Business audiobooks

Hacking Work

By: Josh Klein & Bill Jensen

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Why work harder than you have to? One manager kept his senior execs happy by secretly hacking into the company’s database, providing them the reports they needed in one-third the time. Hacking is a powerful solution to every stupid procedure, tool, rule, and process we are forced to endure. Benevolent hackers are saving business from itself.

It... Read more

Credit 911

By: Rodney Anderson

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Truth is, there’s no secret to spending and saving wisely. Rather, living a financially secure lifestyle is as simple as taking time-proven steps today to solve past credit problems, while also preparing for a financially successful future. Others have done it. Anyone can do it. So can you. You just need someone to show you how. In Credit 911,... Read more

Think Twice

By: Michael J. Mauboussin

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Stop Yourself Before You Make Another Costly Decision

No one intentionally makes bad decisions. Yet we make them all the time. In fact, some of the worst disasters in recent history—the collapse of major investment banks, the global financial meltdown—were the result of seemingly reasonable decisions made by a lot of smart people. How does... Read more

Carrots and Sticks

By: Ian Ayres

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? If you’ve ever tried to meet a goal and came up short, the problem may not have been that the goal was too difficult or that you lacked the discipline to succeed. From giving up... Read more

Aftershock

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the... Read more

The Coke Machine

By: Michael Blanding

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since its "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world's beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well, making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and Coca-Cola the world's... Read more

Fleißige Frauen arbeiten, schlaue steigen auf

By: Barbara Schneider

Narrated by: Sonngard Dressler & Heiko Grauel

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Frauen haben in den letzten Jahren das fachliche Fundament gelegt und damit allerbeste Karriere-Voraussetzungen geschaffen. Die besseren Jobs bekommen aber nach wie vor die Männer. Leistung ohne Ende heißt für viele Frauen immer noch die Devise. Zu Karriere gehört aber längst mehr als Fleiß und Leistung. Effektives Selbstmarketing gepaart mit... Read more

What's Mine Is Yours

By: Rachel Botsman & Roo Rogers

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa), "swap trading" (Swaptree), and car sharing (Zipcar),... Read more

The Happiness Advantage

By: Shawn Achor

Narrated by: Shawn Achor

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An engaging, deeply researched guide to flourishing in a world of increasing stress and negativity—the inspiration for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time

“Powerful [and] charming . . . A book for just about anyone . . . The philosophies in this book are easily the best wire frames to build a happy and... Read more

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?

The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are... Read more

Working Together

By: Michael D. Eisner & Aaron R. Cohen

Narrated by: Michael D. Eisner & Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In Working Together, a fascinating and invaluable look at why great partnerships succeed, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner discusses how professional partnerships have contributed to his success. In addition, Eisner tells the stories of nine other highly successful business collaborations, including Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, Valentino... Read more

Islands of Profit in a Sea Red Ink

By: Jonathan L.S. Byrnes

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Top companies around the world turn to Jonathan Byrnes to figure out where the profit is. He can show them which parts of their businesses are worth expanding and which are just a drain on resources. Most astonishing, he has found that roughly 40 percent of any new client’s business is unprofitable and that profit increases of 30 percent or more... Read more

Empowered

By: Ted Schadler & Josh Bernoff

Narrated by: Josh Bernoff

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

is your company empowered for success?
You know it’s happening within your organization. Your people—using low-cost, accessible technology—are connecting with customers and building innovative new solutions. But who are these creative problem solvers? How can you lead them? How can you be one?

We call them HEROes: highly empowered and resourceful... Read more

The Man Who Lied to His Laptop

By: Corina Yen & Clifford Nass

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

STARTLING INSIGHTS INTO PERSUASION, TRUST, EMPATHY, AND TEAMWORK BASED ON REVELATIONS ABOUT HOW WE TREAT OUR COMPUTERS

The driver was insistent: “A woman should not be giving directions.” Despite the customer service rep’s reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn’t actually a woman—just a computer with a female voice—the driver (and... Read more

The Great Reflation

By: Anthony J Boeckh

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The extended bubble in the credit, housing, and financial markets created twenty-five years of artificial prosperity and wealth. The bubble has burst and much of that inflated wealth is gone.

The government has attempted to pump air back into the bubble in a financial experiment of unprecedented magnitude. The goal is to get markets up, save... Read more

Leading Change!

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Sheila Murray Bethel, Mark Sanborn & Zig Ziglar

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Leading a team through periods of rapid change can be a leader's toughest problem. Discover the secrets that leaders like Steve Jobs had to learn: that change managed correctly can result in massive quarterly growth in revenues and earnings while maintaining high morale and fiercely loyal employees. Explore the barriers to change and where they... Read more

Get Your Dream Job!

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Bob Proctor, Larry Iverson & Mark Victor Hansen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it about the top percentile of high earners in business, and how can you “join the club”? Join job and career experts as they share their experience and wisdom on how to find the perfect job and get promoted faster. Explore how to approach the job market to quickly find those hard-to-find jobs, then approach these opportunities in such a... Read more

The Lords of Strategy

By: Walter Kiechel III

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine running a business without a strategy. It would be akin to driving blindfolded, to building a house without a blueprint. Yet just fifty years ago business “plans” were mere extrapolations of the status quo, heedless of the forces that determine the fate of today’s organizations: competitive threats, customer needs and business costs. The... Read more

Good Boss, Bad Boss

By: Robert I. Sutton

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now with a new chapter that focuses on what great bosses really do. Dr. Sutton reveals new insights that he's learned since the writing of Good Boss, Bad Boss. Sutton adds revelatory thoughts about such legendary bosses as Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, A.G. Lafley, and many more, and how you can implement their techniques.

If you are a boss who... Read more

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

By: Joel Greenblatt

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will.

In The Little Book, Joel Greenblatt does more than simply set out the basic principles for successful stock market investing. He provides a "magic formula" that is easy to use and makes buying good companies at... Read more

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

By: Stan Slap

Narrated by: Stan Slap

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories about Stan Slap are so remarkable that they seem like myths: He brought a room full of top-level Microsoft managers to tears, leaving them cheering "I'm hurting, too!" After a single speech at Patagonia, the company asked him to join its board of directors. One CEO described him as "Stephen Covey meets Nine Inch Nails." All this from... Read more

Engaging Emergence

By: Peggy Holman

Narrated by: Caroline Miller

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Leading thinker and change consultant Peggy Holman provides leaders, trainers, and other agents of change grappling with disruption with a theory of "emergence" and tools for fostering it in organizations. Read more

Stress, Burnout Taking Toll

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Solman examines the rising number of employees who are being asked to do more and more for less money. This report is part of Paul Solman's ongoing reporting on Making Sense of Financial News. Read more

The Postcatastrophe Economy

By: Eric Janszen

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How bad will the current recession get? According to Eric Janszen, we could be facing an unemployment rate of over 10 percent; half of all retail stores boarded up; skeletons of unfinished buildings in our cities; and tax revenues down by 30 percent, leading to big cuts in government services. Meanwhile, inflation will keep rising as the Fed is... Read more