Ft Press imprint: 1284 books
In the Line of Fire
How to Handle Tough Questions -- When It Counts
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Answer even the toughest, most hostile questions brilliantly: take the floor, stay poised, and win your audience over every time! Imagine: you’re standing in front of an audience and you've just been asked the question you'd been dreading — or, worse, you've been blindsided with a brutal question...
by Colin Chartres, Samyuktha Varma
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World’s Water Problems (9780131367265) by Colin Chartres and Samyuktha Varma. Available in print and digital formats. Understanding, preparing for, and mitigating...
Wired for Survival
The Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Lessons from the Cutting-Edge of Neuroscience: “Remapping” to Thrive in the New Global Economy!
“Do you ever wonder how you think? If you do, this book will fascinate and inform you. If you don’t, you will after reading this book. Either way, you’ll enjoy learning how we don’t usually...
by Matthew J. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to optimize safety stock levels for a fashion company, where consumer demand is exceptionally hard to forecast, and inventory planning is extremely difficult. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many industries...
by Richard Hammond, Rick DeHerder, Dick Blatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The world's #1 guide to retail success, complete with crucial, up-to-date insights--including new case studies, ideas, strategies, and tactics from today's best retailers, like TopShop, IKEA, and Best Buy. Smart Retail incorporates several valuable chapters, including: Opportunities to learn from...
by Brian Solis, Deirdre K. Breakenridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights into public relations, from practitioner Deirdre Breakenridge.
Master Supercharged PR Techniques Based on the Latest Social and Online Platforms!
Three great books help you leverage the latest social media and online platforms to transform...
Create Marketplace Disruption
How to Stay Ahead of the Competition
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Master the #1 Principle for Long-Term Market Dominance! The Phoenix Principle “Create Marketplace Disruption is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. Adam Hartung offers business managers and leaders new insights to long-term success that apply across markets and industries.”–Steve Burke,...
The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management
Optimize the Interaction between Supply Chain Processes, Tools, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Master supply chain management concepts, components, principles, processes, interactions, and best practices: all the knowledge you need to start designing, implementing, and managing modern supply chains! The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management brings together all the knowledge...
by Jonathan Herring, Leigh Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The ability to persuade, influence and convince is a vital skill for success in work and life. However, most of us have little idea how to argue well. Indeed, arguing is still seen by many as something to be avoided at all costs, and mostly it's done poorly, or not at all. Yet it's possibly the most...
by Leigh L. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Negotiations (9780136007364) by Leigh Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. Practical strategies for building rapport on the phone, getting “in sync,” and negotiating more successfully....
Competing for Customers
Why Delivering Business Outcomes is Critical in the Customer First Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Business-to-business customer expectations have changed. To survive—and thrive—in today’s economy, where customers are constantly reevaluating their purchases and looking at options never available before, you need to deliver business outcomes, not features and functionality.
Suddenly,...
The Rules to Break
A Personal Code for Living Your Life, Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From a very young age you’ve been inundated with other people’s rules – parents, teachers, friends – helpful principles, friendly advice, and little pointers to help you get on in life. So, how do you free yourself from these false or unhelpful beliefs that have somehow become ingrained in the...
The Rules of Love
A Personal Code for Happier, More Fulfilling Relationships, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Love matters. Whether it's the romantic kind or the emotional bond between you and family or friends. Indeed latest research suggests that those who love and are loved are significantly more likely to be alive in 10 years time than those without love in their lives. Love makes us happy, and the happier...
Investing in SWFs
The Road to Pan-Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century (9780137153879) by Yiannis G. Mostrous, Elliott H. Gue, and David F. Dittman. Available in print and digital formats. Understand the hidden...