Business audiobooks

Brilliant Mistakes

By: Paul J.H. Schoemaker

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Named #1 Best Business Book of 2011, by Patriot-News–PennLive.com

If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake.

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake... Read more

Die Empty

By: Todd Henry

Narrated by: Todd Henry

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Embrace the importance of now, and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions...The cost of inaction is vast. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty."


Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow to do our... Read more

The Age of Oversupply

By: Daniel Alpert

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Why Western capitalism is broken and how the U.S. can recover its global economic leadership status



The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How did we get here, and how can we emerge from the longest downturn in recent memory?



Daniel... Read more

Unlabel

By: Marc Ecko

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn & Marc Ecko

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Living proof that you can be a marketing and business whiz and still be a true artist.” —CNBCAs instructive as it is innovative, Unlabel will empower you to channel your creativity, find the courage to defy convention, and summon the confidence to act and compete in any environment.This blueprint will teach you how to grow both creatively and... Read more

The Warren Buffett Way

By: Robert Hagstrom

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Warren Buffett remains one of the most sought-after and watched figures in business today. He has become a billionaire and investment sage by buying chunks of companies and holding onto them, managing them as businesses, and eventually reaping huge profits for himself and investors in Berkshire Hathaway. The first two editions of The Warren... Read more

Secrets of Silicon Valley

By: Deborah Perry Piscione

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come... Read more

The Maker Movement Manifesto

By: Mark Hatch

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

YOU can create the next breakthrough innovation

A revolution is under way. But it's not about tearing down the old guard. It's about building, it's about creating, it's about breathing life into groundbreaking new ideas. It's called the Maker Movement, and it's changing the world.

Mark Hatch has been at the forefront of the Maker Movement since it... Read more

How to Transform Yourself From Employee to Online Entrepreneur

By: Omar Johnson

Narrated by: Michael Griffith

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As a 9-5 employee you are trapped. You toil everyday working for someone else making them rich while you settle for the crumbs earning just enough to pay your bills and buy a gadget or two. You are like a hamster running in a wheel going nowhere fast. You realize this and you are seeking a change, not just any type of change, but a monumental... Read more

Beyond the Idea

By: Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling authors of Reverse Innovation and How Stella Saved the Farm distill more than a decade of exclusive research into one short, powerful, action-oriented book.

Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the... Read more

Jim Henson

By: Brian Jay Jones

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson

He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born... Read more

Winning from Within

By: Erica Ariel Fox

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you run a Fortune 500 company or serve as CEO of your household, negotiating effectively is crucial to leading wisely and living well.Leading and living are a series of constant negotiations. Consider what goes on during your typical week: Can you influence your client to accept your proposal? Will you persuade colleagues to give you the... Read more

Finding the Next Steve Jobs

By: Nolan Bushnell & Gene Stone

Narrated by: Joseph C. Wilson

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s and Steve Jobs’s first boss, the secrets to finding, hiring, keeping, and nurturing creative talent.The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly... Read more

Eyes Wide Open

By: Noreena Hertz

Narrated by: Noreena Hertz

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This game-changing book empowers readers to become confident, independent, wise decision-makers— savvy to how our emotions, moods, and habits can trip us up.An investor wonders whether to put his money into the stock market or to keep it in a savings account. A patient is torn between opting for surgery and trying an experimental drug therapy. A... Read more

REPLY ALL...and Other Ways to Tank Your Career

By: Richie Frieman

Narrated by: Richie Frieman

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of people have improved their lives with the help of Richie Frieman, the hilariously insightful columnist known as the Modern Manners Guy on the Quick and Dirty Tips network. In his new guide to fixing workplace faux pas, he interviews dozens of CEOs, celebrities, designers, musicians, artists, and everyone in between to get the pros'... Read more

The Holy Spirit, Your Financial Advisor

By: Dr. Creflo Dollar

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people are cautious about any advice they receive concerning their finances. But what if that advice were to come from the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity? In The Holy Spirit, Your Financial Advisor, Dr. Creflo Dollar investigates what the Bible has to say about the role of the Holy Spirit in the area of making and keeping... Read more

Jumpstart Your Leadership

By: Shawn Doyle, CSP

Narrated by: Rich Germaine

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jumpstart Your Leadership- 10 Jolts to Leverage Your LeadershipAre you a leader? Would like to be a better leader? Would you like to be a leader in the future? Then this book is for you. In this book Shawn Doyle will show you the tools tips and techniques for becoming the kind of leader that other people want to follow.Jumpstart Your Leadership... Read more

Jumpstart Your Creativity

By: Shawn Doyle, CSP

Narrated by: Rich Germaine

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you creative? Do you want to be more creative in your business and personal life? Everyone has the ability to be creative.This fun lighthearted and easy to read book will give you 10 Jolts to reawaken and tap into your innate creativity in order to be more successful at work and in your personal life. In this book, you will learn the tools... Read more

Looptail

By: Bruce Poon Tip

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This book combines an extraordinary first-person account of an entrepreneurial instinct to start and develop a highly-successful international travel adventure company and reveals unusual management secrets that not only keep employees fully engaged but also keep customers extremely happy.
After being fired from McDonald's as a teenager, Poon... Read more

Den of Thieves

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael... Read more

Frauen auf Augenhöhe

By: Barbara Schneider

Narrated by: Sonngard Dressler & Gilles Karolyi

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit Frauen im Topmanagement sollen Unternehmen erfolgreicher werden, heißt es allerorten. Wenn das so einfach wäre. Trotz guter Vorsätze tun sich beide Seiten schwer. Frauen gelingt mit ihrer Topausbildung zwar der Eintritt in nahezu alle Unternehmen, Institutionen und Funktionen. Was aber nicht gelingt, ist, Frauen zu halten und an die Spitze... Read more

30 Minuten Markenführung

By: Arnd Zschiesche & Oliver Errichiello

Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi, Gordon Piedesack & Sabina Godec

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Marken begleiten unseren Alltag: Apple, Mercedes und Co. stehen als Synonyme für Erfolg, Einfluss und Bedeutung. Es scheint, Marke ist heute alles und alles ist Marke. Doch was ist dran am Mythos "Marke"? Arnd Zschiesche und Oliver Errichiello erklären in diesem Hörbuch, wie eine Marke konkret funktioniert und wie Unternehmen die Marke... Read more

Vertrieb geht heute anders

By: Andreas Buhr

Narrated by: Andreas Buhr, Thomas Balou Martin & Julia Beerhold

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Kunden warten heute nicht mehr auf neue Produkte, sie möchten sie mitgestalten. Und sie geben mit ihrer Kaufentscheidung ein Statement über ihre Wertewelt ab. Die Zeiten, in denen Produkte handfeste Bedürfnisse erfüllen, ist damit vorbei. Das erfordert ein massives Umdenken im Vertrieb. Andreas Buhr zeigt, wie ein solches Umdenken stattfinden... Read more

Grow a Pair

By: Larry Winget

Narrated by: Larry Winget

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The straight-talking, New York Times bestselling author and Pitbull of Personal Development is back with a pithy and prescriptive guide to success. A five-time bestselling author and one of the country' s leading business speakers, Larry has made a reputation for being the first to challenge the positive-attraction gurus and the... Read more

The Firm

By: Duff McDonald

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of McKinsey & Company, America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, told by one of the nation's leading financial journalistsFounded in 1926, McKinsey & Company has become one of the world's leading management consulting firms, helping to invent American business and... Read more