Business & Economics Audiobooks

The Rise Of Corporate Dominance: The Untold Story

Thom Hartmann (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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It Pays to Talk: How to Have the Essential Conversations with Your Family About Money and Investing

"Financial security begins with a conversation . . . And that’s why Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz has teamed up with her father, internationally respected investing pioneer and bestselling author Charles R. Schwab, to produce this excellent family financial primer. This book will help investors succeed whether the stock market is going up or down, both in the present and in the long term. Throughout the book, the authors stress the importance of having regular and effective conversations about money—with a spouse or partner, young children and teenagers, and aging parents—and offer the perfect roadmap for starting and continuing those conversations, including: • understanding the basics: stocks, bonds, and mutual funds • building wealth over time, understanding your tolerance for risk, and developing and maintaining the right investment portfolio • investing for your children’s future and for your secure retirement • estate planning for you and your older parents • preparing for life’s unexpected events “A practical book for men and women, young and old ...It’s smartly written, earnest without being preachy, and offers down-to-earth advice on how to forge productive conversations about money between spouses and partners, parents and children, and adult children and aging parents.”—Chicago Tribune “Most families don’t talk about money. Personal finance ranks with sex and drugs as one of the least-discussed topics and one fraught with emotional baggage....Bottom line: You have to fend for yourself when it comes to money, and the way to do that is to talk about it with parents, spouses, and children....We all have to take care of ourselves financially. This book is a good place to start.”—USA Today"

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Charles R. Schwab (Author), Anna Fields (Narrator)

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

"After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before. In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two bestselling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams."

Patrick Lencioni (Author), Charles Stransky (Narrator)

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

"The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. Together they've pooled their knowledge and experience into the one book on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered that people in business need today. After a long, stellar career with General Electric, Larry Bossidy transformed AlliedSignal into one of the world's most admired companies and was named CEO of the year in 1998 by Chief Executive magazine. Accomplishments such as 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13 percent or more didn't just happen; they resulted from the consistent practice of the discipline of execution: understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business. Leading these processes is the real job of running a business, not formulating a "vision" and leaving the work of carrying it out to others. Bossidy and Charan show the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism. The leader's most important job-selecting and appraising people-is one that should never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry Bossidy personally makes the calls to check references for key hires. Why? With the right people in the right jobs, there's a leadership gene pool that conceives and selects strategies that can be executed. People then work together to create a strategy building block by building block, a strategy in sync with the realities of the marketplace, the economy, and the competition. Once the right people and strategy are in place, they are then linked to an operating process that results in the implementation of specific programs and actions and that assigns accountability. This kind of effective operating process goes way beyond the typical budget exercise that looks into a rearview mirror to set its goals. It puts reality behind the numbers and is where the rubber meets the road. Putting an execution culture in place is hard, but losing it is easy. In July 2001 Larry Bossidy was asked by the board of directors of Honeywell International (it had merged with AlliedSignal) to return and get the company back on track. He's been putting the ideas he writes about in Execution to work in real time."

Huldrych Zwingli, Ram Charan (Author), John Bedford Lloyd, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan (Narrator)

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The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth

"Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets. Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world's foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it's your turn. Is it possible to make a million dollars in only one minute? The answer just might surprise you. The One Minute Millionaire is an entirely new approach, a life-changing "millionaire system" that will teach you how to: * Create wealth even when you have nothing to start with. * Overcome fears so you can take reasonable risks. * Use the power of leverage to build wealth rapidly. * Use "one minute" habits to build wealth over the long term. The One Minute Millionaire is a revolutionary approach to building wealth and a powerful program for self-discovery as well. Here are two books in one, fiction and nonfiction, designed to address two kinds of learning so that you can fully integrate these life-changing lessons. On the right-hand pages, you will find the fictional story of a woman who has to make a million dollars in ninety days or lose her two children forever. The left-hand pages give the practical, step-by-step nonfiction strategies and techniques that actually work in the real world. You'll find more than one hundred nuts-and-bolts "Millionaire Minutes," each one a concise and invaluable lesson with specific techniques for creating wealth. However, the lessons here are not just about becoming a millionaire-they are about becoming an enlightened millionaire and how to ethically make, keep, and share your wealth. Whether your goal is less than a million dollars or that amount many times over, there's never been a better time to achieve abundance. Let The One Minute Millionaire show you the way."

Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (Author), Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen (Narrator)

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Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You To Know and How You Can Fi

"Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade’s rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street’s obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it hard to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice. In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt—former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission—shows how you can take matters into your own hands. At once anecdotal (names are named), informative, and prescriptive, Take on the Street expounds on, among other subjects: the relationship between broker compensation and your trading account; the conflicts of interest inherent in buy-hold-or-sell recommendations of analysts; what exactly happens—and who gets a piece of the action—when you place an order; the “seven deadly sins” of mutual funds; the vagaries and vicissitudes of 401(k) investments; how accountants engage in sleight of hand to fake impressive company performance; how to find the truth in a company’s financial statements; the real reason for the Street’s hostility to full disclosure; the crisis in corporate governance, and, given these shenanigans and double-dealings, what specific steps you can take to safeguard your financial future. With integrity and authority, Levitt gives us a bracing primer on the collapse of the system for overseeing our capital markets, and sage, essential advice on a discipline we often ignore to our peril—how not to lose money."

Arthur Levitt (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition

"A Vintage Original The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world. Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans in order to find the thirty best business stories from the past twelve months. Among those selected: Ken Auletta on Herb Allen's CEO retreat, from The New Yorker; Diane Brady on Martha Stewart, from Business Week; Steve Silberman on creating a borderless global cyber-marketplace, from Wired; and many others from the pages of Harper's, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. Comprehensive in the range and consistent in the quality of the writing, this volume marks the beginning of a fascinating new anthology series."

Andrew Leckey (Author), Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman, Oliver Wyman (Narrator)

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Get Clark Smart

"Clark Howard answers all these questions and many more in Get Clark Smart. With practical tips and on-line resources, Howard helps listeners to get rich by saving money in unexpected places and investing those savings creatively. Howard has a passion for saving money and a zealots enthusiasm for sharing everything hes learned. His strategies for getting rich by saving wisely will turn readers into financial wizards."

Clark Howard (Author), Clark Howard (Narrator)

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[Marathi] - Sadhya Jaivik Yudhha Chalu Aahe Ka?

"सध्या खरोखऱच जैविक युध्द चालू आहे का? महामारीनंतर येणा-या महामंदीला टाळण्यासाठी बारताने काय केले पाहिजे याबद्दल मार्गदर्शन करत आहेत लोकसत्ता संपादक आणि युध्द जीवाचे या पुस्तकाचे लेखक गिरिश कुबेर"

Thinkbank (Author), Vinayak Pachlag (Narrator)

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Financial Freedom

"Suze Orman will guide you through the steps to financial freedom on this audio download. This practical, systematic approach to financial freedom is divided into three parts. The first one takes us back to our most formative experiences with money. We do this in order to break free of financial worries and take control of our feelings about money. The next part contains the Must Dos, the Laws of Money. We'll find out about trusts and wills, credit card debt, saving for retirement, the insurance we should and shouldn't have, and much more. In the third part, we learn the true secrets of the money cycle and realize that we cannot measure our self-worth by our net worth."

Suze Orman (Author), Suze Orman (Narrator)

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The Savvy Networker

Caryl Rae Krannich Ph.D., Ron Krannich Ph.D. (Author), Lynn Filusch (Narrator)

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Boss Talk: Top CEOs Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies

"Timeless and effective business lessons from twenty-one top CEOs Every business leader—from manager to entrepreneur—wants to know the ideas that motivate and inspire the world’s most successful CEOs. Boss Talk presents twenty-one CEOs who give expert advice on issues important to today’s businessperson. The topics include: •Motivating Your Employees •Managing Growth •Building a Brand •Learning from the New Economy •Trendspotting •Beating the Competition •Leading a Successful Turnaround or Transition Here’s what some bosses are talking about: “You have to get rewarded in the soul and in the wallet. The money isn’t enough, but a plaque isn’t enough either.” —Jack Welch, General Electric Co. “Lead by example. If you do that as CEO, your style will filter down through your team.” —John Chambers, Cisco Systems “We do a lot of quantitative stuff. But coupled with that is having an employee staff and culture that is inherently interested in what we do.” —Tom Freston, MTV Networks “Surround yourself with people you trust. You can’t run a business over a certain size and sign off on everything.” —Emily Woods, J.Crew"

Wall Street Journal (Author), Bill Meisle, Jay Gregory, Jennifer Wiltsie, Robert MacNamara (Narrator)

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