Business audiobooks

The 25 Most Common Sales Mistakes And How To Avoid Them!

By: Stephan Schiffman

Narrated by: Mike Ferreri

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Noted sales trainer, Stephan Schiffman, the famous master of cold calls and sales techniques, provides bite-sized tips on correcting common sales problems, using the same nuggets-of-advice format as in many of his other books! Read more

Tracking & Controlling Costs

By: Mohamed Hussein

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the 25 keys to understand how financial reporting and cash flow become the essential tools to determining success or failure.

Tracking & Controlling Costs is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a reference series easily accessible to all businesspersons, from first-level managers to the executive suite. The 12-volume series... Read more

Business Financing

By: Dileep Rao & Richard Cardozo

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the 25 keys to find and secure the funds to start a business and keep it going—including whether to go public, and if so, when.

Business Financing is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a reference series easily accessible to all businesspersons, from first-level managers to the executive suite. The 12-volume series is written by... Read more

Nail The Job Interview! - Abridged

By: Caryl Rae Krannich & Ron Krannich

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Interviews don't just count—they count the most!

Regardless of how well you write resumes and letters, conduct research, and network for job leads, you simply must do well in the face-to-face job interview if you are to get the job offer. But conducting an effective interview is easier said than done. Your initial surge of joy in getting the... Read more

How to Create Chemistry With Anyone: Spark it Fast - Abridged

By: Leil Lowndes

Narrated by: Leil Lowndes

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why do you feel an instant attraction to one person and not another? And how can you help ensure that a connection lasts? Although chemistry affects nearly every relationship, few people understand it—what initiates it, what destroys it, and what makes it last forever. In How to Create Chemistry With Anyone, communications expert and... Read more

Get A Raise In 7 Days - Abridged

By: Caryl Rae Krannich

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How do you approach your boss and a raise or promotion? When should you meet, what should you say, and how do you present your best case to your employer? Here’s the step-by-step audiobook that outlines exactly what to do and say in order to get raises and promotions, filled with practical tips on how you can best talk money to power and come... Read more

The Lazy Person's Guide To Investing - Abridged

By: Paul B. Farrell

Narrated by: Nick Summers

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Popular CBS Marketwatch columnist Farrell provides a thoroughly enjoyable and straightforward look at what he sees as "the future of investing"-"simple lazy portfolios that'll work for anyone and are easy to understand." He provides three different model portfolios based on one simple formula: "rock-solid, easy-to-understand asset allocation... Read more

How To Connect In Business In 90 Seconds or Less - Abridged

By: Nicholas Boothman

Narrated by: Nicholas Boothman

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicholas Boothman, author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, brings his innovative system of forging instant connections into the workplace.

Whether you're standing around the water cooler or giving a formal presentation, success in business depends on creating and maintaining effective relationships. Dig into the fundamentals... Read more

The 2-Second Commute - Abridged

By: Christine Durst & Michael Haaren

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 2-Second Commute is the perfect audiobook for anyone who wishes to work from home as a virtual assistant, providing everything from administrative support to high-end consulting via email, phone and fax. Predicted to be a $130 billion industry by 2008, virtual assistants don't commute, they set their own hours, and they get to spend time... Read more

Speak Without Fear - Abridged

By: Ivy Naistadt

Narrated by: Ivy Naistadt

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For many of us, public speaking is, at best, a chore marked by great anxiety; and, at worst, a potential career stopper. No matter how anxious you are about going before an audience—any audience, whether it’s 1 or 1,000—Speak Without Fear will give you the tools to speak powerfully and persuasively. You will identify the degree and type of... Read more

101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers - Abridged

By: Caryl Rae Krannich

Narrated by: Beth MacDonald

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

People fear public speaking more than any other situation. The reluctance to get up in front of an audience is often a major impediment to career advancement and personal development. However, this fear can be overcome.

Caryl Rae Krannich Ph.D, author of over 40 business and personal development books, reveals the 101 secrets to become an... Read more

Time Management In An Instant - Abridged

By: Karen Leland & Keith Bailey

Narrated by: Kate Pippinger

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In today's hurly-burly work environment, many businesspeople find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goals and outcomes. One study by the Families and Work Institute found that one third of Americans are overworked and more than 50 percent of those... Read more

How to Re-Spark and Keep Chemistry In Your Relationship Forever: Make it Last - Abridged

By: Leil Lowndes

Narrated by: Leil Lowndes

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With her ability to deliver cutting-edge information in a lighthearted style, bestselling author Leil Lowndes has made a career of teaching the secrets of successful interaction. In How to Re-Spark and Keep Chemistry In Your Relationship Forever, based on the latest findings in cognitive science, Leil teaches listeners with easy communication... Read more

How To Win Any Negotiation - Abridged

By: Robert Mayer

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Today’s super negotiator has to be a versatile problem solver, seeking hard-bargain results with a soft touch. With punch and panache, Bob Mayer shows you how to make the grade, revealing powerful negotiating tools drawn from a unique blend of sources, including: • Recent advances in psychology, linguistics, trial advocacy, sales, and... Read more

Inc. Yourself - Abridged

By: Judith H. McQuown

Narrated by: Alyson Scadron Branner

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than two decades ago, when former Wall Street portfolio analyst Judith H. McQuown first sat down to write the inaugural edition of Inc. Yourself, the incorporation of a small company was a fairly simple procedure undertaken by relatively few refugees from the then-burgeoning safe haven of big-time corporate America. But while the appeal and... Read more

The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked… - Abridged

By: Peter Veruki

Narrated by: Peter Veruki, Nona Pipes & Ken Kliban

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why do you want this job? Why should I hire you? Why do you want to leave your current job?

Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good job is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career and human resources... Read more

Financial Statements - Abridged

By: Thomas R. Ittelson

Narrated by: Chris Ensweiler

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ittelson's master work will give you that firm grasp of "the numbers" necessary for business success. Financial Statements is a perfect introduction to financial accounting for non-financial managers, stock-market investors, undergraduate business and MBA students, lawyers, lenders, entrepreneurs, and more. Most introductory finance and... Read more

Fast track masterclass to exam success

By: Annie Lawler

Narrated by: Annie Lawler

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A 7 point guide to planning, preparation, exam techniques and overcoming exam nerves A 7 point guide to planning, preparation, exam techniques and overcoming exam nervesFor many of us examinations can be challenging and somewhat nerve-wracking and for others, a complete nightmare. How come some people seem to sail through... Read more

Human Action, Third Revised Edition

By: Ludwig von Mises

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 42 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ludwig von Mises is to economics what Albert Einstein is to physics, and Human Action is his greatest work. It is a systematic study that covers every major topic in the science of economics. It is also one of the most convincing indictments of socialism and statism ever penned. When it first appeared in English in 1949, it was a sensation, the... Read more

Napoleon Hill – The Road to Riches

By: Napoleon Hill & Greg S. Reid

Narrated by: Napoleon Hill & Greg S. Reid

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Napoleon Hill, the forefather of the modern personal development movement and author of the motivational classic, Think and Grow Rich, has inspired millions with his words and thoughts on discovering success and abundance within oneself. It is a message that continues to resonate, but few have ever had the opportunity to hear the “success”... Read more

Practically Radical

By: William C. Taylor

Narrated by: Loren Lester

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most powerful and instructive change manual you’ll ever read. It will persuade and inspire you to change your business, your work, and maybe your life.”
—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of A Whole New Mind In Practically Radical, William C. Taylor, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mavericks at Work offers a refreshing, rigorous... Read more

The Price Everything

By: Eduardo Porter

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. Americans hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants to fix the roof or mow the lawn and vote... Read more

Super Rich

By: Russell Simmons & Chris Morrow

Narrated by: Black Ice

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The visionary entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller Do You! delivers a powerful guide to spiritual enlightenment.  Being "super rich" has little to do with living in a mansion and everything to do with living in a state of consciousness where you are equally connected to the world and your highest self. While it can be ... Read more

Never Lose Again

By: Steven Babitsky & James J. Mangraviti, Jr.

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Most Practical Book on Negotiating Ever Written

Negotiating is an art. It's complicated. To become an exceptional negotiator traditionally requires years of experience in negotiations. But that doesn't mean that most people can't quickly and easily learn proven negotiating skill and techniques if someone shows them what to do. This book does... Read more