Business audiobooks

Big Bang Disruption

By: Larry Downes & Paul Nunes

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It used to take years or even decades for disruptive innovations to dethrone dominant products and services. But now any business can be devastated virtually overnight by something better and cheaper. How can executives protect themselves and harness the power of Big Bang Disruption? Just a few years ago, drivers happily spent more than $200 for... Read more

Is Academia Suffering From "Adjunctivitis"?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of this growing employment trend at colleges and universities. Read more

Scaling Up Excellence

By: Robert I. Sutton & Huggy Rao

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

"The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times

"One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and Mail

Bestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: how to scale up farther, faster,... Read more

The Triple Package

By: Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are black and Hispanic subgroups in the United States far... Read more

Mindless

By: Simon Head

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)—the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of... Read more

The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking

By: Sims Wyeth

Narrated by: Sims Wyeth

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short and insightful pointers on the power, potential, and practice of public speaking.

Among the many pieces of expert advice in The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking is this nugget: "To capture attention, define a problem that keeps listeners up at night." Wyeth may as well be talking about the audiobook itself—for... Read more

The Innovative Sale

By: Mark Donnolo

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When it comes to strategies, salespeople usually veer toward one of two extremes: operating analytically ...or by the seat of their pants. In this groundbreaking book on sales creativity, listeners will learn how to integrate the right-brain aptitude for innovation with the left-brain affinity for logic and process. The result is a fresh,... Read more

Just Run it!

By: Dick Cross

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The growth engine of the global economy is no longer through mega-production and huge conglomerates, but rather through the proliferation of smaller enterprises. These smaller businesses often struggle. In America alone, tens of thousands of businesses crop up each year. Unfortunately, few will succeed, though not due to a lack of ingenuity,... Read more

Dare, Dream, Do

By: Whitney Johnson

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Whitney Johnson, popular Harvard Business Review blogger, has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. Her belief is that we can each achieve greater happiness when focusing both on our dreams and on other people in our lives. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching women, in particular, a three-step model... Read more

EGO vs. EQ

By: Jen Shirkani

Narrated by: Jen Shirkani

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ego vs EQ, Jen Shirkani shares strategies for using emotional intelligence (EQ) as a primary prevention tool to avoid career derailment. The executive leadership failure rate is high: two in five CEO’s fail in the first 18 months on the job and two thirds of business’ will disappear just a decade after founding. This book teaches you how to... Read more

Conversational Intelligence

By: Judith E. Glaser

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It’s not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming... Read more

The Upside of Down

By: Charles Kenny

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world’s only superpower – so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America’s well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?

In The Upside of Down,... Read more

The Business of Belief

By: Tom Asacker

Narrated by: Tom Asacker

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, Tom Asacker, author of Sandbox Wisdom and A Clear Eye for Branding, pulls back the curtain on the workings of the mind and reveals the hidden logic to motivating behavior, both in ourselves and in others.

Whether you are launching a new brand or marketing campaign, selling products and services,... Read more

Life After Law

By: Liz Brown

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by Harvard-trained ex-law firm partner Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, Life AfterLaw shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how... Read more

Game-Changer

By: David McAdams

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & David McAdams

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals.

“The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic situation. Even seemingly certain defeat can be turned into... Read more

Reset

By: Dwain Schenck

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re out of work, how do you keep your head in the game while searching for a new job? According to Dwain Schenck, a firsthand navigator through the world of unemployment, you make smart decisions, maintain confidence, and avoid being dragged down emotionally. Not just another career or self-help book, Reset is an absorbing story about... Read more

Fail Fast, Fail Often

By: Ryan Babineaux & John Krumboltz

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, psychologists, career counselors, and creators of the popular Stanford University course “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” have come to a compelling conclusion: happy and successful people tend to spend less time planning and more time acting. They get out into the world, try new things, and make mistakes, and in doing... Read more

Who Kidnapped Excellence?

By: Harry Paul, John Britt & Ed Jent

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Most companies talk about excellence, but what does excellence really mean? What specific attitudes and practices lead to excellence? Drawing on years of study and decades of experience, authors Harry Paul, John Britt, and Ed Jent have zeroed in on five core qualities of excellence. In this entertaining and enlightening book, they tell how to... Read more

Mogul, Mom, & Maid

By: Liz O'Donnell

Narrated by: Susan Iannucci

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The state of working women has been declared, debunked and debated since the days of Rosie the Riveter. The headlines, and the statistics behind them, however, don’t tell the whole story. The truth is, many women today are breadwinners; and these breadwinners are struggling. They are caught in a perfect storm of male-dominated culture at work,... Read more

The Art of Social Selling

By: Shannon Belew

Narrated by: Judy Hoctor

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest are changing the way consumers make purchasing decisions . . . and tapping into these online communities has become a necessary part of any integrated sales strategy. Citing enlightening research and real-world examples, this smart, practical guide presents readers with a... Read more

The Leader's Checklist Expanded Edition

By: Michael Useem

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Named to The Washington Post’s 2011 List of Best Leadership Books

In this illuminating expanded edition of the bestselling Leader’s Checklist, world-renowned leadership expert Michael Useem deepens his examination of 15 mission-critical principles for leaders

Based on the lessons from astonishing stories, solid research, and years of leadership... Read more

Leaders Open Doors

By: Bill Treasurer

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business. In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by distilling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others. Using personal stories and anecdotes, Treasurer presents the idea of open-door leadership–that... Read more

The Joy Strategy

By: Allison Rimm

Narrated by: Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Your life is serious business, but who says you can’t find joy along the way? As a person with unique gifts to offer, it is your responsibility to use your talents wisely and it is your right to enjoy yourself while doing so. Just as a successful business requires a mission and a plan, so does a fulfilling life. In The Joy of Strategy, Allison... Read more

The Upside of Down

By: Charles Kenny

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower - so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?



In The Upside of... Read more