Fast Track to Business Success (Collection)
Fast Track to Business Success (Collection)

Author: Andy Bruce

Publisher: FT Press

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 1038

ISBN-13: 0133087395

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Master Powerful New Ways to Manage Innovation, Projects, People, and Performance! Three great books present breakthrough techniques for managing innovation, projects, people, and business performance! Innovation: Fast Track to Success presents a practical framework for identifying new commercial opportunities and developing new and better ways of doing things. This integrated framework helps you get all six key elements of innovation right: planning, pipeline, process, platform, people, and performance. Project Management: Fast Track to Success shows how to adapt and simplify project management tools and techniques to make them maximally relevant to modern business operational activities. Finally, in Managing People & Performance: Fast Track to Success, David Ross shows how to get the best possible performance out of every member of your team, whatever their personality or skillset. Ross shows how to build a high-performance team by gaining deep insight into each individual team member and motivating them to work together to deliver the results you need. Together, these three books will teach you the key skills you need to excel as a manager--and accelerate your career development! From world-renowned leaders in optimizing business performance, including Andy Bruce, David Birchall, Patrick Harper-Smith, Simon Derry, and David Ross

Be A Shortcut
Be A Shortcut

Author: Scott G. Halford

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-12-22

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0470475528

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Shortcut is the new catchphrase that identifies high-quality, influence and value in employees and executives. Be A Shortcut is a business book that provides new frameworks and tactics to help a broad range of individuals become the professionals their company can't live without. The book shows you how to actually become a Shortcut using Halford's proven, Shortcut success formula. You'll gain more influence, become more valuable, get promoted faster, find better customers, get better raises - no matter what you do. Shortcut is a way of thinking, a way of doing, a way of being - and when you commit yourself to it, you'll write your own ticket to wherever you want to go.

The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan
The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan

Author: Dane Sanders

Publisher: Amphoto Books

Published: 2010-12-14

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 081743576X

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NEW RULES FOR A NEW BUSINESS WORLD Thinking about starting a photography business? The first thing you need to know is that the rules have changed. Yesterday’s business models have collapsed. Creating a successful business in today’s "Digi-Flat" era requires a sharp new approach, one that Dane Sanders has practiced successfully and taught at Fast Track workshops and seminars all around the world. Some of the things you'll learn in this book: How to turn the very technologies that are "killing" professional photography—such as the Internet—into your tools of success -How to lead your business, not let your business lead you -How systematizing, scaling, and outsourcing are critical concepts even for a one-person business -How to radically rethink marketing, sales, and customer service for the 21st century -How to hone a creative vision that works—the most powerful step you can take as a businessperson The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan is not about building a "traditional" business plan that looks good on paper and impresses investors. It's about creating a vibrant, living business plan that will help you thrive in today's digital "Wild West," where creative content is freely distributed, where no one plays by the rules anymore, and where customers have unprecedented freedom in choosing what to buy and whom to hire. It's a groundbreaking look at running a creative business. Whether you're an amateur looking to go pro or a professional whose business has stalled, Dane's practical, on-the-ground advice will launch you on the fast track to business success. Includes free access to Dane's online "stress test" to diagnose your business's strengths—as well as where it needs help!

The 30 Day MBA
The 30 Day MBA

Author: Colin Barrow

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0749482966

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If you want to accelerate your career development and transform your skillset, but without the price tag and two-year commitment of the MBA, this is the book for you. The 30 Day MBA covers the 12 core disciplines of business: accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behaviour, business history, business law, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics and social responsibility, operations management, research and analysis and strategy. It provides the tools and techniques you need to seize business opportunities and implement strategies successfully. Complex concepts are explained in simple and practical terms, helping you to apply high level concepts to the real-life world of business. The 30 Day MBA also contains insightful case studies from leading organizations including IKEA, Cisco, Cobra Beer, Heinz, Shell, Hotel Chocolat and Chilango, to help keep you right up-to-the-minute with current trends and inspire you to explore new concepts. This book equips you with essential hard knowledge, but also helps you understand how business and current thinking is shifting in today's turbulent global markets, and broadens your mind with the knowledge and confidence to excel in a competitive career.

SwitchPoints
SwitchPoints

Author: Judy Johnson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0470449438

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SwitchPoints is the inspiring story of how Canadian National Railway (CN) advanced from good to great in a few short years–becoming North America's top-performing railroad and a favorite with of corporate customers and investors. In it, the authors reveal how company-wide culture change propelled this aging transportation giant to become the profitable powerhouse it is today. Rich with insights and anecdotes, SwitchPoints offers lessons that can be applied to any organization seeking to improve the bottom line by improving their culture.

Risk Management: Fast Track to Success
Risk Management: Fast Track to Success

Author: Keith Baxter

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2012-09-26

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0273761684

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER A complete resource to show you get ahead as a manager faster by gaining a clearer understanding of risk management. Fast Track to Success brings together the latest business thinking, practical techniques and cutting edge online material. Risk management has become a hot topic since the economic downturn. By the end of 2009 half of all companies employed a dedicated risk manager, compared with only12% in 2008. Fast Track to Success: Risk Management shows you how to quickly assess your current state of risk management effectiveness using a simple framework. It goes on to show you how to develop your own approach to risk management. FAST TRACK books all feature the following: - A combination of skills development and career development that includes a framework to help you develop your career as well as produce terrific results. - A clear structure which makes it easy to navigate information quickly. Summaries, quick tips, FAQs and Expert Voices help you find information quickly. - Fresh, contemporary full colour design. - Real life stories to give examples of what works and critically what doesn’t. - Custom-designed, highly interactive companion website www.fast-track-me.com

Fast-Track Your Business
Fast-Track Your Business

Author: Laura Patterson

Publisher: Violetear Press

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780971008625

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In Fast-Track Your Business, author Laura Patterson offers step-by-step guidance for acquiring customer insights, creating customer-centric outcomes, and developing strategies and measurable executable plans.

Mothers on the Fast Track
Mothers on the Fast Track

Author: Mary Ann Mason

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0195373693

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Along with her daughter, Mason has written a guide for young women who are facing the tough decision of when--and if--to start a family. The result is a roadmap of new choices for women facing the sobering question of how to balance a successful career with family.

College Fast Track
College Fast Track

Author: Derrick Hibbard

Publisher: Fine Print Press, Limited

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781888960235

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"College Fast Track" is written with today's college student in mind. Focusing on helping students balance the many new challenges of college life, it presents good study and personal habits to achieve greater academic success--while enjoying a less stressful college experience.

The 30 Day MBA in International Business
The 30 Day MBA in International Business

Author: Colin Barrow

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2011-08-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0749462140

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As business becomes increasingly reliant on succeeding in export markets, the need for specialist knowledge in international trade is at its highest. With thorough explanations to describe the current international business environment as well as international case studies which include IKEA, J.D. Wetherspoon, Dell, Amazon and Indian car brand Tata Nano, The 30 Day MBA in International Business will boost your knowledge and help you play a more rounded role in shaping the direction of your organization. It covers all the essential elements of international trade and business, including international marketing strategy, managing international organizations and selecting global strategic partners as well as finance, accounting and human resource management. The 30 Day MBA in International Business is packed with links to free resources from the top business schools as well an online list of sources to keep you informed on all the key business issues.