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Mastering Strategy
An Inspirational Guide for Entrepreneurs and Managers
2021 || Paperback || Wim Buekens || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
The idea behind this book is to give both entrepreneurs and managers a better understanding of what strategy is all about. Even more importantly, we try to answer the question how to make the strategy work and how to get the people involved in the strategy more inspired and committed.
Formulating a strategy that provides a sustainable competitive advantage is one thing. We all know that so many well-formulated strategies fail in their execution. However, just because something is hard doesnâ...
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50 key terms in contemporary cultural theory
2017 || Paperback || Joost de Bloois e.a. || Pelckmans
Anthropocene, post-humanism, biopolitics ... These terms are often used first in an academic context before being used outside the academic world, once their usefulness has become known to the wider public. Whether in official policy documents, in catalogues of expositions or in applications for subsidies, these terms tend to show up regularly.
In this book, 50 terms that are important in contemporary cultural theory are explained by experts in the field. They clarify what the term means, how...
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Paradoxes of Leadership
Neuroscience-based Leadership in the Information Age
2022 || Paperback || Steven Poelmans || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
Our world is changing. It changes at an accelerating rate. So should we, if we want to keep up with the change. We need to re-invent ourselves, as we have been re-inventing our environment. We have become the chief architects of life on earth. But the chief architect more resembles the magician’s apprentice, because the impact of change we are causing is beyond our grasp, creating climate change and upsetting our ecosystem.
Paradoxes of Leadership is written for the leaders and shapers of ...
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Why the best is yet to come
2024 || Paperback || Alexander De Croo || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
A pandemic, a war in Europe and a climate that is getting warmer and warmer; in recent years, Alexander De Croo has had little option but to be a crisis prime minister. Even so, he is more convinced than ever that tomorrow will be better than today.
Why the best is yet to come radically challenges the doom-laden thinking, nationalist tendencies and destructive negativism that characterise so much of modern politics.
Our country is bursting with talent. If we give our people freedom, confidenc...
Heart to Heart
Inspiration from early childhood
2023 || Paperback || Binu Singh || Pelckmans
In this book, Binu Singh aims to give a voice to children up to 6 years old and invites you to look at your own life and society from their perspective. She makes a heartfelt call for more focus on our early childhood. She does this through inspiring quotes and short texts on topics such as the inner child, secure attachment, toxic stress, healing through connection, a mother’s power, a father’s power, self-care and social support. Binu Singh brings together science and wisdom and present...
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De toekomstformule
De zoektocht naar de spelregels van morgen
2023 || Paperback || Jo Caudron || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
De wereld bevindt zich op een keerpunt. Voor het eerst in onze recente geschiedenis is er een overheersend gevoel dat mens, maatschappij en economie op een andere manier verder moeten. Het oude model, het oude normaal, lijkt stilaan op zijn einde te lopen.
We zijn natuurlijk al langer bekend met grote uitdagingen zoals klimaatverandering, digitale transformatie, en maatschappelijke evoluties op het vlak van wonen, werken, mobiliteit, gezondheidszorg en migratie. Sinds kort hebben we echter te...
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Trendsurfing (Engelse versie)
Innovating on Waves of Change
2023 || Paperback || Bert Van Thilborgh || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
In TRENDSURFING, trendwatcher Bert Van Thilborgh guides you through the processes of change in our rapidly evolving, highly volatile and deceptively ambiguous world. In this methodological book, the author clarifies the techniques of trend analysis and positions them in a structural model. In addition, the book offers numerous tips and tricks that will help readers surf the waves of innovation, identify emerging trends and respond to them effectively.
Bert observes, quantifies, explains and i...
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AQ. Adaptive Intelligence
Unleash your personal adaptability
2022 || Paperback || Tim Vermeire e.a. || Pelckmans
The world is changing fast. So fast that it is difficult to follow. Every day, we are confronted with thousands of different stimuli, ever-expanding digitalisation and ever more powerful forces of transformation, both at work and in society as a whole. Our increasingly frantic way of living and working demands more and more energy from us and has negative effects on our bodies, our health and our quality of life. Behind the seemingly attractive facade of this life, a deep personal emptiness i...
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The Fun and Frustration of Modern Working Life
Contributions from an Occupational Health Psychology Perspective
2019 || Paperback || Hans De Witte e.a. || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
The Fun and Frustration of Modern Working Life presents an easy to read and timely overview of the state-of-the-art of many important areas in occupational health psychology. It focuses on the health and well-being of workers, the work related causes and consequences of (lack of) worker health and well-being, and strategies for improvement. It also marks the retirement of Wilmar Schaufeli, one of the most eminent scholars active in occupational health psychology since the 1990s.
This book off...
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Brand design and graphic identity
Bridging the gap between business and creativity
2023 || Paperback || Thomas van Ryckeghem e.a. || Pelckmans || met inkijkexemplaar
Are you a professional often involved with brands and their visual communication, but not really a designer? Do you want to better understand how brands communicate? Do you often need to advise or manage designers? Or would you like to start as a designer yourself? This book aims to bridge the gap between business and creativity in visual communication.
To eliminate the noise in visual communication as much as possible, we provide managers and graphic designers a common language to communicat...