Business audiobooks

The Hour between Dog and Wolf

By: John Coates

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior—or stress and depressionIn this eye-opening book, Coates—a former Wall Street trader and now a world-class neuroscientist—describes the role our biology plays in our risk-taking behavior. Coates brings his research to life by telling a story of... Read more

Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, Revised and Expanded Third Edition

By: Rick Kirschner & Rick Brinkman

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic guide to bringing out the best in people at their worst-updated with even more can’t-standable people!

Dealing with People You Can’t Stand has been helping good people deal with bad behavior in a positive, professional way for nearly two decades.

Unfortunately, as the world becomes smaller and time more compressed, new difficult people... Read more

The Lost Bank

By: Kirsten Grind

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and... Read more

Dark Pools

By: Scott Patterson

Narrated by: Byron Wagner

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them.

In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who dreamed of... Read more

The Price of Inequality

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live."

Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show... Read more

The Art of Being Unreasonable

By: Eli Broad

Narrated by: Walter Dixon & Eli Broad

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Unorthodox success principles from a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist

Eli Broad's embrace of "unreasonable thinking" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his wealth to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to fund scientific research institutes, K-12 education reform, and some... Read more

Sleeping With Your Smart Phone

By: Leslie A. Perlow

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Does it have to be this way?

Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost?

In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she... Read more

Unintended Consequences

By: Edward Conard

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into assuming mortgages they couldn't afford. It blames average... Read more

California City Considers Sugary Drink Tax

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposes banning extra-large sugar drinks from public venues, the city of Richmond, Calif., may be poised to go further than any other government in the U.S. with a new tax on soda. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on a controversial public health campaign to combat obesity and diabetes. Read more

Rich Dad Poor Dad

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rich Dad Poor Dad is the #1 personal finance book of all time. Listen today to set yourself up for a wealthy, happy future.Robert Kiyosaki’s easy tips and straight talk will…Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become richChallenge the belief that your house is an assetDefine once and for all an asset and a liabilityShow... Read more

Work Happy

By: Jill Geisler

Narrated by: Rhoda Griffin

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform your professional life and bring joy back to the office with the cheery guidance of a marketing pro who believes that the best work environment is a happy one.

Management guru Jill Geisler has coached countless men and women who want to build their leadership skills, help employees do their best work, and make workplaces happy and... Read more

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

By: Dan Ariely

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book offers especially keen insights into the ways in which we cut corners while still thinking of ourselves as moral people.”  — TimeDan Ariely, behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, returns... Read more

American Icon

By: Bryce G. Hoffman

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, Ford had... Read more

How to Think Seriously about the Planet

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the overexploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects... Read more

30 Minuten Ver-rückte Unternehmer

By: Helmut Muthers

Narrated by: Gabi Franke, Heiko Grauel & Gilles Karolyi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ver-rückte Zeiten verlangen außergewöhnliche Maßnahmen und ver-rückte Unternehmer. Die unternehmerische Herausforderung für Manager, Freiberufler, Verkäufer, Marketing- und Vertriebsexperten hat eine neue Dimension erreicht. Die Frage ist: Wie kann ich mich aus der Durchschnittlichkeit abheben, wie falle ich dem Kunden auf? In diesem Hörbuch... Read more

How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents

By: Zac Bissonnette

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Striking out on your own for the first time is exhilarating. But in a culture full of bad advice, predatory banks, and splurge-now-pay-later temptations, it can also be extremely dangerous--leading you to make financial decisions that could hurt you for years to come. Combine this with a slumped economy, mounds of student loans, and dubious... Read more

The Tools

By: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most... Read more

Tubes

By: Andrew Blum

Narrated by: Andrew Blum

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”
—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of TrafficIn Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine, takes us on an engaging, utterly fascinating tour behind... Read more

The Unfair Trade

By: Michael J. Casey

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances and inequities.
 
The trillions of dollars that... Read more

Coach Yourself to Win

By: Howard M. Guttman

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A proven process for changing the way you behave--used by a renowned executive coach for more than 25 years Are you able, ready, and willing to permanently change your behavior? Permanently replacing deeply ingrained behaviors with new ones is one of the hardest challenges to overcome. But in Coach Yourself to Win, master executive coach... Read more

Predator Nation

By: Charles H. Ferguson

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’ path to conquest. 
     Over the last several... Read more

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

By: Anthony Scaramucci

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Little Book of Hedge Funds that's big on explanations even the casual investor can use.
An accessible overview of hedge funds, from their historical origin, to their perceived effect on the global economy, to why individual investors should understand how they work, The Little Book of Hedge Funds is essential reading for anyone seeking the... Read more

The Real Crash

By: Peter D. Schiff

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For over 30% new material including many startling developments that have occurred in the past few years, check out The Real Crash Fully Revised and Updated Edition, on sale now.

You might be thinking everything's okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over.

You'd be wrong.

In The Real Crash, New York Times... Read more

Don’t Mess with the Princess

By: Lisa Jimenez

Narrated by: Lisa Jimenez

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't Mess with the Princess reveals the truth about femininity and the power of being a woman in business and in life. It will inspire you to discover your ideal career, attract your dream mate, and manifest your dreams to live a life you love.Read live by Lisa Jiminez, this provocative audiobook will help you reclaim your power and stop... Read more