In this book, Mathilde Scholtes describes her personal experiences of cultural differences while living in Brazil. This collection of surprises, misunderstandings, and sometimes hilarious stories reflects that it is almost impossible for a foreigner to grasp the Brazilian spirit. It takes place between 2009 and 2016 against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Brazilian economy.

As a child, Mathilde was already fascinated by discovering the world. Her career decisions were driven by chall...

Do you want to work more effectively? Or live a more meaningful life? Or contribute

to a better world? Or all of the above? You can do that. Every day. How? With Spirited Personal Leadership.

This book is intended for anyone who, in their private or work life, wants to:

• work more effectively;

• develop their talents further;

• have a healthy work/life balance;

• increase the amount of control they have in their own life and work;

• experience more pleasure, passion, meaning and vi...

Decision-makers can dispose of dozens of books, in which strategic methods and techniques are central. Increasingly, however, decision-makers are asking themselves how reliable those methods and techniques are and how big the chance is that they can achieve their Strategic Goal with them. Decision-makers also want to be able to calculate and test this ‘probability’ themselves. They are no longer satisfied with qualitative descriptions and estimates.

Ernst R. Brus has developed methods and...

“IT is often evaluated based on hard skills. The resilience of architecture, the amount of coding languages you master, how many years of experience the tech department has. These aspects form the pit of the cherry. They are important, but none of them bring innovation. Soft skills do. Innovation grows when people learn from each other, work together and challenge each other. Soft skills are the cherry’s nutritious, sweet flesh that brings all the birds to the yard.”

Anneke Keller create...

This book explains, by following the mainstream of the history of computus (i.e. Paschal reckoning developed from early third century for determining Julian or Alexandrian calendar dates of Paschal Sunday) which shortly after AD 250 rose in Alexandria (Egypt) to ultimately in AD 1582 (turning point in the history of chronology) flow into a more realistic method for determining Gregorian calendar dates of Easter, how at the time calendar dates of Paschal Sunday depended on phases of the moon ...