Business audiobooks

The 2020 Workplace

By: Jeanne C. Meister & Karie Willyerd

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What companies need to know—and do—to win and hold on to tomorrow's best employees The workplace of the future is being shaped today by Web 2.0—a collection of breakthrough social media technologies—and by the Millennial Generation, people born between 1977 and 1997. The convergence of these emerging workplace trends has created a generation of... Read more

In Deep Water

By: Peter Lehner

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion followed by a massive... Read more

Interview with Sandra Day O'Connor

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff speaks to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about her efforts to improve literacy for students, judicial elections and today's court. Read more

Producing Fashion

By: Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Editor & Various

Narrated by: Beth Richmond

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Each essay in Producing Fashion is presented in full and has been selected from the original print edition. The essays answer the following questions and more:How has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in... Read more

American Colossus

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.

The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth... Read more

Comebacks at Work

By: Kathleen Kelley Reardon & Christopher T. Noblet

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A stimulating, thought-provoking book that lets you know how to break free of negative behavior, take control of office politics, and prevent difficult, repetitive, and avoidable situations. Reardon—a frequent HuffingtonPost contributor and professor at the Marshall School of Business—arms readers with the tools they need to take control of... Read more

Thinking for a Change

By: Michael J. Gelb

Narrated by: Michael J. Gelb

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael J. Gelb is the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He shows you how to rethink the way you think by helping you discover your natural ability to create, communicate, and lead in every area of your life—from designing a dinner party to mapping out your life goals,... Read more

Attention! This Book Will Make You Money

By: Jim F. Kukral

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s the one common factor among entrepreneurs who create and grow successful online businesses today? Attention. They know what kind they need. They know how to get it. They know how to maintain it. And they know how to make it pay over the long term. Want your business to get the high quality customer engagement it needs to thrive?... Read more

What I Didn't Learn in Business School

By: Trish Gorman Clifford & Jay Barney

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state- of-the-art strategy tools to... Read more

The Truth About Leadership

By: James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In these turbulent times when the very foundations of organizations and societies are being shaken, leaders need to move beyond the pessimistic predictions, the trendy fads, and the simplistic solutions. They need to turn to what’s real and what’s proven, to understand what the evidence tells us about how exemplary leaders get extraordinary... Read more

Making Our Democracy Work

By: Justice Stephen Breyer

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America's highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique... Read more

Justice Breyer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer talks to Jeffrey Brown about his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, the role and responsibilities of the high court, and the shift in dynamics that a new justice can bring. Read more

Buy-In

By: John P. Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

You believe in a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it, hoping for enthusiastic support. Instead, you get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets. Before you know what’s hit you, your idea is dead, shot down.It doesn’t have to be this way, say John... Read more

Igniting Your Soul at Work

By: Robert Rabbin

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we fill the world with contemporary sages and kick-ass saints, who are as adept at surrendering themselves to authenticity as they are at innovating initiatives of breathtaking power? Igniting Your Soul at Work provides some insightful answers to that question.This isn't your ordinary type of leadership book, manual, or mandate. Robert... Read more

Where Good Ideas Come From

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? Read more

Bought and Paid For

By: Charles Gasparino

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

As the recession continues, President Barack Obama has chastised the "fat cats" who feast off government bailout money while unemployment remains high and smaller businesses struggle.



But according to business reporter Charles Gasparino, Obama is faking his outrage, and his calls for new policies to rein in banks that are "too big to fail" are... Read more

Terms of Engagement, 2nd Edition

By: Richard H. Axelrod

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Many new ways of changing organizations have become popular, replacing the old top-down change methods with methods that engage everyone in the organization. This is an extensively revised, updated, and expanded edition of one of the original and leading guides to the core principles that underlie all of these new change methods and make them... Read more

Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace

By: Dennis Reina & Michelle Reina

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The authors of the award-winning (2007 Nautilus Book Award and 2008 Axiom Book Award) and bestselling book Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace take the next step by showing how to rebuild trust in any workplace or organization after it has been broken, which is increasingly common because of harsh cutbacks, betrayal of commitments, relationship... Read more

Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace

By: Dennis Reina

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

If so, you may be experiencing the confidence-busting, commitment-breaking, energy-draining patterns consistent with broken trust. We've all been there, but few of us know how to rebuild that trust. Dennis and Michelle Reina have spent their careers researching and measuring workplace trust. In this sequel to their award-winning Trust and... Read more

Leadership Is an Art

By: Max DePree

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1989, Leadership Is an Art has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. DePree looks at leadership as a kind of stewardship, stressing the importance of building relationships, initiating ideas, and creating a lasting value system within an organization. Rather than focusing on the ”hows” of corporate life, he explains the ”whys.” He... Read more

Macrowikinomics

By: Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In their 2007 bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams taught the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, compete, and succeed in the new global marketplace. But much has changed in three years, and the principles of wikinomics are now more powerful than ever.



In this new age of networked... Read more

When Oil Peaked

By: Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak and Beyond Oil, geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the smoothed-out peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millennium—in keeping with the projections of his former colleague,... Read more

The Shadow Market

By: Eric J. Weiner

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric J. Weiner's critically acclaimed first book, What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen, was selected as one of the year's best books by Barron's magazine and one of the year's Most Enriching Reads by Kiplinger's. Weiner has demonstrated a deep... Read more

The Orange Revolution

By: Chester Elton & Adrian Gostick

Narrated by: Chester Elton & Adrian Gostick

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the enormous popularity of their bestselling The Carrot Principle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton return with a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams. The powerful research reported in The Orange Revolution reveals that the true driver of exceptional success for great companies is not a genius CEO. Breakthrough... Read more