“Hi, ik ben David Beckett. Ik ben pitchcoach en ik vind dat goede ideeën een stem moeten krijgen.”

Je hebt een belangrijke pitch voor de boeg. In een paar minuten moet je die investeerder of dat bestuur zien te overtuigen dat jouw idee een investering – in geld, tijd, mensen – waard is. Wat ga je zeggen? Op welke manier? En hoe krijg je greep op de zenuwen die je nu al voelt opkomen?

David Beckett heeft ruim zevenhonderd startups gecoacht en geholpen om meer dan honderdzeventig miljoen...

Oplossingen voor maatschappelijke vraagstukken, klantbehoeften en zorgbehoeften hebben een steeds kortere levensduur. De technologische mogelijkheden veranderen voortdurend, vaak op een onvoorspelbare en onvoorziene manier.

Als je succesvol wilt zijn in de wereld van vandaag zul je de wereld van morgen moeten ontwerpen. Denk als een ontwerper. Ontwerpers hebben altijd al met onzekerheid te maken gehad en weten daar juist hun voordeel mee te doen. Je hebt de juiste mindset, tools en vaardighed...

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Kim van den Bogaard, Jan Boonen, Carmen van Bussel, Petri Embregts, Noud Frielink, Sanne Giesbers, Lex Hendriks, Pieter Hermsen, Frans Hoogeveen, Kitty Jurrius, Adinda Lichtendahl, Joke van der Meer, Erwin Meinders, Gerrieta Muis, Annette van der Putten, Mieke Steenhuis, Tess Tournier en Hans van Wouwe.

De inhoud

Het boek heeft als basis de vijfde druk 2016 (redactie Hermsen, Keukens en Van der Meer). Hierin was de inhoud geordend naar de elf gezondheidspatronen van M...

Under neoliberalism the cult of individualism reigns supreme, forced upon us through culture, media and politics, it fatally limits our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. In Common Ground, Jeremy Gilbert asks us to reimagine the philosophical relationship between individuality, collectivity, affect and agency, proposing a radically non-individualist mode of imagining social life. The book considers how opponents of neoliberal hegemony, and of the individualist tradi...

In addition to its thorough coverage of DSP design and programming techniques, Smith also covers the operation and usage of DSP chips. He uses Analog Devices' popular DSP chip family as design examples.

"VONNEGUT IS GEORGE ORWELL, DR. CALIGARI AND FLASH GORDON COMPOUNDED INTO ONE WRITER ... A ZANY BUT MORAL MAD SCIENTIST." - TimeKURT VONNECUT is a master of contemporary American literature. He is the author of eighteen highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Gre...

We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.

But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?

'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life

With this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offers a fresh understanding of the politics and psychology of work and, by sharing the 'design thinking' principles th...

New York Times Bestseller'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year 'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco, Financial Times A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whet...

Deze herziene uitgave van de succesformule “Mens in de Hoofdrol” brengt Participatief Drama nog meer tot leven voor professionals die met deze krachtige methodiek aan de slag gaan.

Paul Auster's enthralling adventure story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature.

Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. 'Clever: very...