Companies that innovate successfully get six key things right. These are planning, pipeline, process, platform, people, and performance, and you need to get them right too. This book gives you a practical framework that will help you seek out new commercial opportunities and develop new and better ways of doing things. For innovation to be more than a buzzword it has to be deeply integrated into a team's structure--this book presents an integrated approach that will accelerate your move from buzzwords to practical steps to implementation.

GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN STRATEGY. FAST. To move up the business ladder, you will need to get involved in creating strategy and gain experience in the more common strategic techniques. More importantly, you need to focus on the really valuable activities – good networking, crisp planning and effective implementation. Fast Track to Success: Strategy will teach you the key skills you need to excel in strategy and accelerate your career development. It includes: Strategy in a nutshell - a series of FAQs to give you a concise overview of the subject The top 10 tools and techniques to develop your approach to strategy Advice on leading your team – how to decide your leadership style and build your team Simple checklists to help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your capabilities and those of your team Tips on how to progress your career, whether it’s your first 10 weeks in the job or whether you’re looking to get right to the top Don’t get left behind, set out on the Fast Track today. For more resources, log on to the series website at www.Fast-Track-Me.com. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER A complete resource to get ahead as a manager faster, bringing together the latest business thinking, practical techniques and cutting edge online material. Fast Track to Success: Managing covers all aspects of successful management including team leadership, finance, strategy and measuring results, as well as all types of management style both at a macro and micro level. • FAST TRACK books feature: - 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

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

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

GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN MARKETING. FAST. Marketing is all about relationships - relationships with your customers, with your brand, with the media and with your colleagues. Of all these relationships your relationship with your customers is still king. True marketing successes go beyond your product and create customer relationships with the company itself. The key to acheiving this is to align your people, your processes and your company promises. Fast Track to Success: Marketing will teach you the key skills you need to excel in marketing and accelerate your career development. It includes: Marketing in a nutshell - a series of FAQs to give you a concise overview of the subject The top 10 tools and techniques you can use to help you develop your approach to marketing Advice on leading your team – how to decide your leadership style and build your team Simple checklists to help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your capabilities and those of your team Tips on how to progress your career, whether it’s your first 10 weeks in the job or whether you’re looking to get right to the top Don’t get left behind, set out on the Fast Track today. For more resources, log on to the series website at www.Fast-Track-Me.com. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER

GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN SALES. FAST. Today’s successful salespeople sell solutions to their customers, rather than push products at them. To do this well you need a diverse range of skills. You need sharp business skills or else you’ll make few or poor sales and negotiating skills for the same reason. You need to be an excellent communicator, have a healthy level of confidence and be able to develop a feeling of empathy and rapport with the people you meet as you pursue sales. You need to be able to understand your customer's needs and wants, design a tailored solution for them and explain exactly what benefits they will derive from it. Fast Track to Success: Sales helps you do this by giving you an overview of best practice in all aspects of sales, along with practical advice on how to lead and manage a sales team. This practical, career-oriented book gets you up to speed on sales quickly. It gives you: Sales in a nutshell - a series of frequently-asked-questions to give you a concise overview of the subject The top 10 tools and techniques you can use to help you develop your approach to successful selling Simple checklists to help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your capabilities and those of your team Advice on leading your team – how to decide your leadership style and build your team Tips on how to progress your career, whether it’s your first 10 weeks in the job or whether you’re looking to get right to the top Don’t get left behind, set out on the Fast Track today. For more resources, log on to the series website at www.fast-track-me.com. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER The Fast Track books provide you with a complete resource to get ahead as a manager – faster. They bring together the latest business thinking, cutting edge online material and all the practical techniques you need to fast track your career. Specially designed to help you learn what you need to know and to develop the skills you need to get ahead, each book is broken down into 4 key areas: Awareness - find out where you are now and what you need to do to improve Business building - the tools and techniques you need to build up your skills Career development- learn the steps you should take now if you want to get ahead Director’s toolkit - tips to get you to the top. And make sure you stay there! Fast Track features include: The Fast Track Top 10 – a concise, cutting edge summary of the information you need to shine Quick Tips and FAQs – a short cut to practical advice from people who have been there before you and succeeded Real life stories to give examples of what works – and critically, what doesn’t Practical career guidance including a framework of objectives for your first 10 weeks in a new role Expert Voices – to give you the state of the art view from today’s leading experts Visit the companion web-site www.Fast-Track-Me.com to learn more about the books and explore the business methods, tools and techniques contained in each book – log on now to get on the Fast Track today. About the authors John is a Senior Management Consultant with Mercuri International, one of the world's largest sales consultancies. At Mercuri he is actively involved with selling as well as developing and delivering sales and sales management training workshops to companies across all industries arou