Business audiobooks

The Impact Equation

By: Julien Smith & Chris Brogan

Narrated by: Chris Brogan & Julien Smith

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Anyone can write a blog post, but not everyone can get it liked thirty-five thousand times, and not everyone can get seventy-five thousand subscribers. But the reason we’ve done these things isn’t because we’re special. It’s because we tried and failed, the same way you learn to ride a bike. We tried again and again, and now we have an idea how... Read more

Wired for Success

By: Wendy Jago

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Can your brain help you become more successful? YES!

In Wired for Success, Wendy Jago introduces the listener to NLP—Neuro-Linguistic Programming—a therapeutic technique used to recognize and reprogram unconscious patterns of thought and behavior in order to modify psychological responses, and thereby alter your subconscious processes to work... Read more

Harder Than I Thought

By: Robert D. Austin, Shannon O'Donnell & Richard L...

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a great leader today is much harder than you think

Meet Jim Barton. He’s a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity—thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes?

If you’re a top executive today, you probably are.

Harder Than... Read more

The Experience Economy, Updated Edition

By: B. Joseph Pine & James H. Gilmore

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1999 Joseph Pine and James Gilmore offered readers the idea of the experience economy as a new way to connect with customers and secure their loyalty. As a result, their book The Experience Economy is now a classic, embraced by readers and companies worldwide and read in more than a dozen languages.Though the world has changed in many ways... Read more

Leadership Mastery

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Chris Widener

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the difference between leadership skills and integrity?Drawn from research performed with thousands of leaders, this audio program will teach you their top twelve characteristics. You can add these leadership traits to your arsenal to create passionate believers in your vision rather than compliant followers of your instructions. This... Read more

Mastering Influence & Persuasion

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Chris Widener

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Every salesperson needs help when it comes to developing skills to influence people. Learn the secrets to the trade, which when used effectively can turn any salesperson into a powerful force of persuasion. Imagine what you can accomplish by using this system to shape the opinions of buying committees, tough buyers, and resistant shoppers.... Read more

Crossing the Chasm

By: Geoffrey A. Moore

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for brining cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This revised and updated edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It’s... Read more

Warriors for the Human Spirit

By: Margaret Wheatley, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this time of constant distractions and disappointment we become exhausted and heartsick as our good work is ignored. Wheatley speaks with fierce honesty as she gives us the map of where we are. She also gives us tools that enliven and reinvigorate us in our work and relationships. She's the author of So Far From Home: Lost and Found in Our... Read more

Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Before You Quit Your Job was written and published, it was a guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs. Today—with the job market in shambles, overseas outsourcing and high unemployment—it can be a path to the salvation so many are looking for: A way take control of their life and use their skills and talents to create their future.Before You... Read more

No Reserve

By: Martín Redrado

Narrated by: Allan Robertson

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

No Reserve: The Limit of Absolute Power is a gripping and historically fascinating look into the dangers of mixing political power and economics in an emerging country. Written by Martín Redrado, president of Argentina’s Central Bank (2004-2010), readers learn how this Harvard-educated veteran of Wall Street and leading Latin American economist... Read more

Hasty Fiscal Fix to the Deficit

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Republicans claim $2.2 trillion would be saved by their plan for long-term deficit reduction, economist Paul Krugman calls it a "vapor plan," with few details on where savings will come from. Gwen Ifill talks to Krugman about why he thinks reducing the deficit too fast could push the economy back into recession. Read more

Going Social

By: Jeremy Goldman

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re not social, it’s like you’re not even there. That’s how critical social media marketing has become. Businesses everywhere are struggling to adapt, but transitioning from traditional marketing to online engagement is fraught with questions, such as: How much is a Facebook “like” worth? How can you effectively engage online influencers?... Read more

Building A Conscious Money Strategy

By: Patricia Aburdene

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Unfortunately many of our emotions and thoughts around money are neither conscious nor helpful. Aburdene guides us in cultivating positive money emotions in order to have greater self-mastery and to dissolve the old, unconscious patterns that sabotage our best efforts. She shares the earmarks of "conscious capitalism" and how to spend wisely... Read more

Coloring Outside the Lines

By: Jeff Tobe

Narrated by: Jeff Tobe

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The only thing that differentiates your service or your product from any others is your creativity and innovative thinking. This audio from creativity guru Jeff Tobe is an unusually charming collection of warm, funny, and instructive business tales. It provides numerous examples of street-smart sales tactics, exemplary customer service, and... Read more

The Success Equation

By: Michael J. Mauboussin

Narrated by: Wes Talbot

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” — From the Introduction

The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each—and how we can learn to tell the difference ahead of time.

In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled.... Read more

The Commitment Engine

By: John Jantsch

Narrated by: John Jantsch

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The small-business guru behind Duct Tape Marketing and The Referral Engine teaches listeners how to establish lasting commitment in their employees, customers, and businesses.

Why are some companies able to generate committed, long-term customers while others struggle to stay afloat? Why do the employees of some organizations fully dedicate... Read more

Antifragiliät - Anleitung für eine Welt, die wir nicht verstehen (Ungekürzt)

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Arvid Schalle

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir leben in einer unsicheren Welt, und das System, das sie beherrscht, hat auf dramatische Weise vorgeführt, wie zerbrechlich es ist. Und doch haben wir nichts daraus gelernt und setzen dieser Fragilität keine "Antifragilität" entgegen. Nassim Nicholas Taleb zeigt uns indes, wie das gehen kann. In seinem Weltbestseller "Der Schwarze Schwan"... Read more

Rethinking Reputation

By: Fraser P. Seitel & John Doorley

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Good public relations is no longer just icing—it’s a strategic imperative more important to your competitive success than even advertising or marketing. This is true whether you’re a century-old multibillion-dollar corporation or a penniless startup. In Rethinking Reputation, public relations guru Fraser Seitel and John Doorley, founder of the... Read more

Brand Real

By: Laurence Vincent

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Organizations are forever pouring creative energy into their branding strategies, tweaking their logos and websites, and building identities that range from warm and fuzzy to ultracool and edgy. But many forget that a brand, at its heart, is a promise to deliver results. If your brand experience fails to live up to that promise, customers will... Read more

History of Debt

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Between paying now or paying later, Americans have just about always preferred debt to taxes. Paul Solman talks to Simon Johnson of the MIT Sloan School of Management about his new book White House Burning, which chronicles the history -- including the whys and whererfores, virtues and vices -- of U.S. debt. Read more

Grace

By: Grace Coddington

Narrated by: Grace Coddington

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the ... Read more

Rich Dad's Rich Kid Smart Kid

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Timothy Wheeler

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Rich Kid Smart Kid is written for parents who value education, want to give their children a financial head start in life, and are willing to take an active role to make that happen.In the Information Age, a good education is more important than ever. But the current educational system may not be providing all the information a child needs
to... Read more

Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

There are “financial experts” who advise people to take out their credits cards and cut them up. And that may be a good plan for someone who is financially irresponsible, it’s not great advice for someone who wants to build wealth and become financially free. Cutting up your credit cards won’t make you rich; learning to leverage and manage debt... Read more

Be in Command

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Larry Iverson

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Develop the skills of command in this fast-paced, step-by-step program by Dr. Larry Iverson. This program will teach you the skills needed to achieve compliance—skills that are used by incident commanders, firefighters, and other professionals who require instant respect. Using the verbal and nonverbal tactics taught here, you can get people to... Read more