Business audiobooks

The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead

By: Charles Murray

Narrated by: Charles Murray

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, a gently curmudgeonly but invaluable guide to the dos and don'ts of the workplaceBestselling social historian Charles Murray has written a delightfully fussy—and entertaining—book on the hidden rules of the road in the workplace—and in life—from the standpoint of an admonishing, but... Read more

The 25 Sales Skills

By: Stephan Schiffman

Narrated by: Stephan Schiffman

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Master the skills you can’t learn in a classroomYou can break into today’s cutting-edge sales force—and become a leader. All it takes is learning Stephan Schiffman’s essential skills. Honed to perfection over decades of experience, his techniques will make you a top sales performer.From the man who’s trained more than a half-million salespeople,... Read more

Time Management

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

More than any other practice in your career, your ability to manage time will determine your success or failure. It’s a simple equation. The better you use your time, the more you will accomplish, and the greater your rewards will be.

This exceptional guide reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more... Read more

Resource Revolution

By: Stefan Heck & Matt Rogers

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What do shale gas, Elon Musk’s Tesla, and the global apparel chain Zara share in common? In Resource Revolution, management experts Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers describe how each in its own way exemplifies a resource revolution—a use of natural resources so effective it defies conventional wisdom and enables breakthrough performance where others... Read more

When Buyers Say No

By: Tom Hopkins & Ben Katt

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick in closing is in taking a more creative and circular... Read more

WTF?: What's the Future of Business?

By: Brian Solis

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Rethink your business model to incorporate the power of "user" experiences

What’s the Future of Business? will galvanize a new movement that aligns the tenets of user experience with the vision of innovative leadership to improve business performance, engagement, and relationships for a new generation of consumerism. It provides an overview of... Read more

Pitch Perfect

By: Bill McGowan

Narrated by: Bill McGowan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan—coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch perfect communication.  He is also a trusted advisor in the... Read more

Moment Maker

By: Carlos Whittaker

Narrated by: Carlos Whittaker

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is made of moments. What are you doing to make the most of them? In Moment Maker, Carlos Whittaker shows you how to make each moment count, so those moments add up to a life rich with meaning, deeply satisfying, and full of purpose.Every day we have an opportunity to make our lives meaningful, to make them matter. Yet, for so many of us, we... Read more

The Next Gen Leader

By: Robert C. McMillan

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

While today's global economy is experiencing a significant cycle of outsourcing across industries, leadership cannot be outsourced; it must be organically transformed. The Next Gen Leader will show you how to discard outworn traditions and become the next-generation leader you were born to be! It is a system designed to help you maximize... Read more

Management in stürmischen Zeiten

By: Oliver Driesen

Narrated by: Oliver Driesen

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Märklin, Escada, Schiesser, Arcandor - die Reihe insolventer Firmen wird täglich länger und damit auch die Liste der Versäumnisse: Ausruhen auf alten Lorbeeren, verpasstes Change Management, strategische Versäumnisse bei Marktanalyse und Produkteinführung, Unstimmigkeiten in der Führung. Die Strategie kommt nicht auf den Prüfstand, Leitbilder... Read more

A Team of Leaders

By: Stewart Liff & Paul Gustavson

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Workplace teams are supposed to harness employees' talents to tackle challenges. But the reality often falls short...

Now imagine having a team where everyone steps up and performs all of the leadership tasks. Imagine a team that is constantly sharing knowledge and pushing the envelope--one that does long term planning and produces outstanding... Read more

The Power of Paradox

By: Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Should your company pursue global expansion or mine local opportunities?
Take risks to grow dramatically or protect your current stability?
Seek to maximize sales or the bottom line?

We're so often faced with apparent paradoxes: continuity and change, conservatism and progressiveness, predictability and chaos. In business, inherent tensions are... Read more

The Evolution a Corporate Idealist

By: Christine Bader

Narrated by: Christine Bader & Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t always succeed.

Christine Bader was one of... Read more

The Hiltons

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hiltons is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family.

Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with emotional detachment, failed marriages, and conflicted... Read more

The Good Struggle

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Leadership is struggle

The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.

Leaders today are surrounded by what Badaracco calls “the new... Read more

Tilt

By: Niraj Dawar

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Shift your strategy downstream.

Why do your customers buy from you rather than from your competitors? If you think the answer is your superior products, think again.

Products are important, of course. For decades, businesses sought competitive advantage almost exclusively in activities related to new product creation. They won by building bigger... Read more

Things a Little Bird Told Me

By: Biz Stone

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.

Things a Little Bird Told Me

From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as... Read more

The Meat Racket

By: Christopher Leonard

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country's biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a... Read more

When Buyers Say No

By: Tom Hopkins & Ben Katt

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick in closing is in taking a more creative and circular... Read more

Focal Point

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The true secret of high achievers is that they know how to find their focal point, the one thing they should do, at any given moment to get the best possible results in each area of their lives. In "Focal Point", Tracy brings together the very best ideas on personal management into a simple, easy-to-use plan. "Focal Point" shows Listeners how to... Read more

The Time Trap 4th Edition

By: Alec Mackenzie & Pat Nickerson

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can't say no? Reluctant to delegate? Information overload?

More and more people today are finding their time clogged up with endless activities and responsibilities, and their work lives spinning out of control. No matter how hard they try to get things done...there's never enough time!

Now practical, realistic solutions to the problem are... Read more

Leadership

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people are natural-born leaders. So what is it that transforms a person into the kind of individual who inspires others to follow?

Success expert Brian Tracy has helped thousands of people become exceptional leaders and now, in this concise and powerful audiobook, he reveals how you can:

• Inspire trust and loyalty

• Instill a sense of purpose... Read more

The Power of Discipline

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authorities on development of human potential. He speaks to over 250,000 people a year, and is also a best-selling author who has written 25 books. He has written this audiobook on what he calls the #1 key to success: Self-discipline. The Power of Discipline is sure to become a classic on this all... Read more

Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

By: Micah Solomon & Leonardo Inghilleri

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Filled with treasure and big ideas, this book will help you become exceptional." - SETH GODIN

In a tight market, your most powerful growth engine and your best protection from competitive inroads is this: put every thing you can into cultivating true customer loyalty. Loyal customers are less sensitive to price competition, more forgiving of... Read more