De vier personages in ‘Wie heeft mijn Kaas gepikt?’ van Spencer Johnson worden geconfronteerd met ingrijpende veranderingen; elk reageert anders als zijn Kaas plotseling op is. Zie je een verandering als een uitdaging of word je erdoor verlamd?

Die Kaas is een metafoor voor wat we in het leven nastreven en waaraan we ons hechten: een interessante baan, een warme relatie, geld, een eigen huis, gezondheid, spiritueel evenwicht… Hebben we onze Kaas gevonden, dan is de neiging groot ons era...

Er zijn al vele goede boeken over het ontwikkelen van effectieve financiële vaardigheden geschreven, maar de praktijk laat steeds weer zien dat lezers hooguit in staat zijn om 25% van de goede raad en technieken toe te passen. Alhoewel ze het volledig eens zijn met de overige 75% van de informatie vallen ze toch steeds weer in hun oude saboterende gedrag terug.

Voor hetzelfde geld rijk laat je de recentelijk ontdekte oorzaak van deze saboterende overtuigingen zien en hoe je deze, diep in je ...

Good governance is essential to the success of start-ups and scale-ups. In this book, Luc Sterckx, an expert in internal governance and general management, provides firsthand advice on how early-stage companies can be governed in an efficient and workable manner, regardless of their limited financial resources. The book combines legal and regulatory information with practical advice on implementation, including guidance on how to set priorities. As a company transitions from a startup to a sc...

“teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights” Observer A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.

We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society-and, even, our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionize our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to kee...

Drawing on international research this text blends established theory and current practice to provide acomprehensive strategic coverage of this wide and constantly developing area.

The Challenge

Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study

For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and ...

The authors of the #1 New York Times best-seller Designing Your Life examine how COVID has transformed our work lives and present strategies for using design thinking to create a new work-life balance. Original.

Public Management and Governance is the leading text in international public management and governance and an ideal introduction to all aspects of this field. It combines rigorous insight from pre-eminent scholars around the world with supportive, thoughtful, and intuitive structure and pedagogy. This revised and updated fourth edition responds to the significant changes in the external environment, as well as the field itself.

It includes six new chapters covering aspects of increasing impor...

A comprehensive and current introduction to key topics in fundraising that balances theory and practice.