Career Skills

Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Simon Sinek
• Narrated By Simon Sinek, Stephen Shedletzky
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Find Your Why is the follow up to Start with Why, the global best seller and the subject of the third most watched TED Talk of all time. With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, Sinek has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why.

How to Win Friends & Influence People

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Dale Carnegie
• Narrated By Andrew MacMillan
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Simon Sinek
• Narrated By Simon Sinek
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Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.

The Warren Buffett Way: 3rd Edition

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Robert Hagstrom
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye
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Warren Buffett remains one of the most sought-after and watched figures in business today. He has become a billionaire and investment sage by buying chunks of companies and holding onto them, managing them as businesses, and eventually reaping huge profits for himself and investors in Berkshire Hathaway. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind the spectacular success of living legend Warren E. Buffett.

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Donald Miller
• Narrated By Donald Miller

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services.

Zero to One

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• Narrated By Blake Masters

What valuable company is nobody building? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to 10, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from zero to one. This book is about how to get there.

Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Eric Worre
• Narrated By Eric Worre

Over twenty years ago at a company convention, Eric Worre had an "aha" moment that changed his life forever. At that event he made the decision to Go Pro and become a Network Marketing expert. Since that time, he has focused on developing the skills to do just that. In doing so, Eric has touched and been touched by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Now he shares his wisdom in a guide that will ignite your passion for this profession and help you make the decision to Go Pro and create the life of your dreams.

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Josh Kaufman
• Narrated By Josh Kaufman
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Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Kerry Patterson
• Narrated By Joseph Grenny
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Perhaps once a decade, a book comes along that transforms people's lives in a very real, measurable way. This is one of them. Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Brian Tracy
• Narrated By Brian Tracy

There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs. There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you're done with the worst thing you'll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task - but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 29 mins)
• By David Allen
• Narrated By David Allen

David Allen reads an all-new edition of his popular self-help classic for managing work-life balance in the 21st century - now updated for the new challenges facing individuals and organizations in today's rapidly changing world. Since it was first published more than 15 years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era and the ultimate book on personal organization.

Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Kristen Hadeed, Simon Sinek - foreword
• Narrated By Kristen Hadeed
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The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead - and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive, and empowered, even while they're mopping floors and scrubbing toilets.

She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Carrie Green
• Narrated By Carrie Green
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Are you ready to turn your ideas into reality and build a wildly successful business? There has never been a better time to say yes! With a computer and an Internet connection, you can get your ideas, messages, and business out there like never before and create so much success. In this book Carrie Green shows you how. Carrie started her first online business at the age of 20. She knows what it's like to be an ambitious and creative woman.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Michael E. Gerber
• Narrated By Michael E. Gerber
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In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.

Millionaire Success Habits

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Dean Graziosi
• Narrated By Mark Steinbeck

Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind, and that is to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by using easy to implement "success habits" into your daily routine. This book is not about adding more time to your day. It is about replacing those things that are not serving your future with success habits designs specifically to assist you on your journey to that better you.

Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Gary Vaynerchuk
• Narrated By Gary Vaynerchuk
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Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 26 mins)
• By Deepak Chopra
• Narrated By Deepak Chopra

Looking for a practical guide to the fulfillment of your dreams? Based on natural laws which govern all of creation, this audio shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into 7 simple, yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life.

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Chris Guillebeau
• Narrated By Chris Guillebeau, Thomas Vincent Kelly
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Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. In The $100 Startup, he tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living.

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't, Rockefeller Habits 2.0

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Verne Harnish
• Narrated By Spencer Cannon

It's been over a decade since Verne Harnish's best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't is the first major revision of this business classic. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business.

The Startup Way: How Entrepreneurial Management Transforms Culture and Drives Growth

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Eric Ries
• Narrated By Eric Ries

In The Startup Way, Eric Ries shares his insights, stories and best practices, delivering a critical toolkit to solve all business challenges. Today every company needs to get faster and smarter. Listen to The Startup Way and discover how to embrace change, survive and thrive.

Thriving in Your Career in Long Term Care Administration

• UNABRIDGED (15 mins)
• By Anne Caldwell
• Narrated By Carrie McLeod

Whether you are considering a career in long term care administration, a student, or a seasoned professional, this book contains tips to ensure a successful career long term. Whether you manage assisted living facilities, nursing homes, or home health care, you can benefit from these tips that are designed to maximize your salary while avoiding the career pitfalls that lead to a high staff turnover rate for administration and executives in this industry, as well as tips for maximizing your performance.

Write Like a Boss: From a Whisper to a Roar

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Honoree Corder, Ben Hale
• Narrated By Rob Actis

Here's how you go from writing as a hobby to a full-time author career. It's a new era for writers - one in which the gatekeepers are gone, and anyone with the passion and the talent can write and publish their story for the world to discover. But becoming a full-time author takes more than talent. It takes approaching the work as a discipline and as a business. Write Like a Boss: From a Whisper to a Roar is the guide you've been searching for to answer your questions and put you on the path to writing and publishing full time.

Productivity Mindset: A Practical Guide How to Multiply Your Productivity and Time Management for the Overwhelmed

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 9 mins)
• By Success Daily Read
• Narrated By Dean Eby

Do you feel like productivity is out of your reach? Do you struggle day in and day out to beat procrastination and finally achieve the success that you so rightly deserve? Maybe you are fed up with the tips and tricks that people try to tell you, and you want to get to the bottom of the problem, or maybe you just feel that you want something a little different. If that sounds like you then this audiobook can help!

10 fiese Fragen im Bewerbungsgespräch und ihre Antworten [10 Mean Questions in the Application Interview and their Answers]: Wie Sie sich perfekt auf das Vorstellungsgespräch vorbereiten und die Bewerbung meistern

• UNABRIDGED (16 mins)
• By Manfred Werling
• Narrated By Gitta Werling

Die Tücken im Bewerbungsgespräch! Lesen Sie in diesem Buch, auf was es bei dem Bewerbungsgespräch wirklich ankommt. Sind Sie es Leid, nach einem tollen Gespräch doch abgelehnt zu werden? In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Sie auf die schwierigsten Fragen antworten! Egal ob Berufserfahrener, Schüler oder Student.

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Donald Miller
• Narrated By Donald Miller

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services.

Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Kristen Hadeed, Simon Sinek - foreword
• Narrated By Kristen Hadeed
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead - and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive, and empowered, even while they're mopping floors and scrubbing toilets.

The Power of Your Leadership: Making a Difference with Others

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 54 mins)
• By John C. Maxwell
• Narrated By Matthew Kugler
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We all want to live lives that matter. But what is true significance? How do we define it, and how do we achieve it? In The Power of Your Leadership, Maxwell demonstrates what can come from combining personal passion and leadership in a way that goes beyond mere success. By finding like-minded people and putting them first, you can make a difference in their lives and create a united effort that leaves a lasting positive impact. Learn how to attract people to your cause, articulate your vision, and add value from your sweet spot.

Coaching for Performance, 5th Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership: Fully Revised 25th Anniversary Edition

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Whitmore
• Narrated By Richard Lyddon

The founding text of today's billion-dollar coaching industry, featuring the seminal GROW model, Coaching for Performance remains the world's best-selling coaching book. This major new edition is designed to stay ahead of the profession, with practical visuals and new material developed by the leading international performance consultants. Coaching for Performance is the institution of the coaching profession. This landmark text has now undergone the largest revision yet in its history.

Entering StartupLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Jeffrey Bussgang
• Narrated By Adam Grupper
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Many professionals aspire to work for a start-up. Yes, start-ups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or two of those. What's needed are hundreds of employees to do the day-to-day work. This practical, step-by-step guide provides an insider's analysis of various start-up roles and responsibilities, including product development, marketing, growth strategy, and sales, to help you figure out if you want to join a start-up and what to expect if you do.

Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Geoffrey A. Moore
• Narrated By James Anderson Foster

The Darwinian struggle of business keeps getting more brutal as competitive advantage gaps get narrower and narrower. Anything you invent today will soon be copied by someone else - probably better and cheaper. Many companies thrive during the early stages of their life cycle, only to fall slack during periods of inertia and die out while others surge ahead. Geoffrey Moore shows, some notable companies have figured out how to deal with Darwin in their mature years - making changes on the fly while fending off challenges from every quarter.

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Douglas B. Laney
• Narrated By Douglas B. Laney, Tim Andres Pabon

The discipline of infonomics takes you beyond thinking and talking about information as an asset to actually valuing and treating it as one. Infonomics provides the foundation and methods for quantifying information asset value and tactics for using information as your competitive edge to drive growth.

A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Mark Schwartz
• Narrated By Eric Martin

Agile, Lean, and DevOps approaches are radical game changers, providing a fundamentally different way to think about how IT fits into the enterprise, how IT leaders lead, and how IT can harness technology to accomplish the objectives of the enterprise. But honest and open conversations are not taking place between management and Agile delivery teams.

G. Michael Campbell on Ensuring Project Success

• ORIGINAL (17 mins)
• By G. Michael Campbell
• Narrated By Dave Summers

G. Michael Campbell has found that there is one fairly reliable predictor of project success: communication. If you have good, open communication with the stakeholders involved in your project, you are more likely to see the project through to completion. And vice versa. He joins us today to talk about his new book Succeeding with Senior Management, published by AMACOM, and how to translate project management speak into senior management speak.

Mark Murphy on Making Feedback Bearable

• ORIGINAL (22 mins)
• By Mark Murphy
• Narrated By Dave Summers

Handling feedback, both giving and receiving, is one of the most difficult parts of office life. Mark Murphy, author of Truth at Work, has looked into the science of why we hate hearing feedback and has some ways we can deliver even the toughest messages in a way that will get through.

Rosanne Thomas on Manners for the Modern Age

• ORIGINAL (13 mins)
• By Rosanne Thomas
• Narrated By Dave Summers

In the world of social media, we need a modern Emily Post more than ever. Enter Rosanne Thomas with her book, Excuse Me, on how to navigate the business world with poise and tact. She joins us today with some of her tips from her new book, published by AMACOM, on manners in the 21st century.

Anelia Varela on Better Business Writing

• ORIGINAL (21 mins)
• By Anelia Varela
• Narrated By Dave Summers

Most industry writing is, let's face it, boring. Anelia Varela, US director of The Writer, has made it her mission to change that. Listen in for her tips on how to make your business writing simpler, more effective, and stand out from all your competition.

Mastering Business Negotiation: A Working Guide to Making Deals and Resolving Conflict

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Roy J. Lewicki, Alexander Hiam
• Narrated By Tim Andres Pabon

Mastering Business Negotiation is a great resource for any leader or manager who needs practical strategies and ideas when conducting business negotiations. Grounded in solid research, the authors - experts in the field of business negotiation - reduce the huge volume of available information into an important audio for busy executives who need to prepare for everyday negotiations as well as for more demanding and complex negotiation situations.

Don't Pay for Your MBA: The Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Get the Business Education You Need

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Laurie Pickard
• Narrated By Marguerite Gavin

Each year, the nation's top business schools are flooded with applications from people eager to pursue their MBA dreams. But those aspirations come at a steep price. The average debt load for graduates of top business schools exceeds $100,000. Like most, author Laurie Pickard couldn't shoulder that. But she faced a dilemma: despite two degrees and a Peace Corps stint, she needed a business education to land her dream job in international development. She decided to take her education into her own hands.

Content Marketing: Internet Marketing Secrets That Will Maximize Your Profits

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By David Scott
• Narrated By Dean Eby

Content marketing works based on the idea that modern consumers are sick of being marketed to directly and are wary of anything that even begins to sound like a sales pitch. Providing them with legitimate, non-promotional content allows them to come to value your own personal brand along with the products or services you are providing to the point that when they are ready to pull the trigger and make a purchase that falls under your sphere of influence they naturally think about you first.

Summary of Angela Duckworth's Grit: Key Takeaways & Analysis

• UNABRIDGED (29 mins)
• By Sumoreads
• Narrated By Serena Travis

Don't miss out on the unforgettable wisdom of Angela Duckworth's New York Times best-selling book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. This Sumoreads summary includes key takeaways and analysis to help you quickly soak up the essence of her deep insight. The purpose of this Sumoreads Summary & Analysis is to help you decide if it's worth the time, money and effort listening to the original book (if you haven't already). This analysis is meant as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, Grit.