Free Trial

Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.

Help


1. 

Rough Cuts
The Truth About Negotiations, Second Edition

The Truth About Negotiations, Second Edition

By: Leigh Thompson

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 25-JUN-2013

Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013

Table of Contents • Start Reading

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Learn to be a world-class negotiator: get what you want and need out of any negotiation! Here, top negotiations expert Leigh Thompson brings together 50+ proven negotiation principles and bite-size, easy-to-use techniques that work! Now fully updated, this edition contains brand-new “truths” for negotiating successfully across generations and cultures, negotiating in virtual environments, and more. Thompson provides realistic game plans that work in any negotiation situation and shows how to create win-win deals by leveraging carefully...

2. 

Business Productivity Strategies for Success (Collection)

Business Productivity Strategies for Success (Collection)

By: Mark I. Woods; Trapper Woods; Merrick Rosenberg; Daniel Silvert; Jerry Weissman; Martha I. Finney

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 05-MAY-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of 4 authoritative guides to improving your business productivity, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 4 authoritative eBooks help you supercharge your business productivity and effectiveness – today, every day, for years to come! This extraordinary eBook collection will help you get better – way better! – at the tasks that can make or break your career! Start with time management: Attack Your Day presents crucial “activity management” skills and 101 productivity strategies for achieving unprecedented effectiveness, and moving relentlessly towards your...

3. 

New Age of Sustainable Capitalism: Business Models to Drive Growth and Social Change (Collection), The

New Age of Sustainable Capitalism: Business Models to Drive Growth and Social Change (Collection), The

By: Stuart L. Hart; C.K. Prahalad

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 26-APR-2013

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of cutting-edge guides to sustainable capitalism Translate sustainability and “base of the pyramid” strategies into real profits It’s time for capitalism’s next reinvention. In the new Third Edition of his best-selling Capitalism at the Crossroads, Third Edition, Stuart L. Hart reveals tomorrow’s capitalism. He presents new case studies and practical strategies for building companies that are more sustainable, build deeper roots in their markets, play a central role in solving social and environmental problems – and are far more profitable. Hart helps you...

4. 

Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (Collection), 2/e

Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (Collection), 2/e

By: Vince Thompson; David I. Russo; Rusty Rueff; Hank Stringer; Cathy Fyock; Martha I. Finney

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art talent management techniques Breakthrough talent management techniques! 5 authoritative books bring together the state-of-the-art in finding, growing, and keeping world-class people! Talent is everything — and finding, growing, and keeping the best talent has never been more difficult. This 5-book collection brings together powerful new insights, techniques, practices, and skills for improving the way you manage talent in any organization, industry, or environment… including the talent that matters most. (Yours!) In 17 Rules Successful Companies...

5. 

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus, Second Edition

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus, Second Edition

By: Michael A. Roberto

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Make better decisions! Michael A. Roberto will help you achieve deeper consensus, get past groupthink and "yes men," and achieve superior results in every decision you make -- especially your most complex and highest-stakes decisions! Roberto's Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, Second Edition gives you a powerful framework for promoting honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; test your assumptions; more thoroughly and fairly considering "best alternatives"; crisply coming to closure; and aligning your entire organization behind the decision you make. In this new edition,...

6. 

Liz Weston on Personal Finance (Collection), 2/e

Liz Weston on Personal Finance (Collection), 2/e

By:  Liz Weston

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of up-to-the-minute personal finance guidance from award-winning columnist Liz Weston… 4 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! All the realistic, trustworthy money advice you need! 4 up-to-date eBooks from Liz Weston, America’s #1 personal finance columnist, now at one great price! Money! Debt. Credit Scores. Investments. Retirement. College. You need answers you can understand, trust, and actually use! That’s where Liz Weston comes in. In this amazing 4 eBook collection, America’s #1 personal finance columnist helps you create and...

7. 

The Truth About Winning at Work (Collection), 2/e

The Truth About Winning at Work (Collection), 2/e

By: Stephen Robbins; Martha I. Finney; James O'Rourke; William S. Kane

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of management and leadership skills for improving business performance, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 4 authoritative eBooks deliver world-class skills for leading change and improving performance throughout your team and organization! You’re facing greater challenges than ever before – both outside your organization, and inside it. To win, you need today’s best skills for improving performance and driving change. Now, this 4-eBook collection presents hundreds of those skills simply, clearly, and quickly, to support action. In The Truth About...

8. 

Learn How to Trade Commodities (Collection)

Learn How to Trade Commodities (Collection)

By: George Kleinman; Carley Garner

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 26-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of high-profit commodity trading techniques and insights… 2 authoritative introductory guides, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 2 authoritative eBooks bring together all the knowledge you need to start earning consistent profits in commodities trading! You can make huge profits by trading commodities – if you know how. You must know how these markets work, how they’re different, where the risks are hidden, and how to avoid the mistakes too many beginners make. You need realistic, up-to-the-minute strategies, skills, and knowledge from experts who...

9. 

Standing Out with SEO: Expert Advice from Melanie Mitchell (Collection), 2/e

Standing Out with SEO: Expert Advice from Melanie Mitchell (Collection), 2/e

By: Melanie Mitchell

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of practical, up-to-the-minute SEO advice from one of the world’s leading experts, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 4 authoritative eBooks teach you everything you need to know to drive maximum value from search engine optimization – and get the high-profit traffic you need! In an era where everyone searches the web first, effective search engine optimization is indispensable. But SEO changes constantly, and the field is rife with confusion and mystification. Now, in four plain-English eBooks, top SEO expert Melanie Mitchell explains all you need to...

10. 

How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection), 2/e

How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection), 2/e

By: Monique Reece; Michael Tasner; Tony Davila; Marc Epstein; Robert Shelton; Larry Light; Joan Kiddon

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of authoritative guides to marketing innovation, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 4 authoritative eBooks deliver state-of-the-art guidance for more innovative, more effective, more measurably successful marketing! This 4-eBook collection will help you bring world-class innovation to marketing and everything that touches it! Start with Making Innovation Work: a formal process that can help you drive top and bottom line growth from innovation throughout marketing and beyond. Packed with new examples, it will help you define the right strategy...

11. 

Essential Lessons on Leadership (Collection), 2/e

Essential Lessons on Leadership (Collection), 2/e

By: Jon Huntsman; James F. Parker; Doug Lennick; Fred Kiel Ph.D.

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 30-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of expert advice on becoming a more successful and ethical leader… 4 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 4 authoritative eBooks bring together today’s best advice on leading with passion, inspiration, ethics, and charisma – and succeeding! This brand new eBook collection will help you lead with passion, inspiration, and honor – and win! Moral Intelligence 2.0 reveals why the best-performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. Using many new examples and...

12. 

Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability and Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy

Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability and Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy

By: Kevin Wilhelm; Bob Willard

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 01-MAY-2013

Insert Date: 25-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

This book highlights the risk of inaction for businesses when it comes to climate change, but also contains best practices to allow them to capitalize on the numerous business opportunities that climate change presents, including increased profitability, enhanced brand value, and improved shareholder relations.  The first section contains practical actions and real-world case studies of companies, such as Yakima, Sun Microsystems, and Lockheed Martin, that have successfully improved their climate performances, enhanced brand value, and increased profitability at the same time.  The second and...

13. 

People Analytics: How Social Sensing Technology Will Transform Business and What It Tells Us about the Future of Work

People Analytics: How Social Sensing Technology Will Transform Business and What It Tells Us about the Future of Work

By: Ben Waber

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 22-APR-2013

Insert Date: 25-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Discover powerful hidden social "levers" and networks within your company… then, use that knowledge to make slight "tweaks" that dramatically improve both business performance and employee fulfillment! In People Analytics, MIT Media Lab innovator Ben Waber shows how sensors and analytics can give you an unprecedented understanding of how your people work and collaborate, and actionable insights for building a more effective, productive, and positive organization. Through cutting-edge case studies, Waber shows how: Changing the way call center employees spent their breaks increased...

14. 

Rough Cuts
The Definitive Guide to Entertainment Marketing: Bringing the Moguls, the Media, and the Magic to the World, Second Edition

The Definitive Guide to Entertainment Marketing: Bringing the Moguls, the Media, and the Magic to the World, Second Edition

By: Al Lieberman; Pat Esgate

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 08-JUL-2013

Insert Date: 25-APR-2013

Table of Contents • Start Reading

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Master today's newest entertainment marketing techniques for every part of the global industry: film, cable, broadcast, sports, publishing, social communities, electronic gaming, travel/tourism, location-based and experiential entertainment, and more! Over the past decade, the entertainment industry has exploded in size: it's now nearing a trillion dollars worldwide. Everything's changed: new platforms, new media, new tools, new global markets -- everything. Now, Al Lieberman and Patricia Esgate have completely revised their classic guide...

15. 

Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading, Third Edition

Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading, Third Edition

By: Guy Cohen

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-APR-2013

Insert Date: 25-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Master option trading, visually, hands-on -- and discover the powerful, easy-to-use OVI indicator that leads the market, revealing what the world's savviest option traders are doing right now! Learn option trading from the newest edition of Guy Cohen's international best-seller Options Made Easy, which has earned a worldwide reputation for its simplicity, clarity and hands-on practicality. With outstanding graphics for step-by-step learning, this easy tutorial packed with real trades is designed to reinforce every new trader's learning experience. Using plain English and clear...

16. 

Rough Cuts
A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare: What Can Be Learned from the Best Practices in Retail, Banking, Politics, and Sports
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. In A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare, Dwight McNeill brings together best practices and actionable lessons first learned in retail, finance, politics, and beyond--and shows exactly how to adapt and apply them in healthcare. Writing for analysts, operations specialists, and managers throughout healthcare and related fields, McNeill demonstrates how to use analytics to address inefficiencies, poor population health outcomes, affordability, disparities, access to insurance, lack of customer-centricity, and other problems and...

17. 

Visual Quantitative Finance: A New Look at Option Pricing, Risk Management, and Structured Securities

Visual Quantitative Finance: A New Look at Option Pricing, Risk Management, and Structured Securities

By: Michael Lovelady

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 17-APR-2013

Insert Date: 09-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

This book makes quantitative finance (almost) easy! Its new visual approach makes quantitative finance accessible to a broad audience, including those without strong backgrounds in math or finance. Michael Lovelady introduces a simplified but powerful technique for calculating profit probabilities and graphically representing the outcomes. Lovelady's "pictures" highlight key characteristics of structured securities such as the increased likelihood of profits, the level of virtual dividends being generated, and market risk exposures. After explaining his visual approach, he applies it to one...

18. 

Rough Cuts
Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change, Second Edition

Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change, Second Edition

By: Lawrence G. Hrebiniak

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 30-JUN-2013

Insert Date: 09-APR-2013

Table of Contents • Start Reading

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. 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, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Hrebiniak shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives realize, and sheds powerful new light on why...

19. 

Shock Markets: Trading Lessons for Volatile Times

Shock Markets: Trading Lessons for Volatile Times

By: Alexander Webb; Robert I. Webb

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 29-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 30-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Don't fear crises: use them as opportunities to make money! Shock Markets shows traders and investors exactly how to do it -- with exceptional detail, not vague handwaving. Robert Webb and Alexander Webb offer meticulous breakdowns of recent crises, revealing how they impacted both individual stocks and the market as a whole -- and helping you create detailed game plans for profiting from future shocks. By fusing real-life trading examples with rigorous moment-by-moment analysis of price changes, they give you tools to survive and thrive in even the most volatile markets. This accessible,...

20. 

Tools and Tactics for Operations Managers (Collection)

Tools and Tactics for Operations Managers (Collection)

By: Randal Wilson; Arthur V. Hill; Hillel Glazer

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 02-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art operations management tools and tactics… 3 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 3 authoritative eBooks bring together today’s most valuable new operations management techniques and solutions! Apply today’s most innovative operations management techniques to improve performance and value in any organization -- even the most complex or constrained! In High Performance Operations, Hillel Glazer shows how to optimize business performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and compliance. Glazer...