Business audiobooks

Reputation Rules

By: Daniel Diermeier

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Leverage your company’s most important asset!

In our lightning-fast digital age, a company can face humiliation and possibly even ruin within seconds of a negative tweet or blog post. Over the last year companies such as BP, Goldman Sachs, and Toyota have experienced serious blows to their images that could have had reduced impact if their... Read more

Instant Influence

By: Michael Pantalon

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What could be better than getting anyone to do anything in seven minutes…or less?

Finally, a revolutionary new approach scientifically proven to create instant, effective, and lasting change in anyone—coworkers, friends, family, strangers, even yourself. Use Instant Influence to:

• Motivate your employees to become more productive
• Encourage your... Read more

Shelf Life

By: Simon Parke

Narrated by: Clive Mantle

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The day I was appointed Chair of the shop union was the same day the Pope was elected. There the similarities end, however. For while his elevation took place beneath the fine art of the Sistine Chapel, with the mysterious white smoke rising, mine took place in the cold store, with nothing more mysterious than the bacon delivery and yesterday's... Read more

Bare Knuckle People Management

By: Sean O'Neil & John Kulisek

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results—and make you, the new manager, look good! In Bare Knuckle People Management authors Sean O’Neil and John Kulisek cut through the crap to show managers how to push their teams to success, not by following fluffy... Read more

Book Yourself Solid

By: Michael Port

Narrated by: Michael Port

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

According to the Small Business Administration, ninety percent of service businesses will fail within the first five years. They fail not because they don't offer great services and products, but because the owners are extremely uncomfortable with traditional marketing and sales. The result is a frustrated, isolated, and overwhelmed business... Read more

Built to Sell

By: John Warrillow

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A business parable about how to create a start-up that won't trap you when you want to sell it.

According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own.

To... Read more

The Little Book of Alternative Investments

By: Phil DeMuth & Ben Stein

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you underwhelmed with the way your traditional 60/40 portfolio has been performing lately and wondering why? Do you suspect there might be better ways to invest your money, but aren't sure what they are? What about all those "alternative" investments you keep hearing so much about in the media, such as commodities, real estate, emerging... Read more

Heartfelt Marketing

By: Jacquie Jordan

Narrated by: Jacquie Jordan

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartfelt Marketing is for the self-inspired entrepreneur who understands their skill set; however, promotion isn’t their forte.
– Learn how to get out of your own way and generate business by being of service to others
– Release the 5 Pitfalls that spell doom for your revenue.
– Discover how the language and intention make a HUGE difference in... Read more

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

By: John D. Rockefeller

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) founded the Standard Oil Company, revolutionized the oil business and, after adjusting for inflation, may have been the richest person in world history. Rockefeller's business practices were fiercely condemned, but he and Standard Oil had a policy of not responding to the attacks of critics. Random Reminiscences... Read more

The Way to Wealth

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin (1706-1790) grew rich publishing Poor Richard's Almanack, under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, from 1732 to 1758. Besides calendar and weather information, Franklin's almanacs had many sayings, proverbs, and aphorisms. A selection of these sayings was added to the 1757 almanac as "The Way to Wealth", a speech by an old man to buyers at... Read more

Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Reaper

By: Christopher Crennen

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

McCormick (1809-1884) demonstrated a workable reaper in 1831 and spent the rest of his life improving the reaper, and expanding the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company with sales across the United States and around the world. McCormick's reapers had profound effects on the alleviation of U.S. and world hunger.aspenleafmedia.com Read more

Why We Buy, Updated and Revised Edition

By: Paco Underhill

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture—full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world's emerging markets. New material includes: – The latest trends in... Read more

Bingsop's Fables

By: Stanley Bing

Narrated by: Gil Schwartz

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments.”—USA Today“Bing delivers his works smoothly, projecting tones of deadpan sarcasm and animated mockery befitting the often irreverent content.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom celebrated business writer and Fortune columnist Stanley Bing, the bestselling author of What Would Machiavelli... Read more

Tangled Webs

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic.

Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the... Read more

Idea Man

By: Paul Allen

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.

In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and... Read more

What Women Want

By: Paco Underhill

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Paco Underhill, the author of the hugely successful Why We Buy and Call of the Mall, reports on the growing importance of women in everybody’s marketplace—what makes a package, product, space, or service “female friendly.” Underhill offers a tour of the world’s marketplace—with shrewd observations and practical applications to help everybody... Read more

Smarter, Faster, Cheaper

By: David Sitemen Garland

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

We're in "wild west" times for business. Thanks to social media and new technologies, customer-brand relationships are suddenly wide open and up for grabs. Big players are getting taken down, while upstarts are starting up, gunning for market share, and outmaneuvering the Goliaths. So, just when a rethink might seem in order, why do so many act... Read more

Plastic

By: Susan Freinkel

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realize it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist... Read more

Online Business Promotion

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Liv Montgomery

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Worldwide, there are over six million online searches every month for “eCommerce” with over thirty-three million search results. In other words, there are a whole lot of people and businesses looking to make money through online business promotion—eCommerce. At no other time in history has it been easier for anyone and everyone to market to the... Read more

Money from Anywhere

By: Joe Vitale, Pat O'Bryan & Marlon Sanders

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio book will show you, step by step, how to quickly and easily set up and run your own profitable online business and "make money from anywhere."

Best selling author Pat O'Bryan (Your Portable Empire), along with multiple best-seller Dr. Joe Vitale (Attract Money Now), Marlon Sanders (Internet Marketing Superstar), Connie Green (Huge... Read more

Captains of Industry

By: Paul Allen

Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, talks about his memoir, "Idea Man." Read more

The Idea Hunter

By: Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer & William Bole

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Breakaway ideas come to those who are in the habit of looking for them." —from the Introduction
Ideas are arguably the most valuable asset in an information-based economy. But how do you find the best ideas—the kind that can boost careers, change organizations, and ramp up the value of projects? Why do some people seem to come up with these... Read more

Krugman on Obama Deficit Plan

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A week after Representative Paul Ryan released the Republican 2012 budget blueprint, President Obama offered his plan for reducing the deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years. Jeffrey Brown discusses the competing visions with Princeton University's Paul Krugman and the American Action Forum's Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Read more

More than Enough - Abridged

By: Dave Ramsey

Narrated by: Dave Ramsey

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his first bestseller, Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey taught us how to eliminate debt from our lives. Now in More Than Enough, he gives us the keys to building wealth while also creating a successful, united family. Drawing from his years of work with thousands of families and corporate employees, Ramsey presents the ten keys that guarantee... Read more