Narrated by: Irmin Burdekat

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Einer der erfolgreichsten Gastwirte Deutschlands hat (mal wieder) ein Buch geschrieben - und als Hörbuch vorgelesen: Irmin Burdekat erzählt über sein Leben an der Gäste-Front. Ob als Hotelpage, Hotelier auf einer Insel oder Chef einer Autobahnraststätte, als Livemusikkneipier oder nationaler Systemgastronomie-Guru (»Alex«, »Café & Bar... Read more

Traumjob durch Kleinigkeiten

By: Thomas Schlayer

Narrated by: Ralph Wagner & Claudia Finger-Erben

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Was unterscheidet einen üblichen Job von einem echten Traumjob? Wie finde ich heraus, was ich wirklich will? Und wie kann ich mich so bewerben, dass ich das Auswahlverfahren auch gewinne? Rede-Denk-Experte Thomas Schlayer bietet mit diesem Hörbuch einen universellen Leitfaden für Ihre effektive Jobsuche! In Kooperation mit "monster.de" hören... Read more

Crazy Is a Compliment

By: Linda Rottenberg

Narrated by: Linda Rottenberg

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of both The Lean Startup and Lean In, a manifesto about taking smart risks in pursuit of big dreams

Linda Rottenberg has spent her career helping innovators think big. “If people aren’t calling you crazy, you aren’t thinking big enough,” she says. These days taking chances isn’t just for young college dropouts in hoodies. Whether... Read more

Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does

By: Susan Fowler

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Top leadership researcher, consultant, and coach Susan Fowler says stop trying to motivate people! It’s frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn’t work. You can’t motivate people—they are already motivated but generally in superficial and short-term ways. In this book, Fowler builds upon the latest scientific research on the nature of... Read more

Rise to the Top

By: Stacey Hawley

Narrated by: Lyndsay Vitale

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is a must-read for women who are interested in navigating the world of compensation. Based on her work with hundreds of companies, Hawley provides a clear, concise guide on how to optimize the perception of [your] worth to a company and negotiate for appropriate compensation. Rise to the Top is a highly readable and helpful guide for women... Read more

The Shifts and the Shocks

By: Martin Wolf

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economy and its trajectory

There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007–8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but... Read more

The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own

By: Daniel R. Solin

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed and bestselling author Dan Solin shows you how to create a SuperSmart Portfolio that follows the same strategies used by the most sophisticated investment advisers in the world—but previously unavailable to most do-it-yourself investors. Providing the specific information and guidance lacking in most investment guides, Solin leaves... Read more

Hello, My Name is Awesome

By: Alexandra Watkins

Narrated by: Gina Sorell

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Every year, 6 million companies and more than 100,000 products are launched. They all need an awesome name, but many (such as Xobni, Svbtle, and Doostang) look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game. In this entertaining and engaging book, ace naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains how anyone—even noncreative types—can create... Read more

Mindfulness at Work

By: Stephen McKenzie

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mindfulness isn't anything that we think; it's what we don't think. Mindfulness isn't something that other people do; it's something that we all do. Mindfulness is an ancient, life-enhancing, healing technique that can help us remember our natural state of happiness and health, even if we think we are too modern and too busy to prioritize what's... Read more

The Social Leader

By: Frank Guglielmo & Sudhanshu Palsule

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Technology, global economics, and demographics are colluding to create workspaces that thrive on communities rather than hierarchies. Our industrial paradigm with its roots in the military is swiftly being replaced by a paradigm based on networks that are held together by passion and social connections, and fueled by instantaneous interactions... Read more

Growth Hacker Marketing

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A new generation of megabrands like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Twitter haven’t spent a dime on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead, they rely on a new strategy—growth hacking—to reach many more people despite modest marketing budgets. Growth hackers have thrown out the old playbook and replaced... Read more

Mighty Midsized Companies

By: Robert Sher

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Midsized companies are often overlooked by Wall Street and mainstream media outlets, though they are an integral part of national economics. Thus it’s important for national economic success to have a thriving midsized company sector. But that is not easy to do, largely because the factors that throttle growth of midsized companies can be quite... Read more

Never Be Closing

By: Tim Hurson & Tim Dunne

Narrated by: Tim Hurson & Tim Dunne

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows that the first rule of sales is “always be closing.” But what if the less time you spend trying to close, the more time you can devote to helping people solve problems and seize opportunities? And what if following the new rule of sales, “always be useful,” results in more business?

If you sell and if you aim to sell better, you... Read more

The Elements of Resume Style

By: Scott Bennett

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It's amazing the misinformation found in most resume books! Scott Bennett has hired hundreds of people in a variety of industries, and he knows firsthand what kind of resume sparks an employer's interest--and which ones fail. In "The Elements of Resume Style," he warns against popular "tricks" that tend to backfire--and instead shows readers how... Read more

The Six Secrets of Raising Capital

By: Bill Fisher

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Bill Fisher’s master-class seminars—featured at The World Bank, The University of California, and Draper University—this book offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts that most entrepreneurs never tap into until it is too late. Fisher organizes the capital-raising process into six clear steps, and then breaks through the myths... Read more

Zero to one

By: Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir leben in einer technologischen Sackgasse. Zwar suggeriert die Globalisierung technischen Fortschritt, doch das vermeintlich Neue, sind vor allem Kopien des Bestehenden. Thiel, Peter, Silicon-Valley-Insider und in der Wirtschaftscommunity bestens bekannter Innovationstreiber ist überzeugt: Globalisierung ist kein Fortschritt, Konkurrenz ist... Read more

NLP:The Essential Handbook for Business

By: Jeremy Lazarus

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business is a straight-talking, highly practical guide to using NLP to significantly improve your results at work. Whether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, you can learn proven NLP techniques that will boost your career as well as the performance of colleagues... Read more

Live It!

By: Jairek Robbins

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Every person you meet is either a warning or an example. Which are you?Jairek Robbins, decorated performance coach and lifestyle entrepreneur, guides you through his proven, step-by-step process for filling the gap between where you are today and where you want to be. In reassuring and easy-to-understand language, Robbins helps you build a... Read more

Scrum

By: Jeff Sutherland & J.J. Sutherland

Narrated by: J.J. Sutherland

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The revolutionary “Red Book” that helped a generation work smarter, better, and faster—now expanded and updated with new stories, new ideas, and new methods to radically improve the way you and your company deliver results

If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, the Scrum framework is one of the reasons why. Productivity... Read more