Wil jij iets veranderen in je organisatie? Weet je wat er moet gebeuren en wat anderen moeten gaan doen? Maar krijg je het er niet door?

In dit boek gaan we er van uit dat organisatieverandering minder gebaat is bij degelijk onderzoek en overtuigingskracht en meer bij het vermogen om dat onderzoek met de juiste mensen te verrichten.

Als je het onderzoek met in plaats van voor hen inricht, zal je met groepen moeten kunnen werken. Niet alleen met wat in een groep openlijk wordt uitgesproken, m...

Gezinnen zijn nog belangrijker dan de meeste mensen zich realiseren. De opvoeding van de jeugd bepaalt de toekomstige mentale kracht van onze samenleving. Willen we daadwerkelijk mentale vooruitgang boeken, dan moeten we nú investeren in de ontwikkeling van onze kinderen. We moeten van Nederland een werkelijk gezinsvriendelijke samenleving maken. In dit boek schetst de Denktank Mentale Vooruitgang van Jeugd & Gezin een nieuw en hoopgevend toekomstbeeld van hoe een gezinsvriendelijk Nederland...

Tijd voor transitie

Onze maatschappij en economie zijn hard toe aan nieuwe oplossingen om de wereld beter te maken. Niet morgen, maar vandaag al. Daarvoor is het nodig dat we buiten de gebaande paden in management en organisaties leren werken en denken.

De bijdragen in deze bundel gaan daarop in. De auteurs zijn verbonden aan TIAS, school for business and society. Vanuit hun verscheidenheid aan kennisgebieden schetsen zij nieuwe perspectieven en oplossingen. Dit wordt gedaan aan de hand van ...

Until now, there has been no definitive "little red book" for the millions of sales-people across the globe. In the tradition of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, New York Times bestseller and the best selling sports book of all time. The Little Red Book of Selling by sales master Jeffrey Gitomer fills that void with an edgy, practical, and fun resource that salespeople will love-and sales managers will buy by the case.

Salespeople hate to read. That's why The Little Red Book of Selling is sho...

For most children, reading the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm is an essential experience when growing up. Grimm's Fairy Tales collects some of the best-known fairy and folk tales set down by the Brothers Grimm, including "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Frog-Prince," and "Rumpelstiltskin."

Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century. 'An amazing writer ...

If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman

Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park.

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world.

How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room and memo...

Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practising designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole. The fifth edition is completely revised and expanded. It examines every aspect of the process of yacht and powerboat design.

The new edition includes new findings from recent research in aero and hydrodynamics, as well as covering the most recent changes to building standards. The au...

A 10th anniversary deluxe edition of the bestselling book to inspire creativity for artists and creatives of all types: an oversized hardcover with ribbon marker, hand-drawn endpapers, and a new afterword by the author.