Biologist Patrick van Veen is an expert in the area of social relationships at work. To examine and understand behaviour and subsequently do something with that knowledge - this is one of the basic skills that Van Veen would like more managers to master.

This book is packed with beautiful full colour photos that have all been taken in Apenheul and offers a fascinating view of the social behaviour of primates. Van Veen knows as no other how to draw parallels with the human world, in particular...

Think Lean is just for factories or tech teams? Think again.

Lean is everywhere. Het zit in hoe je je dag plant, problemen op het werk oplost, of zelfs sneller kookt zonder in te leveren op kwaliteit. Grote kans dat je Lean-denken al toepast — zonder dat je het doorhad. Dit boek helpt je om de verbanden te zien, je vaardigheden te scherpen en verbeterkansen overal te herkennen.

Freshers Lean is je toegankelijke, nuchtere gids om Lean op een praktische en herkenbare manier te begrijpen. Of j...

This Courseware is suited for the PRINCE2® 2017 Edition Foundation exam.

Why take a PRINCE2® course?

There are six variables that present in every project. These variables need to be managed accordingly. The six variables are:

- Money

- Time

- Quality

- Scope

- Risks

- Benefits

PRINCE2® is an integrated framework of processes and themes that will provide handles for planning, delegating, supervising and maintaining the six aspects of project performance.

By using examples and assignments...

The IPMA ICB4® is the international standard on competence for project, programme and portfolio managers. The competence needed for each of these domains is defined in the following competence areas: “People” (how do you interact with the people around you, and yourself); the “Practice” of our work (needed for Projects, Programmes and Portfolios); the “Perspective” of the intiatives you’re running (the context within which the initiative is run and the link to what needs to be ...

Wings of Change – Jan Jacob Stam

This book is about organisational development from a systemic perspective. It is about systemic principles. How do they work in organisations? And how do people in those organisations experience them? This book attempts to answer this and many more questions on working with the systemic phenomenological perspective in organisations and society at large.

From the same perspective, this book discusses a large amount of issues such as fraud, success, downturn...

More than ever before, companies are facing the challenge of developing a strategy that enables them to deal with changing geopolitical developments. The current geopolitical environment has become so complex that Dutch companies with international operations face the question of how they can adapt to it.

This book outlines how companies can respond to, and where possible anticipate, geopolitical developments: from higher commodity prices and export restrictions to cyber security and tensions...

This book takes the reader through the process to plan, deliver, and follow-up a one week long Lean Quality Improvement event, usually termed a ‘Rapid Improvement Event’ or ‘Rapid Process Improvement Workshop.’

Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence 3e offers powerful yet practical advice for leading yourself to personal excellence.

Help groups deliver results with an updated approach to facilitation and consulting

The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Trainers, and Coaches, Third Edition is a fundamental resource for consultants, facilitators, coaches, trainers, and anyone who helps groups realize their creative and problem-solving potential. This new edition includes updated content based on the latest research and revised models of group effectiveness and mutual learning. Rog...

This book addresses the challenge of focusing on, holding on to and acting on what we notice ‘in the middle of it all’. Maintaining a simultaneous focus on task and process – what we do and what we notice – is what I define as ‘double awareness’.