Business audiobooks

How to Be Exceptional

By: Joseph Folkman, Barbara Steel, John H. Zenger &...

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Globe & Mail's Top 10 Business books of the Year!

Rethink Everything You Know About Leadership Strengths

"A must-read for anyone wanting to positively stand out in an organization or for leaders wanting to raise the overall performance of the organization." -- Cindy Brinkley, Vice President, Global Human Resources, General... Read more

Positive Leadership, 2nd Edition

By: Kim Cameron

Narrated by: Tristan Wright

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the bestselling and leading introduction to the new field of positive leadership, which helps leaders in all types of organizations reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. Read more

Positive Leadership

By: Kim Cameron

Narrated by: Tristan Wright

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED

Beyond Success

Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance”—performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and... Read more

If I Knew Then What I Know Now

By: Richard Edler

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience is the best teacher. If only it didn’t take so long! And if only you didn’t have to suffer the consequences while learning your lessons. Now you don’t. The answers for many of them are collected in this recording. That’s because Richard Edler has tracked them down along with some of the questions that are worth knowing, posing, and... Read more

Leapfrogging

By: Soren Kaplan

Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Today’s business environment demands leapfroggers—those who create rapid, disruptive innovation, not small improvements. A leading innovation pioneer shows that businesses often ignore the very thing that could lead them to game-changing products—the power of surprise. How did Gatorade revitalize itself in the wake of Red Bull and Starbucks? How... Read more

Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become

By: Michael Schrage

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Who do you want your customers to become?

According to MIT innovation expert and thought leader Michael Schrage, if you aren’t asking this question, your strategic marketing and innovation efforts will fail.

In this latest HBR Single, Schrage provides a powerful new lens for getting more value out of innovation investment. He argues that asking... Read more

A Million a Minute

By: Hillary Davis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A Million a Minute is the inside story of the mysterious and wildly influential world of trading. In our interconnected global markets, traders have become the front-line, free-market warriors closest to the money, closest to the action. Their reactions to world events can topple governments and cause currencies to rise or plummet. They affect... Read more

The Little Book of Stock Market Cycles

By: Jeffrey A. Hirsch

Narrated by: Bill Perry

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Hirsch discusses how to capture market-beating returns by following specific stock market cycles
While predicting the direction of the stock market at any given point is difficult, it's a fact that the market exhibits well-defined and sometimes predictable patterns. While cycles do not repeat exactly all of the time, statistical evidence... Read more

24 Carat BOLD

By: Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Narrated by: Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Are you a thought leader?In the past, it has been hard to identify the qualities that distinguish true innovators from the rest of the pack. In this incisive and challenging book, leading thought leadership strategist Mindy Gibbins-Klein presents an exciting, systematic approach to becoming a 'REAL Thought Leader' and gaining recognition and... Read more

Milton Friedman

By: Eamonn Butler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great economists of the twentieth century, Milton Friedman has always challenged the prevailing economic orthodoxy. At the same time, his work has become popular because it is engagingly written and because it helps in practical prediction. Thanks to Friedman, money is now regarded as a far more powerful factor than it had been... Read more

Confessions of a Male Nurse

By: Michael Alexander

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty... Read more

The Common Law

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.In The Common Law, derived... Read more

Full Voice

By: Barbara McAfee

Narrated by: Barbara McAfee

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Your voice says a lot about you. Based on the tone and expression of your voice alone, your listeners may make up their minds about you before they even process the meaning of your words. And if what you say is at odds with how you say it, they can miss your message altogether. As important as our voices are, few of us know how to use them to... Read more

Bare Knuckle Selling

By: Simon Hazeldine

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Knockout Sales Tactics They Won’t Teach You At Business School

Written by a sales veteran with a track record spanning millions of pounds and dollars in sealed deals, this book blends the best psychological, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and classical persuasion techniques with a street-wise, gritty success system based on the author’s own... Read more

Disabled Workers Still Struggle

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-two years after George H.W. Bush signed the American Disability Act into law, questions remain on whether the law prevents hiring discrimination of disabled workers. Judy Woodruff talks to U.S. Business Leadership Network’s Jill Houghton and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) about efforts to employ more disabled people. Read more

One Big Thing

By: Phil Cooke

Narrated by: Phil Cooke

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop being average at so many things, and become extraordinary at one big thing. What were you born to accomplish with your life? One Big Thing will help you discover what you were born to do and allow it to revolutionize your business, your ministry, and your life. In today’s distracted, digital culture, it’s harder than ever to identify your... Read more

A Year Up

By: Gerald Chertavian

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring story of a pioneering program that is redefining urban young adults as economic assets, not deficitsDuring Gerald Chertavian’s many years as a Big Brother, the former technology entrepreneur realized that our nation’s "Opportunity Divide" strands millions of young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers at the bottom of the job... Read more

Design Like Apple

By: John Edson

Narrated by: John Edson & Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From his earliest days at Apple, Steve Jobs set the standard that all products should be "insanely great." Apple sees design as a tool for creating beautiful experiences that surprise and delight, but also convey a point of view down to the smallest detail—from the tactile feedback of a keyboard to the out-of-the-box experience of an iPhone... Read more

Winning the Story Wars

By: Jonah Sachs

Narrated by: Jonah Sachs

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The story wars are all around us. They are the struggle to be heard in a world of media noise and clamor. Today, most brand messages and mass appeals for causes are drowned out before they even reach us. But a few consistently break through the din, using the only tool that has ever moved minds and changed behavior—great stories.With insights... Read more

Günter, der innere Schweinehund, lernt verhandeln

By: Stefan Frädrich & Thomas Burzler

Narrated by: Stefan Frädrich

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Eigentlich wissen wir genau, wie wir verhandeln sollten: möglichst geschickt, selbstbewusst und gut vorbereitet. Ja, eigentlich … Aber wir kennen auch diese lästige Stimme in uns: "Ein bisschen Nachlass schadet nichts!", " Wir sind viel zu teuer! " oder "Vorbereitung kostet nur Zeit!" Diese Stimme kommt von Günter. Günter ist unser innerer... Read more

The Debt Bomb

By: Tom A. Coburn & John Hart

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In a nation whose debt has outgrown the size of its entire economy, the
greatest threat comes not from any foreign force but from Washington
politicians who refuse to relinquish the intoxicating power to borrow
and spend. Senator Tom Coburn reveals the fascinating, maddening story
of how we got to this point of fiscal crisis—and how we can... Read more

Do Nothing!

By: J. Keith Murnighan

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine you’ve just come back to work after a two-week vacation during which you actually relaxed, without calling in or checking e-mail. You discover that there are no pressing issues and that, on the contrary, your team scored a big new customer and fixed a nagging problem during your absence. No red flags or fires to put out.

Sadly, for most... Read more

Repeatability

By: James Allen & Chris Zook

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An argument for simplicity from the bestselling authors of Profit from the Core

Is radical reinvention the key to winning in today’s fast-paced world? Not judging by the results of some of the world’s best-performing companies.

In Repeatability, Chris Zook and James Allen—leaders of Bain & Company’s influential Strategy practice—warn that... Read more

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

By: Laura Vanderkam

Narrated by: Laura Vanderkam

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our... Read more