Michael Bungay Stanier Audiobooks

The Coaching Habit: a compact business listen read by its own author

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Who is Michael Bungay Stanier?

When an author steps up to the microphone themselves, a business book changes character. The Coaching Habit is read by Michael Bungay Stanier, and that decision matters: advice about how to hold a better conversation is more persuasive when you can hear the conversation being modelled.

The book belongs to the business and careers shelf, in the practical corner rather than the theoretical one. Its territory is the everyday management exchange, the kind that happens in corridors and one-to-ones rather than in away-day workshops, and its ambition is to make that exchange shorter and more useful.

At just over four hours it is deliberately compact. This is not a treatise; it is a working tool, and the format reflects the intention.

Michael Bungay Stanier in audiobooks

Four hours is roughly a week of ordinary commuting, which is about the right dose for material of this kind: enough to absorb, short enough to replay when a habit starts slipping.

The author’s own reading gives the recording the feel of a seminar rather than a lecture, and for anyone who has bounced off longer management listens, that directness is the selling point. Newcomers to the coaching shelf could hardly ask for a gentler way in.

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