Your ultimate guide for sustainable leadership.

Written by leadership experts Sonja Wekema and Marjon Margés, this book is packed with valuable insights and practical tips to help you make a lasting impact. The Leadership Journey takes you on a step-by-step process from self-reflection to stakeholder management, from effective communication to sustainable development goals in an intercultural context.

With each chapter, you will discover valuable tools, data, and illustrations, along with me...

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 ...

A practical guide to Processes, Tools and Culture for Delivering High-Quality Software

This comprehensive guide to REACH compliance is an essential resource for businesses navigating the complex Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. Covering all aspects of the compliance process, the book provides detailed insights into substance registration, dossier preparation, and SVHC management (Substances of Very High Concern), offering clear, actionable step-by-step checklists. Readers will also find in-depth discussions on the CLP Reg...

The growing call for ecologically responsible consumer choices, driven by greater awareness of the environmental and social consequences, is impacting consumer rights. This study explores the rights of consumers amid the mobility transition from ownership to usership within the circular economy. By means of an analysis of specific EU directives and their implementation in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France, this study analyses whether, and to what extent, the protection of consumer...

Many of the contemporary global environmental problems are rooted in overexploitation of natural resources. This research looks at over-exploitation and a lack of circularity in the context of the agricultural food system. Despite biotechnological methods being available for the recovery of nutrients and organic matter from waste streams, many of these have not yet been applied to their full potential in the EU. The research identifies legislative gaps and analyses how these may be hampering ...

The gap between high and low educated has a long history, since the Re-naissance in the 16th century, and she still grows. She creates discrimination and prejudice, and is accompanied by a gap in income.

In the 20th century there appeared to be a rebirth of humanism, in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s, but that faded away when the ‘babyboomers’ joined the game of the established order.

The gap is fatal, not only for the low educated, but for society as a whole, including the high ...

Stephen King's On Writing for graphic novels: everything you want to know about storytelling, illustration and Adrian Tomine, but were too afraid to ask.

Parenting: A Dynamic Process explores the interaction between parents and children as they shape each other over time. George Holden and Amanda Harrist present the latest interdisciplinary research on parenting in an engaging and accessible matter.