Business audiobooks

Tap Dancing to Work

By: Carol J. Loomis

Narrated by: Susan Boyce & Barry Press

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Carol J. Loomis first wrote about Warren Buffett for Fortune in 1966, when he was a little-known hedge fund manager in Omaha. They became close personal friends over the following decades, giving Loomis unique access and insight into the mind of the world's greatest investor. For the last thirty-five years she has also been the pro-bono editor... Read more

High Court Hears Challenge to Same-Sex Marriage Ban

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, a ballot measure that bans same-sex marriage. Kwame Holman reports on reactions from supporters on both sides of the debate. Judy Woodruff talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal, who analyzes the arguments inside the courtroom. Read more

101 Tough Conversations to Have With Employees

By: Paul Falcone

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Inappropriate attire, lateness, sexually
offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues . . . these are
just a few of the uncomfortable topics you may have to discuss with your
employees. 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides you with
proven guidance and realistic sample dialogues you can use to facilitate
... Read more

Marketplace 3.0

By: Hiroshi Mikitani

Narrated by: Jun Naito

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Hiroshi Mikitani, founder of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has seen the next battleground in the fight for the future of the Internet. Today’s major e-commerce players are quietly building borderless platforms that are overturning the global brick-and-mortar model, and changing the way local businesses think about their customers. But is this good... Read more

Decisive

By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
　
   Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports... Read more

The Physics of Wall Street

By: James Owen Weatherall

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, "beware of geeks bearing formulas." But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much... Read more

Tales of Murder, Murderers and the Death Penalty at the Supreme Court

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new book examines the murders, murderers and capital punishment overseen by the highest court in the U.S. Jeffrey Brown talks with veteran journalists Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien about Murder at the Supreme Court, which documents some of the most notorious crimes and subsequent penalties. Read more

Sugar in the Blood

By: Andrea Stuart

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the... Read more

Refresh Irish Economy After Global Recession

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ireland was hit hard during the global recession, suffering dramatic job losses and a mass exodus of skilled workers. Though the Irish are still cautious, a recovery is being driven by locally-grown businesses, startups and new takes on heritage industries. Ray Suarez reports from Dublin on pioneering businesses sprouting up. Read more

Drunk Tank Pink

By: Adam Alter

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating look at the way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control

Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane Katrina victims than to Hurricane Rita victims? Are you really more likely to solve puzzles if you watch a light bulb illuminate? How... Read more

Business Brilliant

By: Lewis Schiff

Narrated by: John Morgan

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask a member of the middle class what it takes to become wealthy, and she'll tell you it takes a bold new idea. Tell that to a self-made millionaire, and he'll vehemently disagree. What explains the difference in mind-set between the self-made wealthy and the rest of us? It's not what you think, as journalist and entrepreneur Lewis Schiff... Read more

Hank Greenberg with Betty Liu

By: Hank Greenberg

Narrated by: Betty Liu

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hank Greenberg, AIG’s former CEO of 40 years and now head of Starr Companies, sat down with Bloomberg Television anchor Betty Liu at 92Y to tell the complete, inside story of the rise and near-destruction of AIG. Taking issue with the unfair perception of post-bailout AIG, Greenberg believes that the government has exceeded its constitutional... Read more

Genuine Sustainable Abundance

By: Bernard Lietaer & Jacqui Dunne

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Does our present system of economics truly serve the needs of the 21st century world? What are the stepping stones to a new economic structure? Lietaer and Dunne give many examples of successful, large scale, cooperative and complementary currencies in place today offering various communities resilience and sustainability and making for more... Read more

How Stella Saved the Farm

By: Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about making innovation happen. Written by the authors of the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble.

This story resonates in organizations of all types—public sector, private sector, and social sector, from mammoth... Read more

Happy Go Money

By: Melissa Leong

Narrated by: Melissa Leong

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Social’s finance expert connects money and happiness in this fresh, feel-good guide to financial well-being
Everything tells us that what will make us happy can be bought, whether it’s the latest gadgets, renovated kitchens, or luxury goods. But research has shown that having more money in the bank and more stuff around the house doesn’t... Read more

Lean In

By: Sheryl Sandberg

Narrated by: Elisa Donovan

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. 

In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers.... Read more

Trading Bases

By: Joe Peta

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.

After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance... Read more

Personality Power

By: Shoya Zichy & Ann Bidou

Narrated by: Josey Miller

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to both enjoying and succeeding at work lies in knowing your core strengths—and making the most of them. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Grounded, realistic, and accountable? Competitive and theoretical? Spontaneous and action-oriented? Creative and empathetic?

Based on the easy-to-understand “Color Q” model of the four major... Read more

The Power of Negative Thinking

By: Bob Knight

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, a classic bestseller, has inspired an optimistic perspective for millions of Americans. Now, in an inspirational and entertaining rebuttal, the legendary basketball coach Bob Knight explains why “negative thinking” will actually produce more positive results, in sports and in daily life.... Read more

The Customer Rules

By: Lee Cockerell

Narrated by: Lee Cockerell

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The former Executive Vice President of Walt Disney World shares indispensible Rules for serving customers with consistency, efficiency, creativity, sincerity, and excellence. Lee Cockerell knows that success in business--any business--depends upon winning and keeping customers. In 39 digestible, bite-sized chapters, Lee shares everything he has... Read more

Earn the Right to Win

By: Tom Coughlin

Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational guide for leaders by the two-time Super Bowl-winning coach of the New York GiantsPreparation is easy to praise but very hard to master. No modern coach, in any sport, understands that better than NFL veteran Tom Coughlin. He led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories (2008 and 2012) with his system of relentless... Read more

Creating Room to Read

By: John Wood

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books

What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the... Read more

Contagious

By: Jonah Berger

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that explains why certain products and ideas become popular.

“Jonah Berger knows more about what makes information ‘go viral’ than anyone in the world.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness

What makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. People don’t listen to... Read more

Inspired & Unstoppable

By: Tama Kieves

Narrated by: Tama Kieves

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What if everything you thought you needed to do to succeed was actually standing in the way of your success?


Tama Kieves, Harvard-lawyer-turned-career-coach, has spent the last decade crossing the United States and Canada, speaking to tens of thousands of people and sharing her inspiring story of moving from a career that was killing her to a... Read more