What is lean? Where did it originate? What can it help you achieve?

True Lean gives in-depth answers to these questions.

Using more than forty full-colour images, Rudy Gort – author of ‘the

best lean book in the Netherlands’ – explains the essence and power

of lean in a very clear and understandable way.

True Lean consists of three parts:

• Origin – In order to understand the philosophy behind lean, the

origin and evolution of what is now called lean is explained. This

part goes b...

We may not be living on Mars or traveling to work using jet packs, but there's no doubt the coming decade will bring many exciting technological advances. We’re privileged to be living in a time where science and technology can assist us, make our lives easier, and rethink the ways we go about our daily lives. The technology we’re already exposed and accustomed to has paved the way for us to innovate further and this list of current and future technologies certainly has the potential to c...

This book is about integral organizing. Organizations face major challenges in terms of innovation, customer

focus, flexibility, productivity, and finding and retaining talent. Technical innovations in and of themselves can

only address such challenges to a limited extent. Attention to culture and behaviour, in and of itself, also has its

limitations. Social innovation relates to the integral development and renewal of the organisation. Many organizations,

however, are based on persistent bur...

You are that vibrant , magical sign that you have been searching for.It is not in the stars, nor is it at the heart of everything synchronostic. It is not stamped on the forehead of your beloved, nor is it lingering at the tip of the tongue of your faveorite Guru.It's already here. It's YOU.

You are the signpost of miracle and wonder.You will find the signs in your own bones, right at the heart of your very own lived experience.

Discover, Develop and Grow! This life is about living as the bes...

'Protocol to Manage Relationships Today' explains the contemporary value of protocol, not only for monarchies or diplomatic institutes, but for any non-profit or for-profit organisation. This book presents modern protocol as a tool to build strong, authentic networks of reciprocal relationships.

When used effectively protocol can:

- Increase the effect of the networking activities of an organisation. Protocol gives a professional structure to relationship management, to achieve access to the...

Governable, organizational and technological developments are taking place at an increasingly rapid pace. Structures are less and less fixed and new service and business models are necessary to maintain or improve the performance of an organization. This leads to an increasing need for governing capacity to quickly choose the right direction as an organization in the event of major changes and to maintain and strengthen coherence.

This book shows how the General Enterprise Architecting (GEA) ...

A quote that is widely attributed to Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654 – 1734) reads: "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong." This quote leads people straightaway towards a wholesome way of working in establishing which information is relevant and needed, and which basic forms this information has. But because the practice of everyday life is virtually full of infringements of Thomas Fuller's statement above, it was inevitable t...

The future of the banks as 'healthy' organisations.

As CEO of the nv CKV bank and mentor of the non-profit organization Camèn, I give an image of the banks in 2025 in a nice, smoothly written and future-oriented book.

Based on my own financial and human background as well as several quotes from other authors, I sketch my picture of what the new role of banks will be.

In my first book I departed from the financial crisis of 2008; now, more than ten years later, I am expressing my positive ...

Imagine a bike that has been made from plant-based materials or reused and recy cled parts. Imagine that the material wearing from your tyres or brake pads is biodegradable. That the lubricant washing down from your chain no longer pollutes the forest you are riding through, but provides valuable nutrients for the plants in it.

You no longer discard your old bike as if it were a piece of rubbish, but return it to the manufacturer so that parts and materials can be reused to make new bikes. Or...

Organisations have long been dominated by the perspectives of the Good (quality) and the True (efficiency). The perspective of the Beautiful, an aesthetic lens on organisations, has largely been ignored or forgotten. The Beautiful includes stimuli in organisations that trigger aesthetic experiences through the presence or attribution of coherence, congruence, contact, completion, and curiosity in organisations. As the function of organisations changes, they become increasingly human-centred, ...