Business audiobooks

Real Time-Savers vs. False Time-Savers

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In your quest to save time, the advice you find in many books and articles sometimes hinders you more than it helps you. In this illuminating program, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson exposes a variety of false time-savers—tips and techniques you might have come across that offer little, if anything, in the way of benefit. He then... Read more

Quiet Leadership

By: David Rock

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their... Read more

Job-Seeking Vets Confront Stigma

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 12 percent of the roughly 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were jobless last month, compared to 9 percent of the total population. As part of his reporting on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman looks at the problems many service members face in finding a job back home. Read more

Retirement Heist

By: Ellen E. Schultz

Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

"'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the human resources representative wrote to her superiors. 'That would be the death of all existing retirees.'"It's no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame... Read more

Performance Driven Selling

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Magee

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

High performance in the sales arena is a matter of strategy and discipline. Top sales people are those who have disciplined themselves to do what others aren't willing to do or don't know how to do. In this high-powered, fast-paced program, you'll get a blueprint for success that is certain to take your sales results to the next level. You'll... Read more

Presentation Skills

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Tony Alessandra

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to love public speaking—and be great at it too! Many dislike public speaking, and some flat-out dread it, even to the point of fearing it more than death. You take the podium and your hands clam up, your voice weakens and cracks, and your mind goes blank. Conquer your fear of public speaking today! With powerful presentation skills,... Read more

Overcoming Procrastination for Sales Professionals

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Selling is one of the most difficult professions. Who wants to be in a line of work where the typical response is "no?" Who wants to encounter rejection day in and day out? Effective salespeople face this scenario all the time. Hence, it's understandable when, on occasion, procrastination arises. Yet, with everyday techniques that anyone can... Read more

Managing Time by Managing E-mail

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

E-mail has become the great blessing—as well as the great curse—of today's career professionals. Each of us is diluted by more messages coming in than we can comfortably respond to. How can we better manage e-mail so as to better manage our day and our time? In this compelling session, professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has written such... Read more

Markets Never Forget (But People Do)

By: Ken Fisher

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Templeton, legendary investor, was famous for saying, "The four most dangerous words in investing are, 'This time it's different.'" He knew that though history doesn't repeat, not exactly, history is an excellent guide for investors. In Markets Never Forget But People Do: How Your Memory Is Costing You Money and Why This Time Isn't... Read more

Managing Multiple Priorities

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have too many priorities competing for your time and attention both at work and at home? When did life get so complicated?Increasingly, each of us finds ourselves juggling too many tasks with too little time or resources to get it all done. In this insightful program, veteran professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson offers new... Read more

SCOTUS Hears GPS Tracking Case

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Can the government track a suspect using a GPS device without a warrant? That question was at the center of a high-profile case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Judy Woodruff discusses the oral arguments in the case with the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle. Read more

Back to Work

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future business.” He explains how we got into the current... Read more

Stuffed

By: Hank Cardello & Doug Garr

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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How to Create a Commanding Presence

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Larry Iverson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you ever wonder how to become more influential? Would you like to know how to get people to instantly accept and like you? What if you knew the verbal and nonverbal tactics that immediately give you credibility? Well now you can! You can start using these strategies today to build a winning, commanding presence. Dr. Larry Iverson will guide... Read more

The Innovator's Cookbook

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Johnson, an acknowledged bestselling leader on the subject of innovation, gathers—for a foundational text on the subject of innovation—essays, interviews, and cutting-edge insights by such exciting field leaders as Peter Drucker, Richard Florida, Eric Von Hippel, Dean Keith Simonton, Arthur Koestler, John Seely Brown, and Marshall Berman.... Read more

Laws of Prospecting

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Ryan Chamberlin

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated speaker, trainer, and author Ryan Chamberlin shares the vital knowledge that allowed him to earn millions when he was still in his twenties. Taken from specific chapters in his book titled Now You Know:Why Some Succeed and Others Fail…, Laws of Prospecting will teach you there is no shortage of prospects, but you do have a shortage... Read more

Keynes Hayek

By: Nicholas Wapshott

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics... Read more

Getting Things Done

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The phrase "getting things done" is almost a rallying cry for a generation of career professionals striving to make their mark on the world. In this program, Jeff Davidson, author of 56 mainstream books, 260 e-books, and 24 iPhone apps, discusses the nuances of what he does to maintain high personal productivity hour after hour, day after day.... Read more

Getting Articles Published

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Jeff Davidson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A book of 12 to 16 chapters should yield at least 12 to 16 articles that can be sold, distributed, or posted on the web and converted to e-books, monographs, white papers, zines, and executive letters. In this 57 minute discussion, prolific author and speaker Jeff Davidson helps you to easily derive articles from your book and have them... Read more

Business Banter Vocabulary System

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Liv Montgomery

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine building your business vocabulary and having fun at the same time. Now you can! Verbalicious takes a fun, entertaining approach to language. With Liv Montgomery as your verbal tour guide, you’ll expand your word base and develop verbal prowess for business situations almost effortlessly. Other vocabulary programs are boring, and often... Read more

The Story Of Economics

By: Michael Blastland

Narrated by: Michael Blastland

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4, three-part factual series, first broadcast on 23 March 2011. Michael Blastland presents ‘The Story of Economics’, and lays out the history of economic ideas, to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. Read more

Publicity Tactics

By: Marcia Yudkin

Narrated by: Marcia Yudkin

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Get noticed, grow your brand and gain market share. It's hard to beat the impact of appearing on radio or TV, in newspapers and magazines-or on a popular podcast or blog. Discover how to skyrocket your credibility and visibility and boost your sales from publicity. Having schemed up media appearances for herself and clients for nearly 30 years,... Read more

The Mackay MBA of Selling in The Real World

By: Harvey Mackay

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Harvey Mackay is a legend-and now he's back with the sum total of decades of sales know-how, teaching go-getters how to make the sale and hit the numbers, day in and day out. His advice is rooted in road-tested, real-world experiences and include new tips on the Web, LinkedIn and Facebook. As a lifelong student of the sales game, Mackay has... Read more

Strategic Marketing

By: Marcia Yudkin

Narrated by: Marcia Yudkin

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Become the master of your business fate. With proper attention to marketing strategy, success is no accident. Time spent planning where you want your business to go and the customers you prefer to serve pays off. Discover also how to earn and keep trust, build a reputation, amplify sales and set your course for profit. Despite today's world of... Read more