Business audiobooks

Before Happiness

By: Shawn Achor

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This fresh, uplifting book is filled with ideas for improving our organizations and our lives.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife

“With his characteristic blend of academic rigor and twinkle in the eye, Shawn Achor will change your view of happiness, of... Read more

Thinking in New Boxes

By: Luc De Brabandere & Alan Iny

Narrated by: Alan Iny

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.
 
LIGHTERS?
 
With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a business in the PEN “box”—figured out that there was growth to... Read more

Word of Mouse

By: Marc Ostrofsky

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Rich Click! delivers cutting-edge advice for consumers and marketers on how to get the most from today’s technology.

Gain a competitive edge— get the most from today’s technology!

Technology changes so fast that it’s easy to be intimidated by it. Our personal choices and business decisions are... Read more

The Idealist

By: Nina Munk

Narrated by: Susan Nezami

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award


A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
    
 "The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the... Read more

Getting to 50/50

By: Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a great career, a great marriage, and be a great mother. The key is tapping into your best resource and... Read more

The Business Solution to Poverty

By: Paul Polak & Mal Warwick

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The nearly three billion people living on two dollars a day are not just the world's greatest challenge—they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based Design: starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor, armed with a thorough... Read more

Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students and "B" Students Work for the Government

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Kiyosaki expands on his belief that the school system was created to churn out Es / Employees...those "A Students" who read well, memorize well and test well... and not the creative thinkers, visionaries, and dreamers - entrepreneurs-in-the-making...those "C Students" who grow up to be the innovators and creators of new ideas, businesses,... Read more

The 5 Essentials

By: Bob Deutsch & Lou Aronica

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. What he has found is that most of us set the bar too low in our lives, both personally and professionally. We choose not to pursue our greatest ambitions because we feel we are incapable of reaching them. But he has also found that... Read more

AARP The Other Talk

By: Tim Prosch

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Silver Living Now Book Award * Silver National Mature Media Award * APEX Award * Washington Post Book of the Month * Wealth and Money Management Award * Bronze Independent Publisher Book Award * Foreword INDIEFAB Book of the Year Honorable Mention

A one-of-a-kind practical guide to making the tough decisions parents and their adult children... Read more

Scarcity

By: Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.

Why do successful people... Read more

Promote Yourself

By: Dan Schawbel

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

How people perceive you has always been critical to a successful career. Now add in the Internet, social media, and the unrelenting hum of 24/7 business, and the ability to brand and promote yourself effectively becomes absolutely essential for young professionals to land the job, earn the raise, or get that much-deserved promotion. It is only... Read more

Simply Managing

By: Henry Mintzberg

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

In 2009 Henry Mintzberg's Managing was named one of the best books of the year by Strategy+Business and Library Journal, the number two business book of the year by the Toronto Globe and Mail, one of the top ten academic titles by Choice magazine, and the management book of the year in a competition organized by the Chartered Management... Read more

The Immigrant Exodus

By: Vivek Wadhwa

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Many of the United States’ most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating... Read more

Customer Centricity

By: Peter Fader

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Not all customers are created equal.

Despite what the tired old adage says, the customer is not always right. Not all customers deserve your best efforts: in the world of customer centricity, there are good customers…and then there is pretty much everybody else.

Upending some of our most fundamental beliefs, renowned behavioral data expert Peter... Read more

Delegation and Supervision

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Managers are judged by results—and as a manager, those results hinge on your ability to delegate and supervise. You’ll be surprised at how efficient your team becomes when you master Brian Tracy’s essential skills. This indispensable guide reveals his 21 time-tested ways to boost performance, including how to:
• Define work, assign it, and set... Read more

The Power of Consistency

By: Weldon Long

Narrated by: Weldon Long

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It's easy to blame failures on external circumstances. But the fact of life is, bad things happen to good people. The most successful people didn't get where they are by miraculously avoiding every obstacle in life. They succeeded by mastering a Prosperity Mindset that prepared them to overcome challenges and thrive in the face of... Read more

Leading With Passion

By: John J. Murphy

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

An inspiring audiobook from best selling Pulling Together author, John J. Murphy! Effective, passionate leadership requires many things. In this audiobook, we cover ten essentials.

- Every manager, CEO, school administrator and principal should listen to this audio.
- Effective, passionate leadership requires many things. In this audiobook, we... Read more

Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of our global economic problems started in 1971...when President Richard Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard. Throughout history, when a government went off the gold standard, an age of turbulence began.In 1997, Robert's book Rich Dad Poor Dad stunned readers stating, "Your house is not an asset." As howls of protest went up around... Read more

Leadership Transformed

By: Peter Fuda

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

How does a good manager become a great leader? Ask around in business circles and you’ll get a thousand different answers. But now, internationally renowned leadership expert Dr. Peter Fuda has created a single, coherent roadmap for leadership effectiveness in Leadership Transformed.After more than a decade’s research and practice, Dr. Fuda... Read more

The Distraction Addiction

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day?

We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended.

Mobile devices and the web have invaded our... Read more

Compelling People

By: Matthew Kohut & John Neffinger

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

How People Judge You—And How To Come Out Looking Good

You will never look at people the same way again—including yourself—after this lively look at how we make character judgments.

Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress, and Nobel Prize winners, authors Matt Kohut... Read more

Titan

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 35 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award–winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on... Read more

Springboard

By: G. Richard Shell

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows that you are supposed to “follow your dream.” But where is the road map to help you discover what that dream is?

You have just found it. In Springboard, award-winning author and teacher G. Richard Shell helps you find your future. His advice: Take an honest look inside and then answer two questions:

What, for me, is success?

How... Read more

The Fortune Cookie Principle

By: Bernadette Jiwa

Narrated by: Bernadette Jiwa

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not how good you are. It's how well you tell your story.

Big corporations might have huge marketing and advertising budgets but you’ve got a story. Your brand story isn't just what you tell people. It's what they believe about you based on the signals your brand sends. The Fortune Cookie Principle is a brand building framework and... Read more