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Business leaders the world over are hardwired to focus on success. But what if understanding failure is the real secret behind enduring performance? In Too Good To Fail?, Jan Filochowski turns his twenty years experience as a CEO and turnaround specialist into practical advice for business managers.

One of the most important financial plans you can have is saving and investing for your retirement. Quite simply, the success of this plan determines whether youre going to live comfortably after you stop working. The Financial Times Guide to Saving and Investing for Retirement will lead you through a bewildering maze of financial tools and provide advice on crucial investment decisions. It provides everything you need to know about how to save and invest so that you can successfully plan for your retirement. It is packed with invaluable information on taxes, ISAs, pensions, investing across different assets and buying property. The Financial Times Guide to Saving and Investing for Retirement will help you: Identify your financial objectives and work out how to achieve them Learn how to invest for a specific goal and time Find out about taxes and other rules that may impact your wealth Understand why its essential to be actively involved in managing your post-work income

Mastering Attribution in Finance is a comprehensive guide to how attribution is used in equity and fixed income markets. Attribution in finance is a key investment and asset management process used in managed funds. A managed fund uses appropriate financial tools to make sure that the funds value is maintained or increased. Attribution tools are used to analyse why a portfolios performance differs from a benchmark. The difference between the portfolio return and the benchmark return is known as the active return. As with all Mastering titles, this book is written by an expert in the field. It will show you how to: Understand how attribution is used in equity and fixed income markets Improve your knowledge of the mathematics used in performance and attribution Assess in greater detail the effects top-down attribution and attribution on specific types of fixed income security Broaden your awareness of performance and return

Activist investors have sent shockwaves through corporations in recent years, personally targeting directors and executives at some of the worlds largest companies. No longer satisfied with operating on the fringes of business, they are now a firm fixture in the boardroom. Up to a quarter of public companies could be targeted by activist campaigns in the coming years, with directors and executives at those corporations threatened with losing their jobs. The trend, which began in corporate America, has spread to the UK, Europe and Asia, taking in several high profile companies. Barbarians in the Boardroom tells a compelling story of boardroom bust ups, dumped CEOs triumphant activists and pared back companies. It reveals real-life examples and interviews with executives and investors to explain why and how activist investors have managed to storm Wall Street and tear down City citadels. Owen Walker provides an insight into the way activists think, how they decide to target a company and how directors and executives could possibly work with them rather than against them.

Includes interviews with Gail Rebuck (CEO of Penguin Random House), Sir John Hegarty (Founder of BBH) and Stuart Murphy (Director of Entertainment Channels atSky) Def: Spark (n) - an elusive moment when a new idea strikes that has the potential to transform the way you do business. Big or small, new ideas are the lifeblood of all successful businesses. They are responsible for higher profits, quicker growth and game-changing innovations. But how do you foster a creative culture, nurture new ideas and manage the people behind the electricity? The Spark answers these questions and more, unravelling the mystique around business creativity and offering 10 practical steps to building an innovative team and becoming an inspiring creative leader.

Want to take your company to the next level? You need a roadmap, a strategy. Preferably one that is simple, workable and saleable. This book provides you with just that. It sets out a straightforward strategy development process, the Strategy Pyramid, and guides you through it. It uses a lively central case study throughout, as well as drawing on examples of how real businesses have developed winning strategies. Whether you are intent on growing your business, or setting out on your start-up, this book offers an uncomplicated, practical and readable guide on how to get the strategy you need for your business to succeed. It offers sound advice on the following areas: Setting goals and objectives Forecasting market demands Gauging industry competition Tracking competitive advantage Targeting the strategic gap Bridging the gap with business strategy Bridging the gap with corporate strategy Addressing risk and opportunityThe FT Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy will help businesses of all sizes to chart and realise their growth ambitions.

The comprehensive and crystal-clear companion to making the right acquisition decisions and executing them well: Acquisition is the most powerful corporate development tool available to companies and will therefore always be on the business agenda. Very practical and easy to follow: diagrams, checklists and case studies throughout. The authors have an accessible style and approach The Audience: High level entrepreneurs, senior executives, directors, and business strategists. Updates include: new and updated case studies, analysis of different types of company and how this could affect the transaction, a guide to working with external advisors.

Smarter Ventures demystifies the world of venture capital and the VC decision-making process. It aims to help you tailor your approach in the right way to the right firm; from insight on the structure of venture capital firms, and its influence on their objectives, to advice on how to dress for the initial meeting with a potential investor.

'Successful investment is a blend of standing your own ground while listening to the market.' Anthony Bolton, Investing Against the Tide (FTPH, 2009).Legendary traders - such as George Soros, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Anthony Bolton and Steven Cohen - apply a full range of tactics and techniques to achieve their stock market success. But they don't only use technical analysis or the analysis of historical statistics, they also use their instincts and intuition and they've all made their fortunes. Curtis Faith, author of the global bestseller Way of the Turtle, reveals why human intuition and instincts are an amazingly powerful trading tool. In this accessible book, Curtis teaches you how to harness, sharpen, train and trust your instincts so that you can trade smarter. And just as importantly, you'll lean when not to trust your instincts and how to complement your intuition and instincts with analysis.

Serving as a toolkit on the financial essentials, this work takes a step-by-step approach to the techniques and concepts you need to understand, explaining the hows, whats and whys along the way. It shows you how to use basic Excel spreadsheets to do all the calculations for you.

Tackles the core problem of persuading the customer that your solution to their problem is the best. This book is based on marketing and sales principles, and includes guidelines and techniques for perfect pitches, proposals and presentations.

Intended for senior executives, this book reveals how our hidden personalities, largely hard-wired since early childhood, affect the way we lead and manage others.

This handbook looks at change management from the project leader's perspective. Written in an entertaining style, the book is designed to help project managers manage change in busy situations.

Managing the Future in Financial Institutions shows how activity-based costing techniques can be used to calculate the costs in making your organization's processes more accurate. It gives practical advice on how to use activity based information (ABI) to motivate, measure and manage change effectively.