Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging audiobook runs 4.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Karen Saltus (about 3.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 4.9 hours, it is shorter than 63% of the 6,016 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Karen Saltus
Karen Saltus narrates 111 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 730 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Management & Leadership shelf
661 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging is an audiobook by Susan Fowler: a 4.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Karen Saltus, released October 1, 2014, on the Management & Leadership and HR & Admin shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Karen Saltus
- Released
- October 1, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Management & Leadership, HR & Admin
- ISBN
- 9781469092492
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How long is the Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging audiobook?
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging runs 4.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.3 hours.
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Who narrates Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging?
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging is narrated by Karen Saltus.