Ft Press imprint: 1284 books
by Richard Templar, Jonathan Herring
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
In How to Get What You Want…Without Having to Ask , best-selling author Richard Templar brings his inimitable blend of originality, imagination, wisdom, and straight talk to the challenges of negotiation, persuasion, and influence. Templar offers up 100 clever, simple, pain-free ways to get people...
Making Strategy Work
Leading Effective Execution and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. This second edition delivers a powerful framework every leader can use to overcome the obstacles to successfully deploying business strategy. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers a comprehensive,...
A Complete and Balanced Service Scorecard
Creating Value Through Sustained Performance Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In the U.S., service related activities have become dominant aspects of the economy and currently account for well over 50% of our GNP. The authors' framework eliminates outdated, low-value techniques originally created for manufacturing firms, replacing them with advanced techniques that fully leverage...
Michael Phelps and the Redeem Team
Superstar Performers and Winning Teams...How Individuals and Teams Can Win Both Ways
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth (9780137083640) by Inder Sidhu. Available in print and digital formats. Building organizations where individuals can shine and teams work together brilliantly. “We’re guaranteeing a...
Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
“I believe that this book will fill a great need for both full-time competitive intelligence practitioners, and those looking to add analytical skills to their managerial tool kit.”
--Bill Fiora, Partner and Founder, Outward Insights
“All practicing managers and business decision...
A Comprehensive Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions
Managing the Critical Success Factors Across Every Stage of the M&A Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Leverage today's most complete and practical framework for driving superior business value from mergers and acquisitions -- both domestic and international. A Comprehensive Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions Management focuses on critical success factors across every stage of the process, including...
Practices for Engaging the 21st Century Workforce
Challenges of Talent Management in a Changing Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Strengthen workforce and employee engagement in today’s “new normal” organizational environment! Today’s workforces, today’s companies, and today’s business environments have all changed radically: even if the economy improves, companies will stay lean, and continue to rely heavily on contingent...
Training Today's People
Better Employees Through Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business (ISBN: 9780132357814) by David Edery and Ethan Mollick. Available in print and digital formats. Learn how powerful and cost-effective new video game technologies can supercharge business training,...
Taking Flight!
Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life, Student Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Use DISC to discover profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, gain deeper self-awareness, maximize your personal strengths, and influence others more powerfully than ever before! Taking Flight illuminates the proven DISC four-style model of human behavior, and shows how to use it to become...
by Richard Templar
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Tired of not getting what you want? Don't know how to ask for it? Best-selling author Richard Templar brings his inimitable blend of originality, imagination, wisdom, and straight talk to the challenges of negotiation, persuasion, and influence. Templar offers up 100 clever, simple, pain-free ways to...
The New Heart of Darkness
The Yoke of Chinese Imperialism in the 3rd World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats. Meet the twenty-first century’s most aggressive imperialist state: the People’s Republic of China. A new...
Rethink
A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
It's a totally human condition, a trap that ensnares virtually everyone. Just as when we tie a route to a destination so much so that when someone else takes a different route "why are we going this way?" it usually doesn't matter "how" you get there. This "how" trap also takes place at work, people...
Same Words, Different Language
A Proven Guide for Creating Gender Intelligence at Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Barbara Annis, the world's leading corporate gender specialist, believes that men and women don't understand each other because they don't appreciate the different ways men and women relate, communicate, problem-solve, and make decisions. In this original, solutions-based book, Annis explains exactly...
The Well-Timed Strategy
Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2006
Most companies ignore one of their best opportunities for honing competitive advantage: the opportunity to proactively manage business cycles and macroeconomic turbulence. Despite the profound impact that the business cycle has on the fortunes and fate of so many businesses large and small--and the...