Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes audiobook runs 12.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Don Hagen (about 8.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 12.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 12.3 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 6,401 Career Development audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Don Hagen
Don Hagen narrates 144 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,159 hours in all.
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172 Career Development 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 Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes is an audiobook by Sydney Finkelstein: a 12.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Don Hagen, released March 1, 2016, on the Career Development and HR & Admin shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Don Hagen
- Released
- March 1, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Career Development, HR & Admin
- ISBN
- 9781469003856
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes audiobook?
Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes runs 12.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.2 hours.
Is the Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes?
Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes is narrated by Don Hagen.
Is Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.2 hours, saving 4.1 hours.