Business audiobooks

The Soros Lectures

By: George Soros

Narrated by: George Soros

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 2009, George Soros delivered a series of lectures at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, which provided a broad overview of his thoughts on economics and politics. Soros has achieved great and consistent success in the world of finance but has also contributed to the broader world of philosophy and human rights... Read more

Your Brain at Work

By: David Rock

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects,... Read more

Make It in America

By: Andrew N. Liveris

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We used to make things in this country. We were the dazzling innovators, the undisputed world economic leaders, and with our manufacturing engine driving the process, we built a solid, high-achieving middle class and a thriving economy. Now, thanks to policies that are either indifferent—or downright hostile—to manufacturing, we're at the brink... Read more

Life, on the Line

By: Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by... Read more

Ultimate Customer Service

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Mark Sanborn

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Exceptional customer service is no accident! Great service providers know what to do, teach their employees how to do it, and consistently deliver first-class service. Now, you can get the world's top customer service authors to coach you and your team into excellence. Bring the exceptional customer service of Starbucks, Nordstrom's, or the Ritz... Read more

Lost and Found

By: Geneen Roth

Narrated by: Geneen Roth

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their... Read more

You Can't Fire Everyone

By: Hank Gilman

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical, entertaining handbook for people who never expected to be bosses.

Plenty of managers never asked, expected, or trained to be put in charge of other people. But when it happens, these accidental bosses often find that learning to manage is like learning to swim by being dropped into the deep end of the pool.

Hank Gilman knows what... Read more

We

By: Rudy Karsan & Kevin Kruse

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in a new world where work and life are blended as opposed to balanced, and feelings of financial security and entitlement are a thing of the past. Job satisfaction is at a record low, a crisis with far-reaching impact. For businesses, a disengaged workforce means lower levels of productivity and service, and ultimately lower growth and... Read more

Empire State Mind

By: Zach O'Malley Greenburg

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"I'm not a businessman-I'm a business, man."
--Jay-Z

Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as just another celebrity/mega-star. The reality is, no matter what you think Jay-Z is, he first and foremost a business. And as much as Martha Stewart or Oprah, he has turned himself into a lifestyle.

You can wake up to the local... Read more

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

""We're far more accustomed to—and comfortable with—seeing women portrayed as victims of war who deserve our sympathy rather than as resilient survivors who demand our respect…"" Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s fearful rise to... Read more

One Simple Idea

By: Stephen Key

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Turn your great idea into millions-without lifting a finger! Yes, a good idea is enough to build a fortune! Too many people think production, marketing, and distribution are essential to the entrepreneurial process. As One Simple Idea shows, you can hand these tasks off to others-and make big money in doing so. Stephen Key, a highly successful... Read more

CEO Communication Skills

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell, Dianna Booher & Larry Iverson

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to influence, persuade, or inspire your team, clients, or a room of colleagues, you need to be a skilled speaker. Are your communications skills up to par? Can you think on your feet and deliver a compelling message at any moment? Learn how to deliver presentations, lead meetings, and communicate the company vision with ease and... Read more

The Six-Figure Second Income

By: David Lindahl & Jonathan Rozek

Narrated by: David Lindahl & Jonathan Rozek

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Proven methods for building an online income stream

Maybe you dream of making money with an online business, but haven’t tried so far because you’d have to quit your current job and enter the risky world of Internet startups. Or because you think you need lots of capital and way too much time. Or you think the field is maxed out and overcrowded.... Read more

The Man Who Sold America

By: Arthur W. Schultz & Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

MEET THE MAN BEHIND SOME OF OUR BEST KNOWN BRANDS
We live in an age of mass persuasion. Leaders and institutions of every kind—public and private, large
and small—must compete in a rowdy marketplace of images and messages seeming to come at us from all directions—in print, on radio and television, and on the Web.

It wasn’t always so. In the early... Read more

Fast Profits in Hard Times - Abridged

By: Jordan E. Goodman

Narrated by: Jordan E. Goodman

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In FAST PROFITS IN HARD TIMES, Jordan Goodman provides a wealth of 5-minute tips for earning extra income the easy way, without unnecessary risk or extra legwork. Find out about:
• 100 stocks that offer free premiums if you reinvest their dividends
• How to profit from Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) quickly and safely
• Tax liens, which can... Read more

The Money Class

By: Suze Orman

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to create your New American Dream?

Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, says it’s time for a serious reconsideration of the American Dream—what promise it still holds, what aspects are in need of revision, and how it must be refashioned to fit our lives so that we can once again have... Read more

The Social Animal

By: David Brooks

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a... Read more

Enchantment

By: Guy Kawasaki

Narrated by: Dan John Miller, Ellen Archer & Guy Kawasaki

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal. Enchantment can happen during a retail... Read more

High Noon

By: Karen Southwick

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, a little upstart named Sun was making waves in the high-tech industry with its groundbreaking workstation technology, even as early competitors dismissed the company as not worth losing sleep over. Since then, Sun Microsystems has become a formidable presence in the industry, making its own rules and taking no prisoners, and is... Read more

Making It in High Heels 2

By: Kimberlee MacDonald

Narrated by: Kimberlee MacDonald

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Dealing with adversity is the toughest thing you will ever go through in life. You may think you are the only one dealing with it, but you aren’t. These women have all achieved incredible success against the odds. Learn from the best mentors because they want you to succeed too!

Making It in High Heels is never easy, so carry your own support... Read more

Innovation is Everybody's Business

By: Robert B Tucker

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Innovation isn’t something you do after you get your work done. It’s how you do your work.

Organizations all over the world are shedding jobs in record numbers. Yet today they are desperately in need of people with the abilities and skills to think ahead of the curve, delight customers, motivate colleagues, slash costs, and achieve unconventional... Read more

Schnelligkeit durch Vertrauen

By: Stephen M.R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill & Ingrid...

Narrated by: Gisa Bergmann & Heiko Grauel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Vertrauen ist einer der Schlüsselfaktoren erfolgreicher Unternehmensführung. Covey räumt auf mit der Vorstellung, Vertrauen lasse sich wirtschaftlich nicht messen. Er zeigt anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen und Fakten, dass erst Vertrauen den ökonomischen Erfolg nachhaltig sichert. "Vertrauen hat man oder eben nicht." - Ein fataler Irrtum!... Read more

Tell to Win

By: Peter Guber

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Today everyone—whether they know it or not—is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders, customers, and employees to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it. And this book tells you how to do both.

Historically,... Read more

Poke the Box

By: Seth Godin

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We send our kids to school and obsess about their test scores, their behavior, and their ability to fit in.We post a help wanted ad and look for experience, famous colleges, and a history of avoiding failure.We invest in companies based on how they did last quarter, not on what they’re going to do tomorrow.So why are we surprised when it all... Read more