Wardy Poelstra Projectmanagement: 13 books
by Willemijn Verloop, Mark Hillen
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Social enterprise is an up and coming phenomenon around the world. Businesses with the primary aim of bettering the world. Social enterprises are claiming a distinct place amongst commercial enterprises, charities, and public sector organizations. This book paints an inspiring picture of the social enterprise,...
Managing professionals? Don't!
how to step back to go forward; a continental European perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The powerhouses of our companies today are made up of increasing numbers of professionals. The number of companies that would describe themselves as knowledge-intensive is also increasing think of R&D labs, hi-tech, IT, media, business support, health and educational organizations. Managers tend to think...
Break the Cycle!
how managers block change without realizing it
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Most modern managers know much of what there is to know about change management. Still, things often go wrong in practice. This is almost entirely because our actions are not always steered by our knowledge. Without realizing it, we make assumptions about our employees that end up causing trouble...
Purpose+Profit
How Organisations Will Shape the Defining Challenges of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
"Purpose+Profit - How Organisations Will Shape the Defining Challenges of Our Time" addresses the critical challenges of the 21st century, such as inequality and global warming, and outlines the strategic role for-profit organisations can play in addressing these collective challenges. "This...
Agile Management
the fast and flexible approach to continuous improvement in organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Agile Managing - The fast and flexible approach to continuous improvement in organizations. An environment that is changing ever faster and deeper. Markets becoming more dynamic and complex. Competitor and customer behaviour is increasingly unpredictable. These developments are affecting all organisations....
Mindful leadership
effective tools to help you focus and succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Feel like the world is passing you by as you rush through another workday? Like you never have enough energy to manage the team youre supposed to be leading? Like you cant even accomplish yourself what you set out to achieve? What you need is focus. Focus is at the core of effective leadership, but cultivating...
Circle of awareness
using the body as a mirror for thoughts: a psychotherapeutic approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Exploring your awareness is a useful therapeutic intervention. It starts with becoming aware of your body, which communicates in a very concrete way about your emotional issues and convictions. This book shows you how to use your body as a reliable source of reference for awareness. 'Circle of Awareness...
The Power of Generations
how to keep aging organizations up to date
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
About 85% of companies & institutions in old economies are aging at an incredible rate. Many of them were very successful last century, but now face the ever more prevalent question of how to stay vital and up to date. This energizing book about successive generations will show surprising new...
The integrity of power
developing true leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
We cannot avoid power; it pervades our life, from childhood into old age. We can feel powerless, or all-powerful. We can love power, or hate it. As long as we remain unaware of our own relationship with power, we are relinquishing a great deal of it because power always affects us, whether we are aware...
Building positive organisations
a pragmatic guide to help people and organisations flourish
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book is a pragmatic guide to building more meaningful, positive organisations. It bridges the gap between the latest research on well-being and today’s organisational practices, highlighting where organisations can learn from the latest insights on human well-being. Translating the findings from...
The end of the middle
what a society of extremes means for people, politics and business
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
In this book, Farid Tabarki describes how the middle disappears. Travel agents and record companies, as middle men in an antiquated production process, are certainly on the way. However, as Tabarki claims, the entrepreneur, HR manager, civil servant and school teacher also may see themselves falling...
The Enneagram in the Workplace
Better insight into yourself and others
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
Organizations become more agile and teams more self-organizing. Insight into yourself and others is therefore more important than ever. The Enneagram is a proven model that describes nine personality types. It offers tools with which you can communicate more effectively, manage more consciously and...
Master of disaster
when giving up is not an option
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book tells the unbelievable story of "Master of Disaster" Frank Krake, and his experiences after becoming the director of the struggling patio furniture giant, Unimeta. In his ambitious attempts to make the company a success, he is continuously plagued by setbacks: A firework disaster destroys the...