Please Note: The audio has been updated for better sound quality. This audiobook was created based on Clayton Christensen's landmark book The Innovator's Dilemma. This was Mr. Christensen's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review. The au...

The Innovator's Dilemma

Experience this live lecture at Harvard, with the sounds not dubbed out and changed. Hear the lecturer stop, pause, turn pages, and experience an authentic lecture. The author points out how little is actually known about the ancient Greek language u...

Allegory of the Cave

Walking is not as well known as Thoreau's other works Walden, The Maine Woods, and Civil Disobedience. But it is a good place to start exploring his writing because it was his last book, in 1862, published by the Atlantic Monthly shortly after his de...

Walking

The Art of War is the most famous and longest-lasting book on the practice of war. The book does not mince words: war is about winning; it is not a gentleman's game; it is about using every means at one's disposal to tip the odds in one's favor. Of the centuries, this book has been used by military figures, war departments, business people, educators, and politicians, to name a few. This is the original work without additional editorial comment.

The Art of War

This audiobook was created based on Michael Porter's landmark book Competitive Strategy. This was Mr. Porter's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review. This audiobook emphasizes that operational effectiveness is not strategy, that strate...

Competitive Strategy

This audiobook uses a flash card system to teach new and renewing drivers what they need to know in order to pass the CDL as well as be better drivers. Listeners can use this to study while driving or at home. The book was suggested by a long-distanc...

Commercial Driver's License

How much of innovation is inspiration, and how much is hard work? The answer lies somewhere in the middle, says management thinker Peter Drucker. In this HBR classic from 1985, he argues that innovation is real work that can and should be managed lik...

The Discipline of Innovation

Immigration Naturalization Test covers all the questions examiners can ask you about orally in the test. This is a multipart test that requires considerable knowledge in the various areas. This is also a perfect audiobook for civics classes in grade ...

Immigration Naturalization Test

What you need to know about punctuation as taught widely in high school and grade schools. As the author says, "It is far easier to improve your writing by using proper punctuation than by studying grammar, a far more complex subject." The author sco...

Punctuation Guide

In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original United States Bill of Rights, the 17 other amendments to the United States Constitution, and much more. This lecture was given live at Harvard. It provides an im...

Bill of Rights & 17 Other Amendments to the Constitution

In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original United States Constitution. This lecture was given live at Harvard. It provides an immediacy not available in sound studios. To improve your understanding of the...

Constitution

If you're an entrepreneur, how do you write executive summaries and business plans to get the money from an investor? If you are an investor, how do you read executive summaries a business plans to know whether or not to invest? Less is more in execu...

Business Plans & Executive Summaries

Entrepreneurship is more popular than ever: courses are full, policymakers emphasize new ventures, managers yearn to go off on their own. Would-be founders often misplace their energies, however. Believing in a "big money" model of entrepreneurship, ...

Bootstrap Finance

Goleman was the first to identify emotional intelligence as a critical factor in leadership performance and success. He wrote about this succinctly in his best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence. His Harvard Business Review (HBR) article is the fir...

Emotional Intelligence: What Makes a Leader?

God Sees the Truth, But Waits engages a subject that would have suited Dostoyevsky. But Dostoyevsky would have written it with a tone of fist-waving anger and frustration, while Tolstoy wrote this story with an accepting, non-violent attitude toward ...

God Sees the Truth, But Waits

What makes for a successful board of directors, and how is it accomplished? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide, who helped bring American Power Conversion ...

Board of Directors

This audiobook addresses the scarcity of good deals for investors and angel investors for entrepreneurs. This is a seeming contradiction, but isn't in fact. Angels routinely lament the lack of good deals and high valuations placed on those available....

Angel Investing

The purpose of this audiobook is to declutter your life, choose best in class examples to follow, and do the small things to make your life more pleasant. This lecture was given at Wellesley College about how to enter the "real world," which the auth...

Organize Yourself

Five of his best titles shortened by him for Harvard Business Review: "The Effective Executive", "Discipline of Innovation based on Innovation and Entrepreneurship", "Theory of the Business", "What Executives Should Remember", and "What Only the CEO Can Do".

Drucker Collection

In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's account of the Declaration, and much more. The listener should be aware of what this audiobook...

Declaration of Independence

Fewer people than you may think have read or even heard of the Gettysburg Address. Fewer still have read or heard of the Emancipation Proclamation or Pericles Funeral Oration, including many teachers and academics. If you're looking to get an A - or ...

Gettysburg Address

In a world where it becomes increasingly difficult to hire and manage employees, the contractor seems to be a happy alternative. What makes the contractor easier to manage? How do you find reliable contractors? If you are a contractor, how do you fin...

The Free Agent, No Employee World

The age of competitive strategy may be past. Sophisticated managers are learning that handsome returns come directly from superior strategic execution - not strategic planning. Their method: hustle and get it right. A look at the financial-services i...

Hustle as Strategy

Many listeners have said this is the first audiobook to listen to on the subject of starting and running your new business. The audiobook starts with you. Is entrepreneurship for you? It states the risks of starting a business for you personally and ...

Business Startup

In a world where goods are cheaper, where communication is simpler through advances in technology, what is the best way to limit your overhead and keep your costs down? How do you make your business work for you? In only 60 minutes of conversation an...

Simpler & Cheaper

This audiobook focuses on the core knowledge you need to understand financial statements If you have a basic knowledge of accounting, this audiobook will demonstrate ways to make your financial statements more helpful and transparent for use by compa...

Financial Statements

Surviving in an increasingly encroaching legal world becomes more difficult by the day. Regulations are expanding in all areas of our lives; penalties and investigations are growing; liability has expanded and promises to expand more, creating an eve...

Legal Survival Kit

This audiobook focuses on how your good manners can promote better relations and results with other people. The author emphasizes that exhibiting good manners does not imply weakness though some may interpret your efforts that way. The point is that ...

Good Manners

This audiobook focuses on best practices in negotiating. It encourages listeners to include other noteworthy works in their study of negotiating. Above all the author encourages negotiators to keep their balance in negotiations by focusing on negotia...

Negotiate Anything

This is the second in this series of Core Words. After learning the first 100, this audiobook has the core 500 words used in the SATs and GREs over the last 50 years. This audiobook is best used after the Core 100 words are mastered so as not to inti...

SAT & GRE 500 Core Words

This audiobook was created based on Peter Drucker's long business, consulting, and writing career. He focuses on what to do, what not to do, and how to keep a clear corporate identity and mission.  He addresses how all organizations eventually go obs...

Theory of the Business

This audiobook emphasizes that financing your business is just as much of a sales challenge as selling customers. The author focuses on matching up your fund raising with the stage of development your firm is at - and not to get ahead of yourself. Mo...

Finance Your Business

"The Nose" is the second best known story of Gogol, after "The Overcoat". A military major discovers his nose is missing and works to recover it. He finds the nose but it pretends to have a life of its own, as a fellow human. It in fact has a higher ...

The Nose

Warren Buffett would love this audiobook. It covers the basics to create a solid financial plan, build your network over time, emphasizes paying off debt versus leverage, and focusing on your biggest investment: your career. This book will help you a...

Personal Finance

With this audio, you will learn about Thomas Jefferson through a compilation of original readings and commentary, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Virginia Statute of Religious Freed...

Thomas Jefferson

Handling Difficult People provides concrete strategies to identify and handle difficult people. The author emphasizes being proactive to handle, not just cope, with them. The audiobook first underscores your right to defend yourself as opposed to con...

Handling Difficult People

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a ground-breaking novel relating to the precarious state of women in the new industrial world at the end of the 19th century. One blemish on a reputation, and a woman would often be banned from her house, subject to e...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Learn how to act in your best interest as a witness, deponent, defendant, or plaintiff in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.There are 11 tracks that cover the following subjects:1. Introduction2. Plaintiff3. Defendant4. Personal Injury ...

Legal Proceedings

Crucial conversations usually come at inconvenient times. This makes it even more important to recognize that these conversations are in fact crucial moments, and to be prepared to respond promptly according to your personal objectives and goals. You...

Crucial Conversations

The Farewell Address is perhaps the most important document in American history, providing a vision for the future of America and her leaders. The background and history of it are as important as listening to the complete address itself.

George Washington: Farewell Address

Have you sent an email message you regreted? If so, it probably fell into one of the 7 Deadly Sins of Emailing. Learn the art of sending (and not sending) emails, letters, and faxes in only 75 minutes of conversation and instruction. These are the su...

Send or Don't Send

This Harvard Business Review (HBR) article describes and focuses on the unique tasks only a CEO can perform. The core elements of this article were created by Peter Drucker. They were then updated and further refined by former P & G CEO, Arthur Lafle...

What Only the CEO Can Do?

VC Money describes the best approach to interest VCs in your business venture and what steps to take, in what order, to gain their increasing commitment to your concept as well as to invite them in to be a trusted advisor. The 12 Steps come from the writings of many VCs about what they want to learn about prospective ventures and what are the most important answers they seek. A must-listen for any budding entrepreneur.

VC Money

This three-hour audiobook will let you learn and review the core elements of criminal procedure, which apply in most states and local districts, as well. Morton covers the eight important areas: the fourth amendment, statesments, confessions, identif...

Criminal Procedure

This title is laser-focused on making you sound smarter and becoming more respected by using a larger, more sophisticated vocabulary. Simply has systematically excluded words here that did meet this goal - words that are perfectly good in some contex...

300 Words to Sound Smarter and Be More Respected

Harvard Business Review writes about this article from their collection, "No management thinker was as prolific or as profound as Peter Drucker. Here is some of the savviest advice he offered executives." This from Harvard Business School Press! Who ...

What Executives Should Remember

"White Nights" is the third major Dostoyevsky short story everyone should read or listen to, along with "A Faint Heart" and "The Christmas Tree and Wedding". The story contains a series of Winesburg, Ohio-like moments: a woman and man meet accidental...

White Nights

In an age of credit cards, when there is so much to buy and so much that can easily be bought, how do you teach your children about money? Learn how in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction. These are the subjects covered: Create a Plan Why Shou...

Teaching Your Children About Money

Belfador is the single novella remaining of Machiavelli’s works. It was considered one of the finest of the period. Machiavelli was considered a skilled storyteller by all who knew him for, after all, stories form the basis of his most famous work, T...

Belfagor

The author believes this is the most important skill for creating and building a business, and one that is often sorely neglected by leaders. It all starts with knowing your deal - what benefits does your product or service provide? Then underscoring...

Sell Anything

This audiobook will let you learn and review the core elements of federal evidence rules which apply in most states and local districts as well. Morton covers the 11 important areas: General Provisions, Judicial Notice, Presumptions, Relevancy, Privi...

The Federal Rules of Evidence Simplified!

How do you hire and train sales people, and how do you use them effectively? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide. He helped bring American Power Conversion ...

Sales People

"The Ransom of Red Chief" may be the most widely read story in grammar, middle, and high school. Young people can relate to 10-year-old Red Chief, his father who makes the kidnappers pay him back in order to take Red Chief off their hands (plus come ...

The Ransom of Red Chief

Before McDonald's and Holiday Inn, Jack was on the road with his friends, when interstate highways were a novelty and going coast to coast was just for fun. Jack was pre-Vietnam, more 1950s edgy than 1960s politically correct. He loved Keats and Elio...

Jack Kerouac

Guaranteed to give the student a solid core list of words for the SATs. Unlike most SAT prep courses, this short concise audiobook is laser focused on the words themselves. It does not wear down and intimidate the student with length and breadth. Thi...

SAT 100 Core Words

The Man Without a Country is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic, during the height of the Civil War. It is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who gets entangled with Aaron Burr in 1807 and renounces his country during his trial for treason, saying he never wants to hear about the United States again.

The Man Without a Country

"The Open Boat" is considered Stephen Crane's finest work and one of the great short stories of all time. The story begins with four men in an open boat, subject to the vagaries of the sea after their ship went down. The Captain, though injured, reta...

The Open Boat

Over 25 percent of Americans work out of a home office, and of those who do not, many see it as a future goal. The question is, how do you make it work? What materials are needed and what discipline is required? Learn the answer to these questions in...

Managing Your Home Office

"A Faint Heart" is a testament to the author's brilliant sense of style and subtle sense of psychology. Two men have a passionate and loving relationship but are not homosexuals. The narrative is about a young clerk who can not reconcile his own pers...

A Faint Heart

Winesburg, Ohio has the most memorable cast of characters in 20th-century fiction. Listeners will remember at least a few stories and their characters for the rest of their lives. Each of the 23 stories stands on its own. Each is also interwoven into...

Winesburg, Ohio

Social Media is good term for one-on-one communication with customers and a critical emphasis on survival and productive efforts by all organizations - for-profit, non-profit, educational, governmental, and unions. Marketers have long done this with ...

Social Media

This audiobook emphasizes that teams are not silver bullets or panaceas for solving problems. The author describes the classic pitfall Harvard Business School professors let students fall into when confronted with a problem: call a meeting; create a ...

Team Building

A unique witty, sardonic, ironic, and insightful dictionary of terms. American humor, stem to stern. Best heard rather than read due to the sharp incisive wit. A must read in American Literature and Cultural History. Widely anthologized and used as a basis for stories such as one of the most popular Twilight zone episodes.

Devil's Dictionary

Simply Media presents Agatha Christie 4 Short Story Poirot Collection Set 1: The Affair at the Victory Ball, The Chocolate Box, The Western Star, The Accident.  Narrated in an American voice.

Agatha Christie 4 Short Story Collection Set 1: The Affair at the Victory Ball, The Chocolate Box, The Western Star, The Accident

Willa Cather was perhaps most famous for her great novels such as My Antonia and Death Comes to the Archbishop. However, her short stories were enchanting and practical, local and cosmopolitan. Of the great American writers of the early part of the t...

Willa Cather Short Stories

Writing Effective Business Proposals is all about using Power Points to make your point and close the deal, whether internally or externally. This audiobook tells you what is important, what isn't, and how to craft the most effective presentation for the audience you are addressing. Then it describes the specifics to make your presentation sizzle and close. A must-listen. 

Writing Effective Business Proposals

Simply Media presents Agatha Christie 4 Short Story Poirot Collection, Set 4: The Kidnapped Prime Minister, The Million Dollar Bank Mystery, The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge.

Agatha Christie 4 Short Story Poirot Collection, Set 4

"The Queen of Spades" is the best known and probably the best of all Russian short stories. It confronts the great riches of a few and the impoverishment of the many in the form of the assistant to the fabulously rich and old Countess; Hermann, who s...

The Queen of Spades

Seven of Charles Dickens' best ghost and thriller stories, which have been widely read and beloved worldwide. This collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. These stories provide a wonderful introduction Dickens before embarking upon ...

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Ghost & Thriller Collection

A dazzling and uplifting biography of the great Saint Francis of Assisi who gained the world by giving up worldly goods to be be independent of all. Less is more at the highest level. Told in a remarkably astute, nuanced, optimistic, uplifting biography by G. K. Chesterton, known as the Prince of Paradox.  

Saint Francis of Assisi

A Book of Five Rings is one of the three great historical strategy books, accompanying The Art of War and The Prince. They are best appreciated when listened to together. As the Japanese consulted Demming from MIT after World War II about quality American style, the Americans began to study Musashi's A Book of Five Rings in the 1970s when the Japanese. Keep your eye on the ball; focus on your goal single-mindedly and more. 

A Book of Five Rings

Mediation and divorce expert Sam Margulies has mediated over 4,000 divorces for over 20 years. Now, six of his articles and audiobooks are available in one convenient compilation. Sam addresses each of the issues in a divorce, including the psycholog...

Divorce: The Best Solutions for Everyone!

Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author of Crime and Punishment, once said, “We all come out from Gogol's 'The Overcoat.'" The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work. Younger...

The Overcoat

"Paul's Case" was first published in 1905 in Cather's first collection of short stories, titled The Troll Garden. When republished by McClure's in 1920, it established Cather's career and her fame spread across America.  "Paul's Case", similar to "Th...

Paul's Case

Getting good grades is about working hard, but it is also an art, a way of life, a mindset, that carries weight throughout your life: when applying to colleges, graduate schools, jobs, and in the success of your career. Learn the art of getting good ...

How to Get Better Grades

An Excursion to Canada is a remarkable work by Thoreau, very different from his other works. Here he becomes an American traveler who shows far greater respect for America than Canada, while explaining the details of the chasm between the Church (Bla...

An Excursion to Canada

Spoon River has 244 accounts of the lives of people in the town that explain its goings on over a couple of centuries. Each free form verse is presented as an epitaph of one of the citizens delivered themselves, often criticizing the words said about...

Spoon River Anthology

Ambrose Bierce brings to life the heart rendering stories of divided loyalties, splitting families, states, countries, and individuals. He writes of the glory in beginning and savagery in the doing.  Here is a moving anti-war series of stories if ever there was one. A must read by all students of American History and Literature, though perhaps best understood by older adults. 

Civil War Stories

"A Retrieved Reformation" may be the fourth most widely read O. Henry story in grammar, middle, and high school. "The Ransom of Red Chief" rates number one, "The Gift of the Magi" number two, and "The Cop and the Anthem" number three. Young readers e...

A Retrieved Reformation

Prenuptial agreements explode many myths on the subject. Sam Margulies, expert and mediator of over 4,000 divorces, points out how prenups cause distrust in the beginning of a relationship and how most elements in a prenup are already settled in law. He suggests ways to get the same results in a cooperative manner. A must listen for anyone contemplating a prenup.

Divorce: Prenuptial Agreements

The most important book ever written in psychology.

The Ego and the Id

Mark Twain's marvelous short work relating how to tell a story - an American story that is humorous, not comic as the British or witty as the French. The work also includes four marvelous but little-known essays: "The Wounded Soldier", "The Golden Arm", "Mental Telegraphy", and "The Invalid's Story". Canadian listeners will particularly enjoy "Mental Telegraphy", set in Quebec.

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

Learn 1,100 core words in the legal world. Here are must-know words for lawyers, law students, and people involved in the judicial system. The 7th title in the Simply Legal series, Legal Words includes all 27 Amendments to the Constitution: the first 10 in the Bill of Rights and the 17 ones thereafter. 

Legal Words

Simply takes a straightforward approach to helping you add new words to your vocabulary. This audiobook is the final of three in the series, the first being SAT 100 Core Words and the second SAT & GRE 500 Core Words. Those are intended to be a non-in...

1500 Words for a Complete Vocabulary: Core Words #3

Knowing the U.S. presidents and their terms in office, and the sequence in which they served, is immensely helpful as a framework for studying and being informed about American history. After a brief introduction, Track 1 lists the presidents and let...

U.S. Presidents and More

Simplify your life so you can focus on things truly important to you. In other words, dispense with the trivial to concentrate on the important. If you do one thing at a time, you can get almost everything done in a day. If you multitask, you wind up...

Busy & Stressed

Alexander's Bridge was Willa Cather's first novel and one of her best. Bartley Alexander was the world's leading bridge builder, something that was considered an awesome skill in the early 20th century. Alexander has the strength and regret that weav...

Alexander's Bridge

This Harvard Business Review (HBR) article focuses on Ted Levitt’s classic question, "What Business Are You In?" and what are you doing about it? He provides the classic example of why the Canadian railroads succeeded in the mid-20th century while th...

What Business Are You In?

A classic Dickens Christmas story full of love, loss, regret, and reuniting. At listener request an American voice was used to make the audio more accessible to North American listeners. The story begins by relating the hardships the English were end...

The Seven Poor Travelers

Children are what divorcing spouses say they are most concerned about, but they usually don't act upon that thought. Here, Sam Margulies lays out a plan to protect children from being injured in the divorce process. The first step is to view the clie...

Divorce: Children

"The Holly Tree" is a warm Christmas story by Charles Dickens and a listening treat for adults during the holiday season or almost any time of year. Full of wonderful Dickensian words, phrases, and irony. The story contains a strain of great truth, a...

The Holly-Tree

Three of Fitzgerald's early short stories: "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", "Jemina, the Mountain Girl", and "Tarquin of Cheapside". Each story is fascinating in its own way, with roots that lead to his novels. His writing, even at this early stage in his ca...

F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Stories

One of Oscar Wilde's most charming stories, combining art, painting, wit, love, romance, and generosity. English wit, American vigor, and Irish sentimentality too - all part of Wilde's makeup. Hard to hear without tearing up a bit at the end.

The Model Millionaire

100 Words to Sound Smarter and Be More Respected

"A Christmas Dinner" is a perfect demonstration of Dickens' attitude towards the redemptive power of Christmas and the Christmas spirit. This is a lovely short story well worth listening to alongside his more famous writings about the holidays.

A Christmas Dinner

Five best-selling vocabulary test, job, and life preparation titles combined for deeper learning through variety and repetition. Here are 100 and 300 core SAT and GRE words - 100 and 300 words to sound smarter and be more accepted in the workplace an...

Words, Words, Words

"The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a bittersweet story written in 1848, the year of revolutions throughout Europe. The story has an undercurrent reflecting the tumultuous changes of that year. The narrator, attending a Christmas party with the C...

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

A hilarious romp from start to finish, with a lord and his man having a rollicking good time with subtlety of all kinds.

The Inimitable Jeeves

Horace Mann was the founder of the free public school movement in Massachusetts then America and, by inference, the whole world. This was his great mission, which he accomplished. 

Horace Mann

Lincoln: In His Own Words includes his thoughts on his life and those of his time. This includes his most famous five speeches, The House Divided, Eulogy of Henry Clay, two Inaugurals, and The Gettysburg Address as well as the Emancipation Proclamation. The perfect audiobook for a discussion of the time between the Declaration and his death. 

Listen to Deaver Brown

Books

Similar Narrators