Business audiobooks

CIO Business Skills

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to be a successful CIO? Studies have shown that the average CIO only holds on to the job for roughly 4 years – what can you do to have a longer career? It turns out that the answer to this question is simple: you need to find ways to work with the rest of the business.

What You'll Find Inside: DO WE REALLY NEED CIOS ANY... Read more

How a Real Estate Agent Can Prepare for a Successful Negotiation

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It turns out that most negotiations are over even before they begin. The agent that has spent the most time planning for the negotiation, doing their homework, and collecting the data that they'll need is the one that's going to walk away from the table with the best deal and a sense of winning. Wouldn't you want that person to be you?

What... Read more

What CIOs Need to Know in Order to Successfully Manage an IT Department

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At the heart of being a CIO is the responsibility to manage an entire department of technical professionals. It is your job to provide an overall direction for the department to move in and when problems arise, and they always do, you are going to have to work with your staff in order to create solutions. What You'll Find Inside: CIO LESSONS... Read more

Your Success as a CIO Depends On How Well You Communicate

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When we think about what it takes to be a successful CIO, there are a lot of things that probably come to mind. Staying on top of changing technology, anticipating security issues, and preparing the IT department for the company's growth. However, it turns out that there is something that is far more important than any of these things to a CIO's... Read more

Creating Speeches That Work

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's face it, creating a speech is hard work. However, as long as we are going to go to the effort of creating a speech, it sure seems like we should do a good job of it. Now the difficult part comes: just exactly how does one go about creating a speech that works?

What You'll Find Inside: SIZE MATTERS – SHAPING YOUR SPEECH TO MATCH YOUR... Read more

Secrets to Planning the Perfect Speech for an Actor

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter if the speech that you'll be expected to give is part of a role that you'll be playing or if it is for some event outside of a production, giving a good speech can be a real challenge. The good news is that as an actor, you have the skills that it's going to take to do this well. The same skills that you use to bring a role to life can... Read more

How a Paralegal Can Prepare for a Successful Negotiation

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It turns out that most negotiations are over even before they begin. The legal team that has spent the most time planning for the negotiation, doing their homework, and collecting the data that they'll need is the one that's going to walk away from the table with the best deal. Wouldn't you want that legal team to be your team?

What You'll Find... Read more

Own the Zone

By: Allan Colman

Narrated by: Chaz Allen

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to dominate the competition? Do you want to grow more business? Do you need to learn how to "close"? Do you have a sales formula that works for you?Own the Zone is a must-read for business leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs interested in growing their businesses. Unlike many sales books written for the nonprofessional, this... Read more

Customer Lessons for Product Managers

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the end, it all comes down to what your customer wants to tell you about your product. However, how many of us have been taught how to listen to our customers?

What You'll Find Inside: LET’S GO VISIT THE CUSTOMER, PRODUCT MANAGER ARE ANGRY CUSTOMERS A PRODUCT MANAGER’S BEST FRIEND? CUSTOMER LED NEW PRODUCT DESIGN: NOTES FROM THE FIELD YOUR... Read more

Secrets to Planning the Perfect Speech for Negotiators

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The art of negotiation is all about using words to communicate what you want to other parties. Much of what we do is done at tables with both sides working closely to identify and resolve issues. However, in order to prepare for these face-to-face sessions, we often have to set the stage and let the other side know where we stand on an issue.... Read more

Product Manager Product Success

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Jim Anderson explores what product managers have to do in order to make their products a success. Dr. Anderson uses real-world examples from Microsoft, Dell, and Toyota to show product managers both what works and what doesn't work when it comes to capturing your customer's imagination (and their wallets).

What You'll Find Inside: FORGET... Read more

Save Yourself, Save Your Job – How to Manage Your IT Career

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The problem that lot of us IT managers run into is that we have a tendency to get all caught up in trying to manage the issues that are before us. What this means is that we tend to neglect the so-called "big picture" and this is a problem because that's where our IT manager career lives…

What You'll Find Inside: HOW TO PROTECT YOUR IT CAREER... Read more

Secrets of Managing Budgets

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An IT manager's budget controls what he or she and their team are going to be able to accomplish this year. No, creating a budget may not be the most enjoyable thing that you'll be called on to do, but it just might be the most important. The challenge that a lot of IT managers have when it comes to creating a good budget is that it requires... Read more

How to Organize a Successful Speech

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The goal of any speaker is that when they give their speech their audience hangs on their every word. In order to make this happen, we need to find ways to organize our speech so that we can both capture and hold our audience's attention from start to finish.

What You'll Find Inside: BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK SPEAKING: HOW TO YOU CAN... Read more

Secrets to Organizing a Speech for Maximum Impact

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The goal of any speaker is that when they give their speech their audience hangs on their every word. In order to make this happen, we need to find ways to organize our speech so that we can both capture and hold our audience's attention from start to finish. What You'll Find Inside: BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK SPEAKING: HOW TO YOU CAN... Read more

It's Never Too Late And You're Never Too Old

By: Vic Johnson

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

~ George Eliot, 19th Century English novelist

One of the biggest hurdles people over 50 have to overcome is the mindset about their age. There’s an old cliché of “age ain’t nothin’ but a number.” But as we all know, getting older does have certain obstacles such as dwindling health, limited... Read more

Secrets to Planning the Perfect Speech

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Jim Anderson explores what public speakers have to do in order to deliver great speeches. Dr. Anderson uses real-world examples of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to capturing your audience's imagination.

What You'll Find Inside: “ONCE UPON A TIME…” – THE ROLE OF STORYTELLING IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION HOW TO MAKE A TECHNICAL... Read more

How Product Managers Can Grow Their Career

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

I happen to think that being a product manager is one of the best jobs out there. I find it to be very satisfying because I'm in charge of the success of a product.

If I do the right things, then my product will be selected by a large number of customers and it will solve their problems. If I don’t do my job right, my company will probably... Read more

Secrets to Planning the Perfect Speech for an Admissions Counselor

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The traditional view of what an Admissions Counselor does views us as people who just sit behind a desk opening college applications and then stamping them "admitted" or "rejected". As you know, there is really a lot more to this job. A key part of what we do is to tell the outside world about our college. What this means is that we have to go... Read more

Secrets to Planning the Perfect Speech for Arbitrators, Mediators and Conciliators

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In order to settle a dispute, Arbitrators, Mediators and Conciliators obviously have to know how to talk. However, as part of their job they are often called on to give speeches. These speeches can be to update interested parties on the status of discussions, it can be to peers to share best practices, etc. This type of talking is much different... Read more

CIO Secrets for Growing Innovation

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

So just exactly what is innovation? It turns out that innovation is doing something new. It can be a new method, a new idea, or even a new product. In the world of IT, we have the ability to solve just about any problem. However, how we go about solving problems can become outdated quickly. What we need to do as CIOs is to find out how to bring... Read more

Kill The Company

By: Lisa Bodell

Narrated by: Margie Lenhart

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ever-changing world of business, we've arrived at a point where process has trumped culture, where the race toward efficiency has made us complacent and unable to reach our potential. Stuck in the land of status quo, we've forgotten how to think. And the very structures put in place to help businesses grow are now holding them back. It's... Read more

Product Management Secrets

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The job of a product manager is made even more difficult by the simple fact that it really does not come with any clear instructions on how to do it correctly. As product managers we are constantly searching for ways to become better. What You'll Find Inside: 9 WAYS TO TO BECOME AN INFORMATION PRODUCT MANAGER WHY PRODUCT MANAGERS NEED TO KNOW... Read more

Secrets to Planning the Perfect Speech for Contractor Managers

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You would think that the job of managing outsourced work would not require the person doing it to give speeches. However, if you thought this, then you'd be wrong. It turns out that when a company is willing to give up control over how work is performed by bringing in contractors, the relationship between the company and both the contractors and... Read more