Business audiobooks

Teen Recidivism Rate

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rikers Island prison houses 88,000 inmates a year, many of whom are repeat offenders. In an effort to decrease the teen recidivism rate, high finance and do-good innovation have made an unlikely partnership. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores a new way to fund government social services through private investment. Read more

Give and Take

By: Adam Grant

Narrated by: Brian Keith Lewis

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, and Originals

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is... Read more

Fear Your Strengths

By: Robert B. Kaiser & Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you.

Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess... Read more

Intelligent Leadership

By: John Mattone

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s business environment, leaders at all levels are facing enormous challenges when it comes to achieving and sustaining breakthrough operating results. Globalization, economic change, more stringent regulation, and tougher governance make realizing shareholder value increasingly difficult.

Intelligent Leadership is written for leaders who... Read more

Extreme Productivity

By: Robert C. Pozen

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A road-tested formula for improving your performance, from one of the business world's most successful—and productive—executives.Robert C. Pozen taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-services firm. He's written six books and hundreds of articles, raised a family with... Read more

How to Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did

By: Vic Johnson

Narrated by: Wes Talbot

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Who Else Wants To Write a Book This Weekend?”

It’s easier than you think!

Best-selling author Vic Johnson actually wrote this book in a weekend to prove how easy it is. And he gives you step-by-step detail of everything he did, including the resources he uses to turn out content-rich books in no time at all.

How To Write a Book This Weekend is a... Read more

Own The Room

By: Amy Jen Sue & Muriel Maignan Wilkins

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

People are drawn to, and influenced by, leaders who communicate authentically, connect with people, and have immediate impact. So how do you become one? How can you learn to "own the room?" This audiobook will help you develop your leadership presence.

The authors offer a simple and compelling framework as well as practices for developing your... Read more

Own The Room

By: Amy Jen Sue & Muriel Maignan Wilkins

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

People are drawn to, and influenced by, leaders who communicate authentically, connect with people, and have immediate impact. So how do you become one? How can you learn to “own the room?” This book will help you develop your leadership presence.

The authors offer a simple and compelling framework as well as practices for developing your... Read more

Scope of the American Workforce?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Does new or increased use of technology have a hand in disappointing job growth? Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the March numbers and some key longer-term job market trends with Lisa Lynch, former chief economist at the Labor Department, and Andrew McAfee of MIT's Center for Digital Business. Read more

Sandra Day O'Connor Explores SCOTUS

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandra Day O'Connor made Supreme Court history as the first female justice to serve on the bench. In her new book, Out of Order, she explores other aspects of history at the high court, as well as her own approach to service. O'Connor talks with Judy Woodruff about making tough decisions and women in the legal profession. Read more

Other People's Money

By: Charles V. Bagli

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investors' dollars on a single deal. In Other People's Money, Charles V. Bagli, the New York Times reporter who first broke the story of the sale of Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village takes listeners inside the most spectacular failure in... Read more

This Is How to Get Your Next Job

By: Andrea Kay

Narrated by: Jessica Geffen

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Even in a bad economy, companies have job openings they can't fill. Considering the millions of people who are out of work or unhappily employed, how can that be? What are job seekers doing to turn off employers? And what is it that employers want but aren't finding? Leading career expert and syndicated columnist Andrea Kay asked employers one... Read more

High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service

By: Micah Solomon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Micah Solomon

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age of Twitter, smartphones, and self-service kiosks, high-tech but still high-touch customer service is the answer.

Today’s customers are a hard bunch to crack. Time-strapped, screen-addicted, value-savvy, and socially engaged, their expectations are tougher than ever for a business to keep up with. They are empowered like never before and... Read more

Reinventing You

By: Dorie Clark

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A step-by-step guide to reinventing you

Are you where you want to be professionally?

Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, the goal is clear: to build a career that thrives on your unique passions and talents. But to achieve this in today’s competitive job market, it’s... Read more

Top Dog

By: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

Narrated by: Po Bronson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting... Read more

Exposure

By: Michael Woodford

Narrated by: Michael Woodford

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When Michael Woodford was made president of Olympus—the company to which he had dedicated thirty years of his career—he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of Japan’s corporate giants. Some wondered at the appointment—how could a gaijin who didn’t even speak Japanese understand how to run a Japanese company? But within... Read more

The Art of Insight

By: Charles Kiefer & Malcolm Constable

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

We have all experienced it: the jolt of an insight arriving like a thunderclap, the metaphorical light bulb over your head as you drive to work, take a shower, or unload the dishwasher. These all-too-elusive “aha moments” come sporadically and without warning. But what if insights could be accessed more reliably in everyday life? Charles Kiefer... Read more

The Great Deformation

By: David A. Stockman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 36 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored, by outspoken former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David StockmanDavid Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the United States government. It... Read more

Down the Up Escalator

By: Barbara Garson

Narrated by: Jeanine Kane

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal┬¡lenges at almost all Americans save the superaffluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up... Read more

Simple

By: Alan Siegel & Irene Etzkorn

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn have championed simplicity as a competitive advantage and a consumer right. Consulting with businesses and organizations around the world to streamline products, services, processes and communications, they have achieved dramatic results.

In Simple, the culmination of their work together, Siegel and... Read more

Conversations That Sell

By: Nancy Bleeke

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Today’s buyers want more from sales professionals than a simple consultation. What they’re hungry for are meaningful, collaborative conversations built on mutual value and trust, that result in a Win3...where they, the seller, and the organization, achieve a winning outcome.

Conversations That Sell introduces sales professionals to the... Read more

Leading from the Emerging Future

By: Katrin Kaeufer & Otto Scharmer

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this mind-opening new book, bestselling author Otto Scharmer (Theory U, 40,000 copies sold) and Katrin Kaufer reveal the root cause of the economic, social, ecological, political, spiritual, and institutional crises today and detail seven new practices for revolutionizing and revamping society and growth. Read more

Leading from the Emerging Future

By: Otto Scharmer & Katrin Kaeufer

Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system... Read more

How to Influence People

By: John C. Maxwell & Jim Dornan

Narrated by: Van Tracy

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Leadership guru John C. Maxwell and his friend Jim Dornan share their straightforward, effective way for making an impact on the world: make an impact on individual people. How? Through influence. How to Influence People will empower you on your journey to becoming a potent and positive influence in your relationships both great and small. By... Read more