How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses audiobook runs 6.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Dave Courvoisier (about 4.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 6.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.7 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 6,016 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Dave Courvoisier
Dave Courvoisier narrates 26 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 99 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses is an audiobook by Neil Smith: a 6.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Dave Courvoisier, released September 11, 2012, on the Management & Leadership shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dave Courvoisier
- Released
- September 11, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Management & Leadership
- ISBN
- 9781611749960
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How long is the How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses audiobook?
How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses runs 6.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.5 hours.
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Who narrates How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses?
How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses is narrated by Dave Courvoisier.