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With Team Smile, you bring the Corporate Positivity® method into your organisation. A positive culture within your organisation doesn't happen automatically; it requires effort and dedication. Improving your performance is a skill you can develop, both in straightforward and challenging situations. Team Smile provides practical insights and concrete steps you can take to actively contribute to fostering a positive mindset, effective communication, strong connections, engagement, and a positive work atmosphere in your team and organisation. "The self-fulfilling prophecy as a positive driving force has been convincingly illustrated by Ann-Sophie and Katrijn: positive statements lead to a more positive mindset, giving energy creates energy, recognizing successes provides new momentum, valuing people leads to more valuable individuals, and giving attention indeed fosters growth." — Luc Keppens | Head of Alternative Retail Brands - Retail & Private Banking Belgium, Fintro"Team Smile is a must for anyone concerned with the well-being of teams. Bringing together existing concepts from the perspective of positive psychology offers an enriching and refreshing view on how people can function optimally. A must-read for anyone with a passion for people and organizational culture." — Ellen Neirynck | International Talent Director, SD Worx

Stepping into the CEO role for the first time is a formidable challenge. With high expectations for transformative leadership, how do you create lasting change? This book serves as your essential guide, offering the tools and insights necessary to succeed. The first 100 days are crucial for analysing your organisation and building a robust growth strategy. Even seasoned CEOs will find valuable insights to inspire new avenues for expansion.

Discover the essentials of modern marketing with Marketing: Reinventing the Basics. As digital revolutions reshape consumer behaviour, this book revisits core marketing principles like SAVE and the Customer Journey. It offers a fresh perspective on how these frameworks have evolved, providing practical tools for building effective marketing plans. Perfect for educators and aspiring marketers seeking real-world skills in a dynamic, digital-driven market.

Internationally awarded speaker Marnick Vandebroek reveals the most effective techniques that he, professional comedians, keynote speakers and respected politicians across the world use to capture the hearts and minds of their audience, and how you can apply these yourself in delivering your next presentation.

Net Curiosity Score (NCS) isn’t just about change, it’s about curiosity as the key to navigating it. Many companies don’t measure curiosity, and this book aims to change that. NCS is vintage Rik Vera: direct and surprising. It’s not your typical business book, but a mix of personal stories, business insights, and philosophy. It reads smoothly and is full of practical tips, without the boring buzzwords. Instead of encouraging companies to copy others, this book challenges you to embrace curiosity and measure it with the Net Curiosity Score. That’s why the book doesn’t offer pre-packaged answers, but takes you on a journey of discovery through a network of “cycling nodes,” setting you on a path towards innovation. For those eager to measure curiosity, there’s also a handy NCS Playbook. "Reading this book feels like a journey full of discoveries. It brilliantly shows how curiosity can fuel innovation, challenge norms, and support your company". – Karin Van Hoecke, General Manager Transformation & Data at KBC. “Net Curiosity Score will drive positive behavioral change in these exciting yet uncertain times. Read the book and stay curious.” – Harry Demey, Co-Founder and CEO of advertising agency LDV United. “It’s often advised not to fall down the rabbit hole like Alice did. I disagree. And I don’t think Rik would agree either. NCS is going to be Rik’s best book yet. Why? Because it forces companies to jump down the rabbit hole.” – ianka fleerackers, personal branding mentor, author, speaker, podcaster

This is a book about the future. Not the bleak, dystopian kind that so many seem convinced we’re heading toward, but one that is built on hope, possibility, and progress. Humanity faces complex global challenges, from technological and geopolitical shocks to social and ecological disruptions. Fear, hesitation, and avoidance won’t help us overcome them. Slowing down is not the answer. We must move faster, think bigger, and fully leverage technology to build a future worth striving for. We need active hope and bold leaders who can turn adversity into opportunity.The Uncertainty Principle focuses on the key levers of transformation to help leaders rethink and reshape their companies: strategy, foresight, organizational design, culture, innovation, risk appetite, and the evolving nature of work. Above all, it serves as a guide for those who see cracks in the system not as warnings, but as windows—those daring enough to believe they can change the world, because they are the ones who will."As we zoom up the exponential curve of tech enabled change we all need an optimistic and inspiring guide. Peter Hinssen is that guide. In this new book Peter describes a “Never Normal” world helping us navigate “between the forces of pessimism and possibility”. — Dr Peter Weill, Chairman MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)"In an age when warnings dominate the conversation, The Uncertainty Principle stands out as a refreshingly optimistic guide. It demonstrates how business leaders can turn disruption into opportunity—not just for their own organizations, but for the world at large". — Costas Markides, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School"Uncertainty isn’t a threat—it’s the raw material for tomorrow’s opportunities. This book helps leaders imagine the impossible and install hope to change the future. A must-read!" — David De Cremer, Dean of D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University

The brain is a miracle, a universe that appeals to everyone's imagination, and one that neuroscientists never tire of exploring. And the more detailed our knowledge of it gets, the more technology advances that enables us to visualise what goes on inside the brain, the more fascinating and intriguing it becomes. This book, created at the Belgian Leuven Brain Institute (LBI), contains breathtaking and inspiring images and vivid text to reveal the current state of international brain research. It features contributions from world-class researchers, full of facts and unique insights.

"I very much enjoyed reading the many philosophical reflections acquired during a lifetime. In fact, these reflections gave me much to think about." - Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries | professor INSEAD"In times of change and great uncertainty, this book by Luc offers a valuable source of ideas and insights; an inspiring and thoughtful work that is certainly worth reading." - Duco Sickinghe | Executive Chairman Fortino Capital"I read this book with great care and interest, and from time to time was genuinely moved by the intense experience of entrepreneurship as a deeply human activity." - Manu Keirse | emeritus professor of medicine KU LeuvenIn Life and Entrepreneurship Luc Geuten examines some of life's fundamental questions that fascinate many of us: What makes a life meaningful? Does free will truly exist, or are we merely puppets of fate? Are humans inherently good, or does darkness reside within each of us? Is life really a vale of tears, or is happiness hidden somewhere in the folds of our journey?To explore and reflect on these profound questions, Luc Geuten has outlined a simple concept he calls GLEE ME FEE WE. Using these four core ideas, he invites his readers to join him in contemplating the complexity of human existence. By embracing the life attitude he calls healthy cynicism, he emphasises that it is a true blessing to be alive, even amid doubts and unanswered question, thus revealing the precious value of our existence.

If you want to make your dreams come true, you need to step out of your comfort zone That may sound daunting, but the reward is immense: you’ll finally experience real fulfillment. In addition, you’ll escape the physical and mental risks of an overly comfortable life, such as anxiety disorders and heart problems. Why is Western comfort actually so dangerous? And how can you challenge yourself without being paralysed by fear? Cedric Dumont offers powerful inspiration for anyone chasing their dreams. He shows you how to break free from rigid expectations and limiting beliefs. Dare to challenge yourself, and you’ll discover that happiness is within reach. Push your limits-and joy is just around the corner.

Disruptive innovation and digital transformation are reshaping today’s business landscape. But with the right partners, these challenges become powerful opportunities. Collaborate to Innovate is a hands-on guide for established organisations seeking to innovate faster through start-up collaboration. Packed with proven frameworks, real-world case studies, actionable tools, and ready-to-use methods, this playbook demystifies the complexities of startup partnerships and provides a clear roadmap to build high-impact, strategic collaborations that truly make a difference.

"As enterprises embrace AI and automation, three challenges emerge: empowering employees as roles shift, enabling continuous reskilling without disruption, and creating real synergy between AI and human talent. Drawing from real-world transformation programs, this book offers a practical playbook to address these shifts – not with theory, but with actionable strategies, proven tools, and human-centric design. The new AI era demands more than technology; it demands a reimagined employee experience that fuels performance, personalizes learning, and strengthens coaching. When done right, this isn’t just adaptation. It’s transformation, helping people stay relevant, resilient, and ready for what’s next." — Gal Rimon, Founder and CEO, Centrical"With clarity and structure, this book turns the overwhelming topic of AI into the confidence leaders need to simply get started." — Eline Lostrie, Co-CEO, nexxworksAI Will Replace You shows how organisations can let go of their fear of AI and instead embrace this technology as a lever for growth. Using the practical and accessible AI Navigator framework, you'll discover how to effectively embed AI into your strategy, get your employees on board, and prepare your organisation to become an AI leader.

Mon€y & Generations offers a compelling look at the complex interplay between family, business, and wealth. It provides deep insights into the psychology of money in enterprising families, covering topics such as money scripts that shape individuals’ relationships with money, setting dividends and compensation, providing financial education for family owners and stewards, and the role family offices play in protecting and growing family wealth. These themes are translated into practical strategies that support harmony and long term success across generations.

Organisations today face complex and fast-moving challenges. Many are navigating uncertainty and growing pressure to change from within and from the world around them. Signs of disconnection show up everywhere: between people and purpose, brand and behaviour, profit and planet. While the world speeds up, many companies feel the weight of transformation without a clear path forward. This book is for leaders who recognise that tension and want to respond. Leaders who care about doing the right thing, making real impact, and bringing more coherence to how their organisation thinks, acts, and feels. At the heart of this journey are two guiding tools: the Coherence Compass™ and the Transformational Spiral. The compass helps leaders and teams spot the cracks, misalignments between purpose, behaviour, culture, and spaces and turn them into levers for meaningful change. The spiral walks you through a participative journey, connecting Human Transformation to Interior Transformation, because that's where the real magic happens: when people and spaces evolve together to bring strategy and values to life. This is a practical and personal guide to help you make the invisible visible, reconnect what truly matters, and build an organisation that is not only future-fit, but meaningful to work for and worth believing in.

Will Ukraine ever be an EU member? Why don’t we have a European army yet? Does crisis make the EU stronger? The European Union has great influence on the lives of its citizens. That situation can prove to be controversial. Decisions made by the EU often lead to misunderstanding and resentment. Aside from these controversies, it is clear that the Union today, is the result of a myriad of choices by policymakers throughout the years. A better understanding of these choices and of the recent history of the EU allows us to better grasp its impact, and offers insight into why certain subjects are harder to place. This revised and updated edition of Why Europe? offers a historical as well as thematical insight into the development of the European Union. Drawing from six questions that put main events, key figures as well as the defining moments of the past 70 years in the foreground, this book lays out the essence of European integration.

From underdog start-up to industry leader, 40 years of strategic choices, innovative breakthroughs, and bold choices revealed. Lessons Learned of ASML traces the journey from an underdog start‑up to the dominant supplier in a volatile Tech industry. Built on interviews, internal notes and archives, it reconstructs the managerial choices—how ambitions were set, investments staged, partnerships orchestrated, technologies chosen, and setbacks absorbed—and tests them across four decades. Each chapter applies a clear analytical lens and brief reflection prompts, bringing strategy, innovation and ecosystem coordination into one readable, evidence‑driven narrative that opens theory for practice without pretending there is a universal recipe.

In elite sport, victory isn’t just physical, it’s mental. The Double-Gold Mindset reveals ten mental attitudes that top performers in sport and business share: for example, taking ownership, staying true to core values, and keeping a calm, non-judgmental mind, even when everything is on the line. Built around the Mental Basketball Team Model, this book gives you a practical playbook for performance under pressure. The Thinker crafts smart strategies. The Doer turns plans into results. The Focus Keeper keeps you and your team aligned, confident, and ready to win. The Archivist shapes today with the wisdom of the past. The Feeler guides your instinct and joy. Learn how to train your mind like a champion, and strike gold in your own game.“Over the years, I’ve learned to stay in the moment and not get lost in the possible consequences of a situation. I focus mainly on the things I can control.” Ann Wauters. “Be honest with yourself. If you’re not, you can’t grow.” Julie Allemand."If, after the first game of a championship, you already let your shoulders drop, you undermine your chances of winning later on. That’s why it’s important to take the time to reflect – and to truly change gears.” Antonia Delaere

Too many smart people build visibility without income. They collect followers, likes, and applause while real clients stay away. Personal Branding like a PRO fixes that problem. This handbook is for experts with serious knowledge who struggle to attract high-paying work, and for creators with an audience they do not know how to monetize. It replaces guesswork with a practical system to turn your personal brand into a reliable engine for leads, clients, and revenue. No hype. No vanity metrics. Just a clear framework to move from getting famous to getting paid. “In a world full of noise, a sharply positioned personal brand has become an absolute necessity. This book provides the strategic blueprint to build that reputation systematically and with real impact. It's essential reading for every expert who wants to be taken seriously.” — Peter Hinssen, Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Author of The Uncertainty Principle. “Personal Branding Like a PRO is the essential guide for anyone ready to turn intentionality into influence and high-tech tools into high-touch human trust. Clo Willaerts cuts through the vanity metrics to show you how to build a reputation that actually generates revenue, making it a most strategic business asset for the modern professional.” — Steven Van Belleghem, Customer Experience Expert and Author of A Diamond in the Rough

Most startup books tell the polished version of entrepreneurship: heroic founders, elegant frameworks, and inevitable success. Startup Confessions does the opposite. Written with sharp wit, brutal honesty, and hard-earned insight, this book reveals what building a company actually feels like: chaotic decision-making, pointless projects, fundraising rejection, hiring mistakes, leadership flaws, and the constant performance of calm while everything backstage threatens to collapse. Based on eight years of scaling Perlego, the author offers a refreshing alternative to traditional startup myth-making: a candid guide for founders who want to fail faster, learn cheaper, and build with realism instead of illusion. This is not a triumph story. It is the truth — and that is exactly why it matters.

Striving for happiness as the purpose of life, as we are led to believe is a pillar of modern society, is a mistake. It leads us nowhere, except towards a bitter confrontation with unmet expectations, disappointment and disillusion. Striving for meaning and purpose in being close to others, on the other hand, is what life is all about. Our society has become an arena of peak performance: of always striving to be better, to go further, and to aim higher. What's worse: we hardly ever stop to consider that the highs don't fill up our lows. We fail to distinguish between experiences that make us happy for a brief moment, and those that truly impart meaning to our lives, those that breed true contentment. But how can we grow to make that distinction ourselves? The answer lies in how we relate ourselves to the ones around us. That makes all the difference. With The Art of Being Unhappy, multi-bestselling author Dirk De Wachter lays bare major issues in our society that define, direct, or change our lives, but above all, allow us to connect with others as well as ourselves – if we let them.

Not so much about the workplace being disrupted, but rather the rapid pace at which disruptions have come upon us has impacted how facility management and the workplace are perceived. This step-by-step approach will help companies create a sustainable and future-proof work environment, whether looking at this from the perspective of a Facility Manager, FM Service Provider, HR Manager, Chief Happiness Officer, or part of the management team. Everyone will be able to identify with the different international use cases and extract the necessary tips & tricks. And, of course, providing a simple step-by-step model for practical implementation.

A great player doesn't necessarily make the best coach. So why should a hard-driving professional automatically be an effective manager?As an executive, you juggle challenges on a daily basis. What deserves your attention, and what doesn't? You want to delegate, but you find some tasks difficult to let go of. You see the differences between your employees, but you also want to treat everyone equally. And hiring new employees - how do you decide?Servant-Leadership offers a clear and workable method to get started, taking inspiration from a surprising source: the natural, shared leadership within a wolf pack. No pedantic models, but usable guidelines that are tough on results but tender on people.'Roeland's 'Servant-Leadership' masterfully blends practical advice with philosophy, offering leaders tangible ways to effect change. It's rich in 'learning moments' - opportunities that challenge and grow us. This book is essential for those on the servant leadership path, keen on making a real difference. Highly recommended.' - Garry Ridge, Chairman Emeritus former CEO of WD-40 Company, The Culture Coach and Founder of The Learning Moment'Servant-Leadership provides the kind of tangible, actionable roadmap for leadership that I wish I'd had when I started out as an entrepreneur. Its real-world examples show the value of leading with authenticity and what can happen when leaders consider the positive impact that compassionate leadership can have on their people.'- Kristen Hadeed, Founder and CEO of Student Maid Speaker, and author of Permission To Screw Up

How do you create a unifying future narrative for your organisation? In an era of growing awareness regarding biodiversity, climate, and new guidelines such as ESG, sustainability is transforming our society. Stefaan Vandist draws inspiration from groundbreaking examples where the intersection of science, technology, and creativity converge. His mission? To encourage organisations to 'Provotype': construct future scenarios with softness, making them visible and tangible to elicit significant engagement. Discover how this approach stimulates impactful innovation and turn this book into your toolbox for a more sustainable and connected future.

Event planner is the reference work for anyone who wants to turn their event into a huge success. This book will help you to organise all kinds of events, from festivals to team-building; from the earliest preparations to the post-event evaluation. It is full of practical tips and handy checklists for budding organisers and professionals alike.  It zooms in on all the most current and most relevant event trends. You will learn how AI can contribute to your event, how you can best ensure the safety of your crew and guests, and how to deal with cyber security and privacy. There is also a brand-new chapter covering the organisation of weddings. As a result, Event planner is a complete toolbox for making your event truly memorable.

The CARE Principles - Leadership Playbook leads us into the new era of leadership. This book shows us how to bridge the gap between different and diverse generations in our teams using the CARE Principles: Collaboration, Agility, Reliability, and Empathy. Through an easy 20 step process, practical tips and real-life stories from leaders like you, it breaks down how CARE can transform your team, making them perform better and feel truly engaged with your organisation. The time for new leadership action is now.

In today’s competitive and inflationary environment, many organisations are focused on containing costs, yet they also realise that they need to do their utmost to attract and retain the best talent. This makes it increasingly important to optimise the return on their investment in reward. In a present and future where talent is a scarce resource, what can organisations do to stand out from the crowd as an employer of choice? Traditionally, this means offering higher salaries and larger benefit packages. This has two major disadvantages: it is not enough to compel employees to stay and it erodes profitability, making it unsustainable in the long run. This realisation is forcing organisations to take a long, hard look at their reward practices and find new ways to tackle the issue. This book looks at how emerging trends like GenAI, increased transparency and the increasing cost of living impact reward. Instead of focusing purely on financial benefits, the five-pillar approach outlined in these pages takes organisations on an investigation of every aspect of their current reward system: from evaluating the value of jobs within the organisation and benchmarking salaries across their industry or region, to carrying out employee preference studies that ask employees which financial and non-financial benefits they value. The resulting reward systems speak for themselves: cost-efficient, customisable, flexible and compelling reward that attracts and retains key talent. How can your organisation benefit?

Some people still experience personal branding as a show of ego. Which it can be.Most people see personal branding as a tool for business growth and wealth, which it is.But there are more fulfilling reasons to engage in the process of personal branding like building intellectual legacy and becoming a brave new human. If you want to engage in building a legacy, but not want to be blindsided by aspects like fame and hunt for money, then this is the book on personal branding you need. It offers you the complete range of what it can mean to you, not only the social media aspect."With this book, ianka succeeds in describing personal branding on a strategic level. ianka's broad professional background makes this book particularly strong and valuable. She has experienced nearly everything a personal brand can go through in her career. A look behind the scenes and the sharing of that experience adds immense value. I highly recommend this book to everyone!" — Steven Van Belleghem, entrepreneur and author"In a world of information overload and AI, developing your own authentic voice is more important than ever. How do you build unique visibility in a world of the Never Normal? ianka has written a wonderful book that makes you reflect on your own journey, your own development, and how you can find and strengthen that unique voice." — Peter Hinssen, entrepreneur and author"ianka has not only dared to breathe new life into an existing concept, but she has also ventured to create a book tailored to each individual reader. I sincerely wish I had been able to read this book much earlier because it helps me as a person, but also because it helps me make companies and their leaders better." — Rik Vera, business philosopher and author

We are living in an age of accelerated change. The internet has washed away all limitations on time and space. Entrepreneurship has been democratised, and economies have globalised. Innovation has rendered entire sectors irrelevant in the blink of an eye. This is the reality any manager has to take into account in order to keep his company viable. Disruption@WORK taps into the roots of disruptive change, and offers a guide in recognising disruption, defining the ways in which it has already had an effect, and what awaits us in tomorrow's board rooms. In doing this, Disruption@WORK provides a view on the factors we have to deal with in bridging the gap between the individual, his work and corporate strategy, in order to face the future of our companies.

There is a way leading to the realisation of our dreams for each and every one of us. The difficult part is finding it. Based upon the power of authenticity in music, together with the most pressing perspectives of contemporary thought leaders, Dreamers Who Do allows you to create a climate of safety: a personal climate in which you and/or others are inspired to take action. This book reveals the four dimensions of purpose that drive 'dreamers who do': they dream, stand up, push through, and above all they continuously let love rule. Draws from the insights of musicians like Lenny Kravitz and thought leaders such as Simon Sinek, Maya Angelou, George Kohlrieser and William Ury to reaching your dreams or those of others. Features illustrations by artist Koen Vanmechelen.

At the highest level, athletes (both men and women), do everything to peak at the right moment and go the extra mile to reach their top form. But this kind of intensity is not always possible in a job or in daily life, and it is not always healthy to go the extra mile. Egopreneurhelps you to assess your strengths in order to find more balance and resilience in your work and private life. This book is by a well-known sports and business coach, whose insights will help to maximise functionality and balance in this complex world.