Audiobooks by Marcus Buckingham

Design Love In: How to Unleash the Most Powerful Force in Business

"Think about the last time you said, 'I love that.' Maybe it was about a product that exceeded expectations, a service experience that built instant loyalty, or a moment when your work brought out the best in you. That reaction isn't just emotional—it's electric. In the organization, it fuels engagement, strengthens performance, and drives lasting success. Yet most leaders don't even acknowledge it, let alone measure or make use of it. In Design Love In, leading researcher on human performance and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham reveals how love—the deep connection that makes people feel seen, valued, and inspired—isn't just a soft feeling. It's a measurable driver of performance and growth. He shows how leaders, as experience-makers, can intentionally 'design love in' to everything we do: our interactions with team members, our company policies and practices, the products and services and experiences we create for those we lead and serve. When we do this, we not only unlock deeper commitment, higher engagement, stronger customer loyalty, and lasting business results, we strengthen the human connection between us and create a better world. Featuring vivid stories of global brands, current research, and personal experiences, Buckingham illustrates that tapping into this force is not simply about being more 'warm and fuzzy'—it's a concrete strategy of utilizing loving experiences to drive behaviors to drive outcomes, and the book provides step-by-step advice on how to 'design love in' to all your actions as a leader. Love—it's the most powerful force in business. This book shows how you as a leader can unleash it."

Marcus Buckingham (Author), Marcus Buckingham (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers, Updated and Expanded (featuring “Becoming the Boss” by Linda A. Hill)

"Develop the skills and mindset to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read (or listen to) nothing else for new managers, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you get up to speed quickly, assess your team's strengths and weaknesses, and lead them to perform at their best. This book will inspire you to build trust before asserting your authority; give constructive feedback that produces positive results; gain buy-in for your ideas across the organization; navigate tough conversations and high-stakes situations; cultivate a robust network both inside and outside your organization; and lead with empathy and emotional intelligence. This updated and expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles and additional short-form pieces to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success."

Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Linda A. Hill, Marcus Buckingham (Author), Sanya Simmons, Tom Beyer (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Updated and Expanded (featuring 'Are You a Good Boss--or a Great One?' by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback)

"Bring out their best. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing people, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you earn your people's trust, build successful teams, and coach employees to help them reach their potential. This book will inspire you to balance the competing priorities of managing both up and down; identify the most common sources of conflict—and learn how to resolve them; fine-tune your management style using emotional intelligence; navigate the challenges of dispersed and hybrid teams; find—and keep—the best people; and more. HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This updated and expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success."

Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Marcus Buckingham, Tsedal Neeley (Author), Chelsea Stephens, Tom Beyer (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

"A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to: tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses compete; fuel performance by redesigning your organization's practices around feedback; learn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision making; understand; why your strategy execution isn't working—and how to fix it; lead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zone; and transform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivity."

Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business Review, Herminia Ibarra, Marcus Buckingham, Richard D'aveni (Author), David Drummond, Tamara Marston (Narrator)

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Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

"Love has been driven out of our workplaces. How do we get it back in? We're in the middle of an epidemic of stress and anxiety. Average life expectancy in the US is down. At work, less than sixteen percent of us are fully engaged. In many high-stress jobs such as distribution centers, emergency room nursing, and teaching, incidences of PTSD are higher than veterans returning from war zones. We are getting something terribly wrong. Our workplaces fail utterly to provide for or capitalize on one of our most basic human needs: our need for love. As Marcus Buckingham shows in this eye-opening, uplifting book, love is an energy, and it must flow. It demands expression—and that expression is 'work.' There's no learning without love, no innovation, no service, no sustainable growth. Love and work are inextricable. Buckingham first starkly highlights the contours of our loveless work lives and explains how we got here. Next, he relates how we all develop best in response to another human being. What does a great work relationship look like when the other person is cued to your loves? Finally, he shows how you can weave love back into the world of work, and how to make this a discipline for the rest of your life. Love + Work powerfully shows why love must come first at work, and how we can make this happen."

Marcus Buckingham (Author), Marcus Buckingham (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR

"How HR can lead. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organization, and develop the workforce of the future. This book will inspire you to: overhaul performance management practices to jump-start motivation and engagement; use agile processes to transform how you hire, develop, and manage people; establish diversity programs that increase innovation and competitiveness as well as inclusion; use people analytics to bring unprecedented insight to hiring and talent management; prepare your company for the double waves of artificial intelligence and an older workforce; and close the gap between HR and strategy."

Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Peter Cappelli, Ram Charan, Reid Hoffman (Author), Emily Ellet, Rick Adamson (Narrator)

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Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

"Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies—distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking—running through our organizational lives. But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These are freethinking leaders who recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness, who know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom, and that evidence is more powerful than dogma. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matters most; that we need less focus on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real world of work."

Ashley Goodall, Marcus Buckingham (Author), Ashley Goodall, Marcus Buckingham (Narrator)

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Horror Classics Collection

"This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names The Mysterious Mansion [Honoré de Balzac] The Tomb of Heiri [Arthur Christopher Benson] Chickamauga [Ambrose Bierce] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] The Death of Halpin Frayser [Ambrose Bierce] A Halloween Wraith [William Black] The Goblin's Collection [Algernon Blackwood] The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood] Let Loose [Mary Cholmondeley] The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Lift [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Terror of Blue John Gap [Arthur Conan Doyle] Captain Murderer [Charles Dickens] The Trial for Murder [Charles Dickens] Cold Ghost [Chester S. Geier] Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man [Nathaniel Hawthorne] The Devil in Manuscript [Nathaniel Hawthorne] The Adventure of the German Student [Washington Irving] Rip Van Winkle [Washington Irving] The Romance of Certain Old Clothes [Henry James] The City Of Dreadful Night [Rudyard Kipling] The Untold Sequel to the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Frances Little] Hypnos [H.P Lovecraft] Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft] The Tomb [H.P Lovecraft] Dagon [H.P Lovecraft] The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft] The Devil [Guy de Maupassant] Who Knows? [Guy de Maupassant] When I was Dead [Vincent O'Sullivan] Doom of the House of Duryea [Earl Peirce] The Yellow Wallpaper [Charlotte Perkins Gilman] The Masqued Red Death [Edgar Allan Poe] The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe] Silence: A Fable [Edgar Allan Poe] The Tell Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe] The Room of Mirrors [Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch] The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem [Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch] The Wolves of Cernogratz [Saki] An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker] The Squaw [Bram Stoker] The Dualists [Bram Stoker] The Valley of Spiders [H.G Wells] The Sea Raiders [H.G Wells] The Red Room [H.G Wells] Jimmy Goggles the God [H.G Wells] The Eyes [Edith Wharton] The Wind in the Rose-Bush [Mary E. Wilkins Freeman] The Substitute [Georgia Wood Pangborn]"

, Ambrose Bierce, Anthony Robbins, Charles Dickens, Dalai Lama, Dale Carnegie, H.G. Wells, Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Patterson, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Buckingham, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saki, Washington Irving (Author), Daniel Duffy, Grainne Regan, Josh Ryan, Luke Cardy, Sarah Jane Barry (Narrator)

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50 Ghost and Horror masterpieces you have to listen before you die, Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

, Ambrose Bierce, Anthony Robbins, Charles Dickens, Dalai Lama, Dale Carnegie, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Patterson, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Buckingham, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saki, Washington Irving (Author), Brian Kelly, Claire Walsh, Eoin Joyce, Josh Smith, Sean Murphy, Sinead Dixon (Narrator)

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