Ft Press imprint: 1284 books
From Problem-Solving to Problem-Finding
Great Leaders Know How to Detect Smoke, Not Just Raging Fires
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen (ISBN: 9780131568150) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. You can’t solve a problem you don’t know exists! Learn how leaders can uncover problems while they’re...
Winning with ETF Strategies: Top Asset Managers Share Their Methods for Beating the Market
Top Asset Managers Share Their Methods for Beating the Market
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Today, using the right ETF strategies, you can pursue virtually any investing objective, and achieve your goals in any market: sideways, bear, or bull. In Winning with ETF Strategies, 23 of the field’s most respected and innovative money managers reveal their current strategies and methods, and show...
Reasonable Rx
Solving the Drug Price Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
A Real Plan for Making Drugs Affordable–and Promoting Innovation, Too “This book is a necessity for understanding the pharmaceutical industry. Both the pluses and minuses of the present system are set forth with a judicious combination of historical narrative, economic analysis, and statistical...
The New Players in Life Science Innovation
Best Practices in R&D from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The global center of gravity in life sciences innovation is rapidly shifting to emerging economies. In The New Players in Life Science Innovation, Tomasz Mroczkowski explains how China and other new economic powers are rapidly gaining leadership positions, and thoroughly assesses the implications....
Personalized Digital Advertising
How Data and Technology Are Transforming How We Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This is the first plain-English, 100% practical guide to supercharged digital advertising personalization: what's here, what's next, and how to make the most of it! Digital advertising and marketing are undergoing a massive, data-driven transformation: practically everything you thought you knew...
Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality
Decoding the Mysteries of Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This is the eBook version of the printed book.Every day, we all size up each other: It's one of the most important things we ever do. Making Sense of People provides the scientific frameworks and tools we need to improve our intuition, and assess people more consciously, systematically, and effectively....
The Mobile MBA
112 Skills to Take You Further, Faster
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Mobile MBA distills years of MBA management theory into bite-size solutions for 101 critical, "in the trenches" business challenges. From start to finish, this book focuses on what really works in practice, giving managers focused answers that can make them dramatically more effective, instantly. Along...
Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You
Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
You can design your own career, so you love what you do! You only have one life: why settle for anything less? Whether you’re an entrepreneur or working within a company, Get a Life, Not a Job shows how you can make it happen for yourself. You’ll learn how to move towards a fulfilling career that...
Moral Intelligence 2.0
Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
The best-performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. Lennick and Kiel extensively identify the moral components at the heart of the recent financial crisis, and illuminate the monetary and human costs of failed moral leadership...
by Douglas A. Perednia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia. Available in print and digital formats. Starting with the end in mind: a set of common sense, achievable...
The Global Economic System
How Liquidity Shocks Affect Financial Institutions and Lead to Economic Crises, Portable Documents
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Written for financial professionals, the authors thoroughly explain the modern global credit system; the roles of banks, hedge funds, insurers, central banks, mortgage markets, and other participants; and the credit-related instruments they rely on. In particular, the authors illuminate the crucial...
The Network Challenge (Chapter 15)
The Business Model as the Engine of Network-Based Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Zott and Amit explore the role of business models in creating value through networks. They review earlier, firm-centric views of value creation, including Porter’s value chain, the resource-based view, and the transaction costs approach. They point out that business models go well beyond classic views...
Firms of Endearment
How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Today’s best companies get it. From retail to finance and industries in between, the organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social,...
by Dev Patnaik, Jagdish N. Sheth, Rajendra S. Sisodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy , first edition, explains how companies can challenge themselves to meet their customers more than halfway. The author's original approach walks helps readers shift their thinking and their companies' thinking beyond the borders...