Business audiobooks

How Mindfulness Can Add To Your Well-Being

By: Diana Winston

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

One thing that shows up in the research across the board is that people who practice mindfulness report being happier. What mindfulness does is to shift and change our attitude, and create a way of being in the world with more peace and balance instead of being at the mercy of these ups and downs of life. Read more

Has Fed Done All It Can?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the central bank is prepared to take new action to help the sagging economy if needed. Jeffrey Brown talks to economists Paul Krugman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin about whether the Fed is doing enough to lift the economy. Read more

Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google

By: Aaron Goldman

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Want Market Share? Google It!

“Google is a once-in-a-generation company. Aaron Goldman has written an essential book that goes beyond telling us how Google became so important to explaining why the revolution it’s leading will affect everyone in media and marketing.”

-Brian Morrissey, Digital Editor, Adweek

“An insightful tour of the elements that... Read more

The Sugar King of Havana

By: John Paul Rathbone

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swaths of the... Read more

Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green

By: Shel Horowitz & Jay Conrad Levinson

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

These Two Masters of Marketing Want to Pass Their Most Powerful Success Strategies on to You!

Learn to:

• Slash marketing costs and boost profits by making your business as green and ethical as possible
• Easily turn your customers, suppliers, and even competitors into your unofficial sales force
• Understand how to turn business acquaintances into... Read more

Conquer the Chaos

By: Clate Mask, Michael E. Gerber & Scott Martineau

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

You started your business for the freedom and adventure of being your own boss, but now you feel buried by your business. So many entrepreneurs experience this, and some have given up the hope of ever finding the money, time, and control they thought business ownership would bring them. But take heart! You can meet the challenges, reclaim your... Read more

Capitalism 4.0

By: Anatole Kaletsky

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Capitalism was not destroyed by the crisis, but it was irrevocably changed. This provocative audio book shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown of 2007-2009 are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system. This system will continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and... Read more

Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

By: Brian Halligan, David Meerman Scott & Bill Walton

Narrated by: Brian Halligan, Bill Walton & David Meerman Scott

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

THE GRATEFUL DEAD—Rock Legends, Marketing Pioneers

The Grateful Dead broke almost every rule in the music industry book. They encouraged their fans to record shows and trade tapes; they built a mailing list and sold concert tickets directly to fans; and they built a their business model on live concerts, not album sales. By cultivating a... Read more

Top Emotional Selling

By: Ingo Vogel

Narrated by: Gabi Franke & Heiko Grauel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Was ist das Erfolgsrezept der Spitzenverkäufer? Überzeugende Produkte allein genügen nicht - es kommt auf die richtige Verkaufsstrategie an. Ingo Vogels Konzept "Top Emotional Selling" beruht auf Erkenntnissen des Neuromarketing und des Neurolinguistischen Programmierens (NLP). Verkaufen mit Herz und Verstand: Der Verkäufer als Gefühls- und... Read more

Olives & Omens

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A food writer tells correspondent Paul Solman about parallels between Greece's crushing economic problems and its departure from simple, humble culinary roots. Read more

Fascinate

By: Sally Hogshead

Narrated by: Sally Hogshead

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A newly revised and updated edition of the influential guide that explores one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and influence behavior—fascination—and how businesses, products, and ideas can become irresistible to consumers.In an oversaturated culture defined by limited time and focus, how do we draw attention to our messages, our... Read more

It's Not Just Who You Know

By: Tommy Spaulding

Narrated by: Dustin Rubin

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In It’s Not Just Who You Know, Tommy Spaulding—the former CEO of Up With People—has written the new How to Win Friends and Influence People for the twenty-fist century. Success—in business and in life—is all about relationships.  In this powerful guide to reaching out to others, Spaulding takes Dale Carnegie’s classic philosophy to the next... Read more

The Little Book Bull Moves (Updated and Expanded)

By: Peter D. Schiff

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of declining stock prices, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and a weakening dollar, the American economy is poised for a prolonged contraction and U.S. stocks will suffer a protracted bear market, so predicted seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff in his 2008 bestseller, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear... Read more

Long-Term Joblessness

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Solman talks to people who have been out of work for 99 weeks or longer as part of his ongoing series on making sense of financial news. Read more

Confessions of a GP

By: Benjamin Daniels

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving)... Read more

Persuasive Selling and Power Negotiation

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Brian Tracy & Zig Ziglar

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything is negotiable. Unfortunately, most people are poor negotiators, and the number one reason why can be traced back to early childhood. This audio series can help you change that. Whether you are trying to influence or negotiate with your biggest client, boss, spouse, or even one of your children, you need to be skillful. This program... Read more

Führen unter neuen Bedingungen

By: Stephen R. Covey, Bob Whitmann & Ingrid Pross-Gill

Narrated by: Gabi Franke & Heiko Grauel

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In schwierigen Zeiten zeigt sich, wer wirklich gute Führungsfähigkeiten besitzt. Erfolgreich ist, wer sich an Prinzipien hält, die uns selbst in ungewissen Zeiten Sicherheit geben. Unternehmen sehen sich vier großen Gefahren gegenüber: Misserfolg bei der UmSetzung, Vertrauenskrise, Verlust der Fokussierung und Angst. Um diese Gefahren zu... Read more

The Now Habit at Work

By: Neil Fiore

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Do you want to be more productive and enjoy your work more fully? The Now Habit at Work, written by top performance expert Neil Fiore, reveals how true time management goes hand-in-hand with greater ease, well-being, and success in business and life. Whatever your occupation, Fiore’s proven tools will empower you to overcome procrastination and... Read more

I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This

By: Julie Jansen

Narrated by: Margaret Strom

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO KICK-STARTING A CAREER YOU LOVE IN ANY JOB MARKET

THERE IS AN EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTRY, one that continues to spread despite fluctuations in the economy. A dishearteningly large number of people dislike what they do for a living. In this revised and updated edition of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This,... Read more

Zilch

By: Nancy Lublin

Narrated by: Nancy Lublin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"What we have to offer can be boiled down to one concept: the power of zero. We get more done with less of just about everything, from our people to our workplaces to our vendors. Zilch is what drives us to be more innovative, more passionate, more creative. So stop whining about your budget cuts and start asking yourself what you'd do if you... Read more

Long Fuse, Big Bang

By: Eric Haseltine

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Haseltine has applied discoveries about the human brain to his work in fields as diverse as aerospace, entertainment, and national defense. And all too often he has come up against short-term thinking that focuses on putting out fires instead of long-term thinking that can create explosive opportunities and open up new markets.



Our brains... Read more

ProBlogger

By: Darren Rowse & Chris Garrett

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Turn Your Passion for Blogging into Extra Revenue
There are no magic wands, hidden tricks, or secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success in the blogging world, but with the help of this audio book, you can get there. Written by two leading authorities on creating and monetizing blogs, ProBlogger carefully lays out the steps you need... Read more

The New Articulate Executive

By: Granville N. Toogood

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Classic Guide to Business Communications . . . Updated for a New Generation of Media-Savvy Leaders

Even with the latest high-tech tools and communication options, the simple truth is this: You need to look, act, and sound like a leader to succeed in today's world. According to top executive coach Granville Toogood, “Wonderful things happen... Read more

The Zeroes

By: Randall Lane

Narrated by: Randall Lane

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world. Among Randall's eye-popping true stories:



—How fortunes were made, from the million-dollar score made in the thirty-minute gap between... Read more