Every human being has something individual and unique to offer themselves and the rest of the world. The moment you stand in your rightful place in the fountain, you feel a surge of energy in your body in the form of fulfillment, enthusiasm, and joy. You perceive that you are embedded in something greater than yourself and feel supported by it. This force directs and guides you in a way that can hardly be articulated, but which can be perceived when you listen to the signals your body receive...

In a time where boundaries blur and responsibilities shift, executives are faced with the challenge of developing a new and adaptive form of leadership.

Drawing on many years of experience, five senior executive coaches present seven perspectives to further develop your executive leadership and enhance your effectiveness. Each chapter contains practical examples, theoretical frameworks, useful methodologies, and reflective questions. The last chapter provides a self-test and guidance on findi...

In a world with intense external pressures, where we often take on many different roles, it can be quite a challenge not to get ahead of ourselves. We all reach a point where we wonder, “But what do I really want?” This book helps you answer that question. So that you can always stay true to yourself and live your life the way you want instead of what others expect of you.

The more we are true to ourselves, the happier we are. And the happier we are, the more we can contribute to the happ...

We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of perceived objectivity. Diagrams of power work against representations that claim omniscience by speaking from a position, and making visible what and who gets represented and who does the representing. 'Diagrams of Power' brings together the work o...

Creative processes are as natural as breathing to some people. For others the creative process is a closed book, because perhaps mistakenly they do not believe they are creative. In this book, Daniëlle Wanders reveals the world of creativity to make the invisible more visible. How do we think? What inspires that one essential idea and how did you associate and make the connections? There are many ways to observe, think and act.

Unravelling processes is of inestimable value in being able to ...

Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize. It contributes to modern approaches in history and sociology of science that focus on the social context of scientific pract...

The book outlines a dramatic history of the failed liberalization of Japanese private law during the Meiji era. Once Japan overthrew the shogunate and fully opened up to contact with the world, modernization of the backward country and its fragmented customary legal system became a crucial objective of the new ruling elites. The initiated codification of law included the drafting of the first Civil Code, designed to revolutionize the traditional societal ties in Japan. The legal project, seem...

'Bodies beyond Binaries' advances the historiographical debate around the body in colonial and postcolonial Asia. Opening new research avenues that go beyond the binaries that have sometimes permeated previous scholarly contributions, this book explores not just the direct colonial encounter, but also wider global interconnections and flows involved in the making of knowledge, cultural constructions, and ‘techniques’ of the body.

Throughout the volume, critical concepts such as gender, s...

The Netherlands is known for its water management and leads the way in infrastructure, energy solutions and utility construction. And for good reason. After all, these are industries that are constantly evolving with complex projects and where failure costs are always lurking. To get this under control, more than 20 years ago, the introduction of Systems Engineering was a major catalyst. The government realized that processes needed more structure and that the innovative power of the market n...