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Corporate History Audiobooks

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    Grinding It Out

    The Making of McDonald's

    by Ray Kroc ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Billion Dollar Whale

    The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

    by Bradley Hope, Tom Wright ...
    Narrated by Will Collyer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    The “extraordinary” (Financial Times) and definitive inside account of the 1MDB scandal, a "must read" (Booklist) "epic tale" (Publishers Weekly) that exposes the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics from two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters.In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude was being set ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

    A Brief History of Capitalism

    by Yanis Varoufakis ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Random House presents the audio edition of **Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis, read by Leighton Pugh.Why is there so much inequality?** In this short book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xenia’s deceptively simple question. Using personal stories and famous myths – from Oedipus and Faust to ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blackwater

    The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

    by Jeremy Scahill ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled “Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday,” was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor US soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for a mercenary company: Blackwater USA, the world’s most secretive, powerful, and fastest growing ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How the Mighty Fall

    And Why Some Companies Never Give In

    by Jim Collins ...
    Narrated by Jim Collins ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    Decline can be avoided.Decline can be detected.Decline can be reversed.Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these ... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Toyota Way (Second Edition)

    14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

    by Jeffrey Liker ...
    Narrated by Perry Daniels ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 36 min

    Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    When McKinsey Comes to Town

    The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

    by Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe ...
    Narrated by Ari Fliakos ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An explosive exposé of the world's most prestigious and successful management consultancy____'Panoramic, meticulously reported and ultimately devastating' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'Every page made my blood boil' Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, author of The Price of Inequality____... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Smartest Guys in the Room

    The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

    by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 19 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century?Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries.Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chaos Monkeys

    Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine

    by Antonio Garcia Martinez ...
    Narrated by Dan John Miller ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    Features exclusive interview with the authorAn adrenaline-fuelled exposé of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Written by startup CEO and industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, this is Liar’s Poker meets The Social ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Working Backwards

    Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

    by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr ...
    Narrated by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr, Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 40 min

    'Essential for any leader in any industry' – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical CandorWorking Backwards gives an insider's account of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.In 2018 Amazon became the world’s second trillion dollar company after Apple: a remarkable success story for a company launched out of a garage in 1994 ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The House of Morgan

    An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

    by Ron Chernow ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    34 hours 37 min

    Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “brilliantly researched and written,” the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pharma

    Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America

    by Gerald Posner ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 55 min

    Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients (The New York Times Book Review).Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Forged in Crisis

    The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times

    by Nancy Koehn ...
    Narrated by Nancy Koehn ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 28 min

    "A close analysis of five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history . . . a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic!"Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of 'Grit'From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures-Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Seed Money

    Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

    by Bartow J. Elmore ...
    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us.When ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The New Corporation

    How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy

    by Joel Bakan ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 41 min

    A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation.“A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    زيارة لمكتبات العالم.. أشهر مكتبات بيع الكتب

    by خورخي كاريون ...
    Narrated by بيلسان أحمد ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    هذا الكتاب سيأخذكم في زيارة إلى أشهر مكتبات بيع الكتب حول العالم. سينطلق المؤلف من إسبانيا إلى فرنسا حيث سيزور مكتبة "شكسبير و كومبني" بباريس وسيحكي لنا عن أشهر المؤلفين الذين أقاموا بها المناقشات وحفلات التوقيع، مثل: "جيمس جويس"، و"إرنست هيمينجواي" وشعراء "جيل البيت" وغيرهم. هؤلاء المؤلفون الذي تعاونوا مع أصحاب المكتبة الذين قاموا بتوزيع الكتب الممنوعة من النشر وقاوموا الاحتلال النازي والحرب, كما ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Lead Like Walt

    Discover Walt Disney’s Magical Approach to Building Successful Organizations

    by Pat Williams ...
    Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    Whether you are building a small business from the ground up or managing a multinational company, you can learn the seven key traits for leadership success from one of the greatest business innovators and creative thinkers of the twentieth century: Walt Disney. Whether you know him as the first to produce cartoons in Technicolor, the mastermind behind the theme park Disneyland, or the founder of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Story of Tata: 1868 to 2021

    by Peter Casey ...
    Narrated by Anuj Datta ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    In 1868, Jamsetji Tata, a visionary of his time, lit the flame that went on to become Tata and its group of companies. This business grew into an extraordinary one. One that some may even call 'the greatest company in the world'. Over the decades, the business expanded and prospered under the leadership of the various keepers of the flame, such as Sir Dorabji Tata, J.R.D Tata and Ratan Tata, to ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Capital One Story

    How the Upstart Financial Institution Charged Toward Market Leadership

    by Mary Curran Hackett ...
    Narrated by Lisa Larsen ...
    series The Business Storybook Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 3 min

    What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Capital One Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled an unlikely credit card startup to revolutionize the credit industry.After twenty-five years in the credit card business, Capital One has earned its place in wallets across the world. ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Disney Way

    Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition

    by Bill Capodagli, Lynn Jackson ...
    Narrated by Gary Regal ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 43 min

    “Dream, Believe, Dare, Do . . .” Though four simple words, this carefully crafted credo lies at the heart of Walt Disney's enviable empire and has led The Walt Disney Company to prosperity for decades. As foremost experts on Disney, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson return with an updated and expanded third edition of The Disney Way to show how organizations can incorporate this four ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Sephora Story

    The Retail Success You Can't Makeup

    by Mary Curran Hackett ...
    Narrated by Hayley Cresswell ...
    series The Business Storybook Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 3 min

    What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Sephora Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that turned the makeup retailer into a paradise for makeup enthusiasts everywhere.Sephora is a playground for women, chock full of lipstick, eyeshadows, foundations, blushes, and so much more, just ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Leave Something on the Table

    And Other Surprising Lessons for Success in Business and in Life

    by Frank Bennack ...
    Narrated by Frank Bennack ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    One of the most innovative minds in business provides an equally original guide to getting ahead.Frank Bennack’s accomplishments in media and business are unrivaled.He was named chief executive of Hearst in 1979, and for nearly 30 years he helped solidify the company’s reputation as a leader in consumer media, overseeing the purchase of more than two dozen television stations and several major ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    SAUDI INC. История о том, как Саудовская Аравия стала одним из самых влиятельных государств на геополитической карте мира

    by Эллен Валд ...
    Narrated by Искусственный Интеллект Ivan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 53 min

    Книга озвучена искусственным интеллектом. Он был разработан специально для чтения текста, умеет учиться и постоянно становится лучше. Книга специалиста в области геополитики и мировой энергетики Эллен Уолд посвящена истории Саудовской Аравии с начала XX века, когда Абдель-Азиз из рода Саудитов начал борьбу за объединение Аравийского полуострова, и до настоящего времени, когда Королевство стало ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Axed

    Who Killed Australian Magazines?

    by Phil Barker ...
    Narrated by Phil Barker ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    Axed charts the dramatic decline of the magazine industry in Australia from the million-selling highs of the 1990s to the recent round of mergers, closures and mass-redundancies. What went wrong?Australian magazines once boasted the highest circulation per capita in the world. Former magazine editor Phil Barker follows the story from this golden age to today, showing how mismanagement, unchecked ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial