Starting a business is a huge feat. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or a beginner, there’s always something new to learn—and time management is key.
At Libro.fm, we’ve got great audiobooks that can help you hit the ground running. Audiobooks make learning-on-the-go accessible and convenient. You can listen between meetings, on the treadmill, and during your commute.
Whatever you’re passionate about, these business audiobooks can help you think outside-the-box and provide inspiration for building success.
Feel-Good Productivity
“I took a lot from this book when looking at productivity. The one thing I liked about it was the overarching idea that there are ways to make being productive fun. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a relatively easy read that is engaging and educational. It’s one of my top recommended self-improvement reads”
— Chad, The Book Cellar
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Tiny Experiments
Tiny Experiments offers not just practical tools to make sure our most vital work gets done, but a guide to reawakening our curiosity and drive in a noisy, busy, disaffected world, so that we can discover and pursue our most authentic ambitions while making a meaningful contribution.
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Talk to Me Nice
In Talk to Me Nice, you’ll learn what workplace trust languages work for you and how to show colleagues, managers, and direct reports that they are valued. When we’re talking one another’s languages, we can rebuild a more equitable, sustainable, and profitable workplace that works for us all.
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DEI Deconstructed
The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace cannot be understated. But when half-baked and under-developed strategies are implemented, they often do more harm than good. By utilizing an outcome-oriented understanding of DEI, along with a comprehensive foundation of actionable techniques, this no-nonsense guide will lay out the path for anyone with any background to becoming a more effective DEI practitioner, ally, and leader.
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Radical Candor
The idea is simple: You don’t have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor—avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy—you can be kind and clear at the same time.
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Mediocre
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? Through the last 150 years of American history, Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. As provocative as it is essential, this book offers a bold new vision of American greatness.
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Four Thousand Weeks
“A game-changer. People tote time management as a way to accomplish everything, but that’s impossible—time is a limited resource. The whole way we think about time is wrong. So how can we approach our relationship to time in a way that doesn’t overwhelm? This book is a powerhouse. A must-read, especially for folks with anxiety, an intimate relationship with social media, or big ambitions. Fantastic on audio!”
— Nicole, Oblong Books
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The Art of Gathering
The Art of Gathering argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive—which they don’t have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.
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The Challenge Culture
“Nigel Travis tells [an] excellent story *and* delivers actionable advice for business owners and managers. It’s difficult to manage both in the same book and I was mightily impressed. A combination of autobiography and a step-by-step guide to creating a “challenge culture” in one’s business, I found much inspiration and practical advice here. Travis uses examples from his past (Papa John’s and Blockbuster) both good and bad to illustrate how he came to see that the best way to run a company is to trust everyone in the company, from the lowest paid to the highest, to come up with great ideas and to give them a space to do it.”
— Kelly, Fountain Bookstore
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Work Won’t Love You Back
In Work Won’t Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this “labor of love” myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work.
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Multipliers
We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. Leadership expert Liz Wiseman explores how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation.
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ADHD for Smart Ass Women
By dismantling the long-standing stereotypes and misinformation surrounding women with ADHD, Tracy Otsuka offers a beacon of hope for any woman looking to transform her symptoms into strengths. Comprehensive, lively, and long overdue, ADHD for Smart Ass Women is the key to unlocking unparalleled potential and to understanding your truly magnificent and brilliant brain.
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Win Every Argument
MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan isn’t one to avoid arguments. He relishes them as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value—and can also simply be fun.
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