Business audiobooks

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe

By: Chris Taylor

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. More than forty years and $37 billion later, Star Wars–related products outnumber human beings, a stormtrooper army spans the globe, and “Jediism” has become a religion in its own right. Lucas’s creation has grown into far more than a... Read more

Seven Bad Ideas

By: Jeff Madrick

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories - why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve them. Jeff Madrick, a former columnist for The New York Times, is an economics columnist for Harper's, a regular contributor to The New... Read more

Apple iPhone Marketing Case Analysis

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Nathan Yoder

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where audio compact disk players are considered relics, could the iPhone be next in line for the antique treatment? Amidst fierce competition, it's crucial to dissect Apple's marketing prowess and acknowledge its shortcomings. This insightful case analysis, crafted for a marketing class, delves into product classification and offers a... Read more

7 Tenets of Taxi Terry

By: Scott McKain

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Defeat your company's greatest enemy: employee disengagement



7 Tenets of Taxi Terry outlines seven essential keys to engagement that any one at any job can use to excel. McKain threads them all together with the story of Taxi Terry, a cab driver in Jacksonville, FL, who gave him the best customer service experience of his life. Scott empowers you... Read more

The Upside of Your Dark Side

By: Todd Kashdan & Robert Biswas-Diener

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Upside of Your Dark Side, two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness, kindness, and positivity can take us far, they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions like anger, anxiety, or doubt might be uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly... Read more

A Path Appears

By: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Narrated by: Olivia Wilde

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.

In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and... Read more

How Google Works

By: Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg

Narrated by: Holter Graham & Jonathan Rosenberg

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this insider’s look into the world’s biggest tech company, former CEO and SVP of Google share how they helped engineer a new strategy and philosophy to help them thrive—a perfect book for seasoned business employees and the tech curious.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields.... Read more

You're Supposed to Be Wealthy

By: Dr. Creflo Dollar

Narrated by: Vince Bailey

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When it comes to going to the next level in life, the area of finances is one in which God desires to increase and expand us to greater levels. Wealth and riches are the inheritance of the believer; however we must release our faith in God's ability to increase us more and more, even to the point of bringing generational wealth into our lives.... Read more

Silicon Valley

By: Christoph Keese

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Spinner, Gründer und Erfinder - Ein Bericht zwischen Panikmache und Euphorie Faszinierend und zum Fürchten zugleich. Wer ins Silicon Valley kommt, fühlt sich manisch-depressiv. Manisch, weil der Ort buchstäblich vibriert vor Erfolg, Erfindergeist, Enthusiasmus und fiebriger Schnelligkeit. Depressiv, weil sofort klar ist, verglichen mit dem... Read more

A Winner's Guide to Negotiating

By: Molly Fletcher

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The strategic guide to getting the most out of every negotiation from "the female Jerry Maguire"In a good negotiation, everybody walks away a winner. Drawing on her nearly two decades of experience negotiating multimillion-dollar agreements with the most savvy people in sports, Molly Fletcher provides the strategies and tactics business... Read more

26 Instant Marketing Ideas To Build Your Network Marketing Business

By: Tom "Big Al" Schreiter

Narrated by: Dan Culhane

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you looking for prospects for your MLM, network marketing, or any business?Would you like a presentation that rises way above the competition?Want to know what really motivates prospects to act?These marketing strategies and fascinating case studies and stories are taken from Tom "Big Al" Schreiter's 40+ years experience in network... Read more

Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast

By: Barbara Spurrier, Nicholas LaRusso & Gianrico F...

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Only Innovation Guide You Will Ever Need--from the Award-Winning Minds at Mayo Clinic

A lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly--or as famously--as the legendary Mayo Clinic.

Introducing Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast, the first innovation guide... Read more

What's Best Next

By: Matt Perman

Narrated by: Matt Perman

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do.There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information... Read more

This Changes Everything

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical... Read more

The Leap

By: Ulrich Boser

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

We’re not supposed to trust others. Look at the headlines. Read the blogs. Study the survey data. It seems that everyone is wary, that everyone is just looking out for themselves. But a sense of social trust and togetherness can be restored.In The Leap, best-selling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our... Read more

The 7 Immutable Laws of Fast Wealth Building

By: Omar Johnson

Narrated by: David Golightly

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people aspire to build wealth but a great deal of them will fall short of this much desired goal. In most cases, it’s not because of a lack of drive or ambition but simply because people lack the true knowledge of not only how to build wealth but how to build it fast. They are constantly bombarded by the senseless propaganda spread by the... Read more

Zero to One

By: Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Narrated by: Blake Masters

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta

“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to... Read more

A World Gone Social

By: Mark S. Babbitt & Ted Coine

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Just like the meteor that likely precipitated the end of the dinosaurs, social media is having a monumental impact on the world's economy; a change so dramatic that it has created a new business era. Welcome... to the Social Age.

What does the Social Age mean for your business? Containing stories, analysis of real-world scenarios, and... Read more

The Decline and Fall of IBM

By: Robert X. Cringely

Narrated by: Robert X. Cringely

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

IBM is in serious trouble. Big Blue, as the company is known, tends to rely on magical thinking for its success, but that magic ran out a long time ago. The trouble began back in the 1990s and IBM had to hire, for the first time, an outside CEO. Lou Gerstner saved the day, pushing IBM into services with spectacular results, but not without... Read more

Duct Tape Selling

By: John Jantsch

Narrated by: John Jantsch

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of the areas that salespeople struggle with these days have long been the domain of marketers, according to bestselling author John Jantsch. The traditional business model dictates that marketers own the message while sellers own the relationships. But now, Jantsch flips the usual sales approach on its head.

It’s no longer enough to view a... Read more

The End of Normal

By: James K. Galbraith

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe-and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the... Read more

The Small Big

By: Robert B. Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein & Steve J...

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone—your boss, a co-worker, a customer, your spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome?
In The Small Big, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion... Read more

Mind Gym

By: Sebastian Bailey & Octavius Black

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The international bestseller that will help you transform your personal and professional life by changing the way you think.Today, the pressure to achieve is intense. To be at our best, we need our minds working at peak potential. But unless you train it, your mind stays on autopilot, stuck in unhealthy thought patterns that lead to... Read more

Smartcuts

By: Shane Snow

Narrated by: Shane Snow & Erik Bergmann

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow (Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short time.How do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months? How did Alexander the Great, YouTube tycoon Michelle Phan, and Tonight Show host... Read more