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High-Impact Human Capital Strategy
By: Jack Phillips & Patricia Pulliam Phillips
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin & Sean Pratt
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential, but to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far-reaching. High-Impact Human Capital Strategy... Read more
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Prosperity in The Age of Decline
By: Alan Beaulieu & Brian Beaulieu
Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Protect your wealth in an age of turbulent business cycles From Brian and Alan Beaulieu—the CEO and President of ITR Economics™ (ITR)—comes Prosperity in the Age of Decline, the must-have resource for thriving in uncertain economic times. ITR has mastered long-term economic trend forecasting, with an astounding 94.7% accuracy rate over the... Read more
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The Ten Myths About Real Estate
By: Dolf de Roos
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
After the real estate crash of 2007, most people—both the so-called “experts” and amateur investors alike—thought the opportunity to make money in real estate had passed for good. However, as it turns out, just when all of those people were leaving the market, the true real estate investors were buying up as many properties as they could,... Read more
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Don't Wear Flip-Flops to Your Interview
By: Paul Powers
Narrated by: Steven Menasche
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
When it comes to getting a job, the smallest thing can trip you up. For 30 years, Dr. Paul Powers has asked thousands of successful job hunters a few basic but important questions: What do you wish someone had told you when you started your job search? What (obvious or not-so-obvious) job hunting mistake will you never make again? What job... Read more
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Why We Work
By: Barry Schwartz
Narrated by: Barry Schwartz
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.
Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.
We’ve long been taught that the... Read more
What to Do When You're New
By: Keith Rollag
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Success starts with a simple act: doing something new. It can be starting a new job or school, or moving to a new neighborhood. It can be meeting a prospective client or attending a networking event. To achieve anything in life, you have to put yourself out there, meet new people, and try new things. But sometimes we freeze. Awkwardness, worry,... Read more
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One Little Spark!
By: Marty Sklar
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
We’ve all read about the experts: the artists, the scientists, the engineers—that special group of people known as Imagineers for The Walt Disney Company. But who are they? How did they join the team? What is it like to spend a day in their shoes?Disney Legend Marty Sklar wants to give back to fans and answer these burning questions. When Marty... Read more
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$2.00 a Day
By: Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists from a leading national poverty expert who defies convention (New York Times). Edin and Shaefer tell the stories of eight families who live on what is almost unimaginable—an income that falls below the World Bank definition of poverty in the... Read more
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How to Talk to Anyone
By: Leil Lowndes
Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Leil Lowndes
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." -- Larry King"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive”What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be... Read more
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Tele-Sales
By: Kerry L. Johnson
Narrated by: Kerry L. Johnson
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Kerry Johnson is an International speaker and coach, and the bestselling author of 7 books, including, Peak Performance, and Behavioral Investing. In this audio book, he will make your telephone a profit center. Some of the skills you'll learn are: the 3 best closes to use on the phone how to book appointments what to say when someone says... Read more
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Sell Like a Professional
By: Brian Tracy
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Let Bestselling author and International speaker, Brian Tracy, teach you to Sell It Like a Professional. Let him show you how to use: · The Winning Edge · The New Model of Selling · Megacredability in Selling · Prospecting Power · Relationship Selling · Identifying Needs and Presenting Solutions ·... Read more
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Leap
By: Tess Vigeland
Narrated by: Tess Vigeland
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Until recently, Tess Vigeland was a longtime host with public radio’s Marketplace; it was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it—but she’d begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she’d been doing was no longer truly satisfying), she walked... Read more
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The Positive Organization
By: Robert E. Quinn
Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where both individually and collectively they flourish and exceed expectations.
The problem is that leaders are... Read more
JumpStart Your Growth
By: John C. Maxwell
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
John C. Maxwell helps readers maximize their potential with this 90-day guide based on his #1 New York Times bestseller, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.
Named Inc. magazine's #1 most popular leadership expert in 2014, Maxwell delivers daily inspiration and practical advice for bringing out your best, personally and professionally, one day at a... Read more
Leading Continuous Change
By: Bill Pasmore
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
It's not news that globalization and ever-faster technological innovation have increased the pace of change exponentially. Existing change models were devised to deal with individual changes, one by one, but that's not a luxury leaders have any more. Bill Pasmore, senior vice president at the Center for Creative Leadership and a professor at... Read more
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Bridging the Values Gap
By: R. Edward Freeman & Ellen R. Auster
Narrated by: Steve Carlson
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Bridging the Values Gap
Business has a values problem. It's not just spectacular public scandals like Enron (which, incidentally, had a great corporate values statement). Many companies fail to live up to the standards they set for themselves, alienating the public and leaving employees cynical and disengaged—resulting in lower productivity,... Read more
The Genius of Opposites
By: Jennifer B. Kahnweiler PhD
Narrated by: Tiffany Williams
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Better Together
FDR and Eleanor. Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. There are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. But these partnerships don't just happen. They demand wise nurturing.
The key, says bestselling author Jennifer Kahnweiler, is for... Read more
The Three Value Conversations
By: Cheryl Geoffrion, Erik Peterson, Tim Riester...
Narrated by: Jim Tedder
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The three conversations B2B sale pros must have with customers to control every step of long lead buying cycle The most successful salespeople understand that they are fundamentally storytellers. The reality is that to succeed in sales, you need to master the art of customer conversation. The best story told in the best way will always win.... Read more
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We Are Market Basket
By: Daniel Korschun & Grant Welker
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
What if a company were so treasured and trusted that people literally took to the streets—by the thousands—to save it? That company is Market Basket, a popular England supermarket chain. After long-time, CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was ousted by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas, the company's managers and rank-and-file workers struck back. Risking their... Read more
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Your Own Terms
By: Yasmin Davidds, PsyD & Ann Bidou
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
When it comes to negotiation, there is an ugly double standard. As women, if we make concessions to further a deal, we're viewed as weak. But if we play hardball, we can be seen as overly aggressive—and the strategy backfires. No wonder most women hate negotiating.In Your Own Terms, negotiation expert Yasmin Davidds helps women strike a balance,... Read more
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Louder Than Words
By: Todd Henry
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The next step in personal effectiveness, by the acclaimed author of The Accidental Creative and Die Empty.There has never been a better time to build an audience around your idea or product. But with so many people and companies clamoring for attention, it’s also more challenging than ever to do work that deeply resonates with the marketplace... Read more
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30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
By: Dan Strutzel
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A Bigger Vocabulary = A Brighter Future Words. They’re the foundation of nearly everything of value in our world. They have the power to create, and the power to destroy. The power to inspire and to terrify. The power to enlighten, and also to obscure. And, more specifically for you, they have the power to attract wealth and success,... Read more
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Pardon My Hearse
By: Allan Abbott & Greg Abbott
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and saw up close how celebrities really live and die. The Forrest Gump of the funeral industry, Abbott was everywhere celebrities died, from helping to prepare Marilyn Monroe's body for burial to standing next to Christopher Walken at Natalie Wood's... Read more
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What Color is Your Parachute? 2016
By: Richard N. Bolles
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2016 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic... Read more
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