Business audiobooks

Who Stole the American Dream?

By: Hedrick Smith

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
 
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s... Read more

The Betrayal of the American Dream

By: James B. Steele & Donald L. Barlett

Narrated by: Wes Talbot

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world’s greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream:... Read more

Freedom's Forge

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist... Read more

Sexy Little Numbers

By: Dimitri Maex & Paul B. Brown

Narrated by: Steve Kramer

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine if you could identify your business’s most profitable customers, craft a better marketing strategy to communicate with them, and inspire them to buy more?

Well now you can. And the best part is that you can do it using the data you already have.

Today, everything we do creates data, and the volumes are enormous.  Virtually every time... Read more

How Women Lead

By: Sharon Hadary & Laura Henderson

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

LEAD LIKE A WOMAN

“Rich with proven, practical knowledge and insights from highly successful women that you can put into action immediately to create your executive presence, be viewed as ‘leadership material,’ and maximize your opportunities.”

-Nina McLemore, Founder and CEO, Nina McLemore, Inc.; founder and former President, Liz Claiborne... Read more

It's Rising Time!

By: Kim Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In It’s Rising Time! Kim Kiyosaki makes a “call to women” — women who want to take control of their financial futures, women who don’t want to depend upon someone else for their security and well-being, women who want to be better partners in making great financial decisions for their families.Kim encourages women to believe that it’s time to... Read more

30 Minuten Resilienz

By: Ulrich Siegrist & Martin Luitjens

Narrated by: Sabina Godec, Heiko Grauel & Gordon Piedesack

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Resiliente Menschen verfügen über psychische und mentale Widerstandskraft. Krisen werden für sie nicht zu Stolpersteinen, sondern zu Wegmarken für eine positive Zukunft. Resilienz als soziale Fertigkeit ist aus dem Berufsleben nicht mehr wegzudenken. Lesen Sie, wie Sie Krisen unbeschadet überstehen, Ihre innere Widerstandskraft trainieren und... Read more

30 Minuten Machtspielchen im Büro

By: Bernd M. Wittschier

Narrated by: Sabina Godec, Heiko Grauel & Gordon Piedesack

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Machtspielchen im Berufsalltag kennt wahrscheinlich jeder und manchmal mag das eine oder andere Scharmützel sogar amüsant sein. Was aber, wenn aus dem harmlosen Spiel plötzlich bitterer Ernst wird? Spätestens dann gilt es, das Machtspiel aufzudecken und souverän zu intervenieren. Ziel dabei ist es, die destruktive Energie des Machtspiels wieder... Read more

Outside In

By: Harley Manning & Kerry Bodine

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

What simple innovation brought billions in new investments to Fidelity? What basic misunderstanding was preventing Office Depot from achieving its growth potential? What surprising insights helped the Mayo Clinic better serve both doctors and patients?The solution in each case was a focus on customer experience, the most powerful—and... Read more

The Lean Turnaround

By: Art Byrne & James P. Womack

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

THE C-LEVEL GUIDE TO SUCCEEDING WITH LEAN

"With 30 years of accumulated experience, Art Byrne is one of the rare few people who can speak with authority about the pitfalls of fi nancial measurement systems, the importance of respect for people, the power of Lean in the marketplace, and the leverage from organizing people around value streams.... Read more

Wisdom Meets Passion

By: Dan Miller & Jared Angaza

Narrated by: Dan Miller

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Today we face a unique dichotomy between the wisdom of the Baby Boomer generation and the passion of Generation Y. According to Wisdom Meets Passion, the question is not which is right, but rather how can the two work together? Wisdom, meet passion. Passion, wisdom. By bringing these two voices to the issue, this book takes readers through... Read more

The MoneySmart Family System

By: Steve Economides & Annette Economides

Narrated by: Annette Economides & Steve Economides

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it possible to raise financially responsible kids of any age in a society filled with consumerism and entitlement? New York Times best-selling authors Steve and Annette Economides raised their five kids while spending 77 percent less than the USDA predicted. And the money they did spend was also used to train their children to become... Read more

Wealth and Poverty

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as “the guide to capitalism,” the New York Times bestseller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this modern classic, Gilder affirms the moral superiority of free-market capitalism and explains why supply-side economics is more... Read more

The Power of Reputation

By: Chris Komisarjevsky

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

We judge people in business the same way we judge those in our personal lives. We listen to what they say, watch how they behave, and take note of the results of their actions. Success is ultimately built on a foundation of character, communication, and trust. To accomplish our goals, people must believe in us.

The Power of Reputation offers... Read more

Making Sense of Summer Work Visas for Foreigners

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the 1960s, the State Department has sponsored young foreigners for temporary, low-wage summer jobs in the U.S. But with high youth unemployment, some believe the program takes summer jobs away from American youth. So is the program's motivation truly "good will" or a source of cheap labor? Paul Solman reports. Read more

To Be or Wanna Be

By: Sean Pratt

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Created as a primer for the beginning actor, To Be or Wanna Be takes you on a journey that reveals the path to becoming a successful actor, as well as how to avoid the pitfalls of the starving artist. Beginning with the simple, yet important distinctions of how to take control of your career, and through personal anecdotes of how he discovered... Read more

Socialism

By: Ludwig von Mises

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 24 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1922 during those dark and dreary years of socialism's near-complete triumph, Socialism stunned the socialist world. Mises has given us a profoundly important treatise that assaults socialism in all its guises, a work that discusses every major aspect of socialism and leaves no stone unturned. A few of the numerous topics discussed... Read more

The Intention Economy

By: Doc Searls

Narrated by: Doc Searls

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Caveat venditor—let the seller beware

While marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with “big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:

• Control the flow and use of personal data
• Build their own loyalty programs
• Dictate their own... Read more

30 Minuten NLP im Alltag

By: Egon R. Sawizki

Narrated by: Gabi Franke, Heiko Grauel & Gilles Karolyi

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine leicht verständliche Einführung in die Welt des Neurolinguistischen Programmierens (NLP): Mithilfe von NLP können Sie Ihre Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit im Verbalen und Nonverbalen gezielt steigern. Dieses Hörbuch bietet Impulse und Möglichkeiten, NLP-Methoden kennenzulernen und im Alltag erfolgreich anzuwenden. - Verbale und nonverbale... Read more

Benefits and Pitfalls of Increased Oil and Gas

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years ago, the U.S imported two-thirds of its oil. Now, imports are less than half of U.S. oil needs. Jeffrey Brown talks to National Resources Defense Council's Kate Sinding and the Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce about increased domestic energy production and whether economic benefits outweigh environmental concerns. Read more

Utah Makes Deal For Private Gas Drilling

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

White River, Utah, attracts adventurers for its gorgeous vistas and rare solitude. But proposals to drill for natural gas on the public land worry environmentalists and Native American tribes. Ray Suarez tells of efforts by energy companies and the federal government to strike a deal to drill and protect the environment. Read more

Justice Scalia

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the key factor for a judge’s ruling is finding where the balance resides in a case. Margaret Warner interviews Justice Scalia about his new book, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, and asks about his opinions on the Second Amendment and the Affordable Care Act. Read more

Money Mischief

By: Milton Friedman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Milton Friedman demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system; how, for example, the work of two obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, and how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to appease a few senators from the American West helped... Read more

Coal vs. Natural Gas

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Colorado, coal and natural gas producers are fighting for energy dominance. Ray Suarez reports on the battle in a state that's also weighing what will be the most sustainable energy solution for the future. Read more