Business audiobooks

The Pause Principle

By: Kevin Cashman

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling thought leader turns standard thinking on it's head--leadership is not all action. It's also reflection and even meditation. Cashman's breakthrough book explains how any leader can find the means to purpose, innovation, and energy by periodically turning off the Blackberry and pausing to think. Read more

The Signal and the Noise

By: Nate Silver

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to make better predictions in a world drowning in data, from the nation’s foremost political forecaster—updated with insights into the pandemic, journalism today, and polling

One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Works of Nonfiction of... Read more

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure

By: John Allison

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? The answer is no.Not only is free market capitalism good for the economy, says industry expert John Allison, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation's... Read more

Nine Minutes on Monday

By: James Robbins

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Globe & Mail's #1 Business Book of the Year!

"ALL IN, ALL THE TIME"

Low performance and high turnover is not the result of lazy, apathetic workers. It's not about decreasing budgets. And it's not about a terrible economy.

It's about leadership that doesn't engage employees.

In Nine Minutes on Monday, leadership guru James Robbins argues that... Read more

The Einstein Money

By: Joe Carlen

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Even in 2012, Ben Graham is still a hero to me" —Warren Buffett
(from the author's interview with Buffett for The Einstein of Money)
Warren Buffett has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham, a man he personally studied and worked under, as the primary influence on his investment approach. Indeed, there is a direct line between the... Read more

The Richest Woman in America

By: Janet Wallach

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.

    No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal to more than 2 billion dollars today. A strong believer in... Read more

Leadership Challenge

By: James Kouzes & Barry Posner

Narrated by: Authors

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The leadership book that outshines them all, completely revised for today's business realities with more international examples and a laser focus on business issues. Grounded in extensive research, it captures the continuing interest in leadership as a critical aspect of human organizations. Read more

The Debt-Free Spending Plan

By: JoAnneh Nagler

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone suffering under the crushing weight of debt knows how impossible it can seem to find a way out. It's overwhelming - and the more complicated the proposed solution, the harder it is to stick with it. That's why "The Debt-Free Spending Plan" is simple. It doesn't require sifting through chapters of high-minded financial advice or digging up... Read more

Idea Agent

By: Lina M Echeverria

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

There is perhaps no leadership challenge more daunting than managing creativity—and more urgent than delivering breakthrough innovation. How do you harness some of the most passionate, intelligent people in your organization without stifling them? How do you simultaneously unleash their energy and channel it into something tangible?

Lina... Read more

The Adderall Diaries

By: Stephen Elliott

Narrated by: Jason Butler Harner

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as " a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you' ve never... Read more

Knowledge and Decisions

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed. Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns... Read more

Free Market Revolution

By: Yaron Brook & Don Watkins

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a look at how our current economic crises are caused by too much government—and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by big government but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop... Read more

The Click Moment

By: Frans Johansson

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On the one hand we aren’t surprised by the uncertainty of everyday life, but on the other we believe that success can be analyzed and planned for. It is a revealing paradox. The implications are explosive and they obliterate every common-sense notion we have about strategy and planning.

The Click Moment is about two very simple but highly... Read more

Us Plus Them

By: Todd L. Pittinsky

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving beyond mere tolerance

Us-versus-them is the costly mind-set in which organizations, communities, and whole nations too often find themselves trapped. In fact, recognizing difference as a positive force can bring astonishing value to even the most diverse organizations.

In Us Plus Them, leadership scholar Todd Pittinsky introduces a... Read more

I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

By: Kate White

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Kate White is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the #1 young women's magazine in the world, and a hugely successful businesswoman. In I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, she shares her secrets to success. A witty, wise, straight-talking career guide for women, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This is the perfect book... Read more

4th and Goal

By: Monte Burke

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "powerful and inspiring" true story, follow Joe Moglia's legendary career transition from head football coach at Coastal Carolina University to the CEO of TD Ameritrade, one of the country's most successful financial firms: "If you're a football fan, this is a book you must read" (Bill Cowher, former coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers).

As... Read more

So Good They Can't Ignore You

By: Cal Newport

Narrated by: Dave Mallow

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this book with unique perspective, professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers.

A focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with professionals who admit... Read more

Future Perfect

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Samuel Cohen

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest... Read more

Red Ink

By: David Wessel

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter David Wessel looks at the 2011 fiscal year (which ended September 30) to see where all the money was actually spent, and why the budget process has grown wildly out of control. Through the eyes of key people—Jacob Lew, White House... Read more

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

By: Beverly Kaye & Julie Winkle Giulioni

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it’s frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don’t have time—for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.... Read more

My First Time

By: Phil Growick

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Nicole Vilencia & the contrib...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

All you've heard about the crazy world of advertising doesn't even come close.From the top ad people all over the world—the ones who create the best television commercials and ads: the ones you love, the ones you remember, the ones you wish you had thought of yourself—come their own stories, in their own words, about the first work they ever... Read more

Hidden America

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”

Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects... Read more

Market Mind Games

By: Denise Shull

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Seize the advantage in every risk decision with the most misunderstood asset you have-human emotion

What if the mystery of market crashes stems from a simple but total misunderstanding of our own minds? Could everything we think we know about ourselves-intelligence and rationality versus emotion and irrationality-be wildly off the mark? Simply... Read more

How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things

By: Neil Smith

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Companies make headline news all the time for decisions that make many of us scratch our heads in wonder, even companies that are smart and successful. Here, Neil Smith, with more than 20 years of experience leading large-scale performance improvements, reveals the hidden barriers that cause excellent companies to do dumb things, and smart... Read more