Jim Champy, Author of Outsmart!, Featured in Safari Books Online Webinar Series

PR Log (Press Release) – Aug 18, 2008 – FT Press is proud to announce that Jim Champy, author of the new management book, Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can’t (FT Press, 2008) will be featured in a Webinar hosted by Safari Books Online on Monday, August 25th at 10:30am Pacific/1:30pm Eastern Time.

Click link below to sign-up for the Jim Champy Webinar http://www.safaribooksonline.com/newsletter/webinar/jimc ...

Outsmart! profiles nine high-velocity businesses with growth rates above fifteen percent for the past three or more years. In Outsmart!, Champy indentifies eight powerful ways that enable companies to compete in today’s rough economic marketplace.

The Webinar will help businesses reignite growth by showing them how to:


   * See what other’s don’t
   * Use all you know
   * Change your frame of reference
   * Think outside the bubble, not the box
   * Tap into others’ successes
   * Create order out of chaos
   * Simplify complexity
   * Do everything yourself


All attendees receive 45 days complimentary online access to Outsmart! on Safari Books Online.  Also, Also, the first ten webinar registrants will receive an autographed copy of Outsmart!.

About the Author
James Champy helped transform the corporate world with his book Reengineering The Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, which sold more than 2,500,000 copies. His global best-sellers also include X-Engineering The Corporation: Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age; Reengineering Management; and The Arc of Ambition. He is currently chairman of Perot Systems Corp.'s consulting practice and head of strategy for the company.

About Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), founded in 2001 as a joint venture of pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media and Pearson Education, is the leading on-demand reference and learning platform delivering expert content from the world's thought-leaders in business and technology innovation. Safari Books Online offers the combined collections of Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, lynda.com, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, Wharton School Publishing, Course Technology, and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. IT professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals rely on Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning, and certification training. Thousands of books, manuscripts, articles, and instructional videos are available from expert authors, innovators, and thought leaders. Safari Books Online is fast changing the way enterprise, academic, and training organizations access information. Safari enables increasingly mobile workforces to get technical and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari Books Online offers a range of B2B product mixes and pricing programs for every sized organization and a B2C product option for individual users. https://ssl.safaribooksonline.com/promo

About FT Press
FT Press (www.ftpress.com) is an imprint of Pearson, and publishes high-quality books in the areas of General Business, Finance and Investing, Sales and Marketing, Leadership, Management and Strategy, Human Resources, and Global Business. Our brand is built on the concept of signing and publishing the world’s best minds on the most relevant topics.

About Pearson
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is the global leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services, helping people of all ages to learn at their own pace, in their own way. The company is home to such renowned publishing brands as Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, PowerSchool, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Longman, FT Press, Wharton School Publishing and many others. Pearson's comprehensive offerings help inform targeted instruction and intervention so that success is within reach of every student. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.