This book is published in the context of the 25th anniversary of PLATO Business School in The Netherlands (PLATO NL). Reading this book you will find out that leadership is based on transactionality. In fact leadership, as a historical phenomenon, can only be methodologically interpreted by behavioral scientific explanations, and that is by taking into account sociogenetic and psychogenetic variables. This book is a historical-scientific treatise, primarily a reference work, but also very us...

EU legislation has worldwide and serious impacts for governments, businesses and consumers. In this systematic and practical handbook, expert Brussels professionals share their insights, tips and strategies for engaging successfully with the process by which these laws are made. The authors show how lobbying is a multi-stage end-to-end process and explain the opportunities, challenges and risks at each step.

The book is full of real-world insights, timelines for how legislation is adopted, c...

EU legislation has major impacts on virtually every aspect of life in the EU Member States, as well as on many businesses and other stakeholders in non-member countries. However the EU decision-making process, with its complex and unique interplay between institutions and stakeholders, can seem an impenetrable mystery.

This book is a foundation text explaining systematically and comprehensively how this decision-making works. Successive chapters explain the role of each of the EU institution...

We all know companies that were very successful once, but not anymore. Think of Nokia, Kodak and Blockbuster. What they have in common is that they failed to recognize large-scale, disruptive changes in time and thus lost control of the future. That has cost these organizations dearly. But also, as a society we have been overwhelmed by disruptive event. Take for example the disruptive impact of the current covid-19 crisis that has taken so many people and organisations by surprise.

Nobody can...