Leidinggeven is geen sinecure. Dat ondervond ook Timmie de Pooter. Hij runde meer dan 15 jaar een uitzend- en wervingsbedrijf en kon samen met zijn team de omzet verviervoudigen. Tegelijkertijd worstelde hij met zijn rol als leider en het energieverlies dat zijn baan met zich meebracht.

Hij reflecteerde over zijn parcours en kwam sterker terug. Timmie pende zijn inzichten en aanpak neer in het boek ‘Bring yourself to work’. Wil je zelf aan de slag om een betere leider te worden? Ga dan eerst met je binnenwereld aan de slag.

Published in English

Do you struggle with your role as a leader? Does leading a team or organisation leave you drained and without energy? And how can you build an organisation where people love to work and achieve results at the same time?

Timmie de Pooter has run a staffing and recruitment business for over 15 years. Together with his team, he managed to quadruple revenues, build a strong culture, and serve a broad range of customers (both SMEs and corporate). At the same time, he struggled with his role as a leader and the energy drain that came with his job. In this book, he relates how he overcame these struggles. Inside you will find tips on how to become a better leader, successfully lead a team or organisation and build  humane organisation that achieves beautiful things. And how leading others can actually become… enjoyable.

This book will help you overcome struggles with yourself and your team. It will teach you how to take care of yourself and gain a deeper understanding of who you are as a leader, how to connect with yourself and your colleagues and how you can lead your team to greater things.

For help in English to buy this book: contact pp@diekeure.be

There are lots of books, courses, and videos on innovation. They are fun and usually motivating, but seldom deliver long-term results.

CYCLES is a fun book,  but more importantly, it explains how to innovate at every stage. Consistent winners are idea builders that make good or even mediocre ideas great over time.” With CYCLES you’ll learn by doing how to grow ideas up to 6x faster while cutting risks by over 50%.

This book brings together 4 years of research and the work of 22 innovation experts into a simple system with easy-to-use canvases and tools. The foundation of this system is thinking of idea building as an ongoing process of cycles. Some cycles are short, and some are long. The best cycles include the ABCs of innovation.

A = Align

B = Build ideas

C =Communicate and Check

S =Systematically Improve

This system ties the theories and research from hundreds of books into something easy to understand and something you can do right now.

If you want to be a better innovator, CYCLES will change the way you think about innovation. More importantly, with easy hands-on tools, CYCLES will make it easier to innovate faster while reducing risks.

A little treasure for keeps. Beautifully styled and playfully cunning. A headstrong conviction brought to you with grace and glee.

Author Isabel De Clercq talks to you about Hybrid Work. She speaks out the hope within her. Hope for a better future. The future of the knowledge worker.

Not only does she take you into her own dreams, but also crystallises the future with 7 careful suggestions.

Let yourself be carried away with Isabel’s magnetising prose, sharp pen and refreshing insights.

Isabel hopes you do not read this book in one sitting. Read a suggestion. Close the book. Let the words reverberate.

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Ook verkrijgbaar in Nederlandstalige versie

Se lancer comme entrepreneur n’a jamais semblé aussi facile que de nos jours. Les moyens de transformer une idée créative en une innovation fulgurante, déployée en l’espace de quelques mois sur l’ensemble de la planète semblent plus abordables que jamais. Chaque jour, les entrepreneurs créent de nouveaux métiers, de nouveaux services pour le bien de tous, en intégrant une approche durable de la gestion des ressources.
 
Tout cela semble si simple … ou presque. Sur le chemin qui mène au succès, les obstacles sont souvent imprévisibles, souvent incontrôlables. C’est exactement la raison pour laquelle une méthode entrepreneuriale est indispensable : elle donne une structure pour évaluer et résoudre les problèmes d’une manière systématique.
 
En 28 étapes claires et pratiques, GO! vous aide à réussir votre (projet de) start-up. Vous y trouverez enfin réunis les outils et la méthode qui constitueront les facteurs-clés du succès de votre projet d’entreprise.
 
Présenté de manière didactique et ludique, GO! est le cadre de réflexion nécessaire pour orienter pas à pas vos actions et vous aider à prendre les bonnes décisions.
 
À vous d’entreprendre maintenant !

The biggest hurdle between you and your plans for growth is this: nobody knows you. This is true if you're a freelancer, an employee, an executive, even a company founder. You may be going all out with your company brand, but you've neglected to hone your own. But the first thing your business needs to grow, is you.

If you feel like there is way more potential than you are currently leveraging, this book is for you. It is for those wanting to scale their business. For those sitting on a   great idea with nowhere to go next. For those experts looking for ways to share the knowledge. For those corporate execs who need to find the next competitive edge. And for those who simply want to find another career path.

It is time your prospects, future customers, investors or employer got to know you. Fix this basic flaw of remaining under the radar. With the insights in this book, you'll set out your strategy and create content. Not just any content, but content that matters. Content that makes you tick and brings you the right contacts. Build your thought leadership and leverage it as a mechanism to scale your business - starting with yourself.

This book provides what it promises to the reader, i.e. A financial guide for social entrepreneurs. It departs from the challenges that social entrepreneurs face to fund their ventures. We discuss three main challenges in this context:

1. Access to funding;
2. Complexity of business models;
3. Predominant focus on social impact.

This book offers an overview of the different funding possibilities while presenting the main funding actors in Belgium as an illustration. Yet, we think that more is needed to survive the financial wilderness of social entrepreneurship. Therefore, we advise attention to a solid business model, supportive ecosystem, impact measurement and effective communication. The illustrative case studies and the presentation of ecosystem actors that can provide support to social entrepreneurs make this book a quite practical guide. All cases and ecosystem actors presented here come from the Belgian context, which is what we know best. We are confident that this Belgian view can inspire the international community as well. This book could be useful to social entrepreneurs, impact investors, universities, vocational training centers, corporates supporting social entrepreneurs, social impact incubators and accelerators, policymakers or everyone who wants to help a social enterprise in their journey. And please enjoy reading, our societies need more social entrepreneurship!

Building trustful Partnerships for Growth

In the past 30 years, technology has caused waves of disruptive developments, each crashing onto society and business alike. With the tide building and the pace accelerating, the next wave promises to come in big. These new challenges have a societal and environmental impact, are systemic and increasingly complex.

Our old ways of doing business don’t suffice anymore. Furthermore, the future is too fast and too complex to go at it alone. In the future, competition will happen on the level of ecosystems, not just on the level of companies, products or services.

This book gives companies the tools to build mutually beneficial, equal and sincere partnerships. We call them metasystems. And we believe them to be the most suitable armor for the next decade. Metasystems are built on trust and purpose. The biggest challenge is how to leverage the soft side, the human factor again.

“It’s a pivotal time, both exciting and frightening. By joining forces, we believe businesses can accelerate, innovate and create a desirable future horizon.” - Dado Van Peteghem

“The war of all against all has ended. It’s time to reinstate the essence of business: collaborating to fuel progress and a prosperous future.” - Nils van Dam

Increase your social impact

People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy.

How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy statement? And how about growing your impact? Will you choose for scaling up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by the impact point of view and discover how you can grow the impact of your organisation too.

This book reveals strategies of a diversity of organisations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in growing their social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organisation you are spending your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or ecologically.

How do you innovate, how do you structure your organization, your team, your personal life? You need a detailed plan and everything laid out for the future! Really? Well, maybe not always. Maybe you need to operate also with the Spaghetti Principle.

Discover how you can embrace this special principle and really make innovation stick. Specifically, you will learn how to deal in today’s dynamic and uncertain environment.

With practical examples from leaders and companies you will see how a totally different approach to strategy and innovation can revolutionize your work. With examples from fields as diverse as the Startup world, nature, opera, TED, Lars Sudmann will awaken you to an inspiring and thought-provoking journey of innovation. You will see innovation and experimentation with different eyes after reading this book.

Lars Sudmann has been a CFO and a strategy manager at leading organisations. He is now a corporate advisor, university lecturer and explorer of what makes innovation and change possible.

Decode the data landscape. Reboot your sales and marketing. Prepare for the era of AI

Being obsessed with positive change and ideas can propel us to extraordinary achievements and can be a fantastic positive driver of change.

In the age of AI wired consumers with irrationally high demands, we need to be obsessed with creating smooth, differentiated, relevant, exciting customer experiences and frictionless customer services. Any of those interactions should be driven by customer data - the pulse of every customer’s unique heartbeat, and an organisation that has adopted new methodologies, processes, and technology platforms.

In Obsessed, we demystify the complex world of data and sales and marketing technology. We answer questions like: How do you build a data culture and strategy? How can you be more intentional about the technology foundation you choose to improve your marketing and sales engine across the customer lifecycle. How do you create an obsession for the right metrics that focus on value? How do you infuse Artifical Intelligence capabilities into your organization? Can you see GDPR as an enabler?

Finally, we need a cultural paradigm shift in dealing with marketing technology and applying it to marketing and sales scenarios. An obsession with long term thinking and customer relationships based on value rather than short term. And that’s when you truly start rebooting your revenue engine.

Expressing yourself in a powerful way is not a gift, it’s a choice.
 
Are you tired of bumping into corporate walls? Not getting the budget, job or promotion that you want? Are you fed up with other people always being heard, while your ideas are being ignored? Are you struggling to network and pitch your business? Is a dry mouth and shaky voice the only thing you associate with speaking in front of a group? Do you just freeze when someone is giving you a hard time in a meeting and tries to take over?
 
If the answer is yes, then it’s time for you to STAND UP.
 
Everybody can learn to express themselves in a powerful way. No matter what other people claim. It’s not a gift, it’s a choice. Inspiring and convincing people to take action on your ideas starts with you, your story and how you bring it. This book will show you exactly how to do that.
 
Follow the five steps and discover how to:

• raise your energy and credibility
• earn attention and trust
• take people into your world
• become the solution
• trigger action

After reading this book, you will positively STAND OUT in any situation. Because standing up is the only way you can stand out in life and business.

Let’s inspire action!

Public Employment Services are confronted with the ever-changing world of work from various angles: as organisation, as employer and as key actor on the labour market. Decisive mega trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts or migration, driven by tremendous technological developments and characterised by a considerable extent of complexity and volatility, have a huge impact on our labour markets and finally on PES.

Guiding citizens through this (r)evolution and supporting them to manage necessary or desired transitions is a shared challenge of European PES and a huge public responsibility PES are actively taking up. Thereby PES are contributing to well-balanced labour markets which are essential for sustainable growth and for maintaining our social welfare supporting systems.

PES jointly develop solutions through exchanging and learning from each other, rethinking practices and policies and continuously improving their organisations for more sustainable and inclusive labour markets and in order to better serve employers and jobseekers. This book gives an insight into PES policies and practices which are inspired by the close collaboration in the PES Network. PES Network members reflect on their European-wide learning organisation, they point out challenges and their strategic and operational answers from a national perspective, bringing in valuable personal experience. “PES Policies and Practices” thus touches upon a broad variety of PES core topics and gives you the chance to understand their business in a politically shaped environment, characterised by a unique collaboration.

How the most forward-looking organisations leverage work-life integration to attract talent and foster employee wellbeing

One Life is a must-read guide to successfully adopt work-life integration within your organisation. How can you attract and retain talent, reduce and prevent burnout, engage and motivate employees? You’ll find the answer in this book. Bursting with real examples and multidisciplinary case studies from all over the world, One Life is a fundamental reading for leaders, line-managers and small business owners alike.

The book covers all aspects of Work-Life Integration Management, from theory to practice. It contains the following:

• a framework for organisations to situate work-life issues
• a work-life integration maturity model allowing organisations to assess their current level of maturity, and learn where there is room to grow
• the fundamental elements of Work-Life Integration Management
• a whole chapter dedicated to adidas, and their work-life integration department

After reading this book you’ll be inspired to get to work and take work-life integration in your organisation to the next level.

The Digital Business Cookbook

Thanks to open source, the Cloud and API's, it is easier than ever before to build and release software products to a global audience. As a result, competition is tough, prices are under pressure. The good old recipe of just adding more functionality to your product does not work anymore.

In this book, Peter Verhasselt and Nick Boucart will explore what it takes to build winning digital products today. They’ll focus on the idea that one should stop developing software, and design digital services instead, effectively combining hyperscale with microcare: the ability to establish an intimate relationship with each and every of your thousands of users.

Peter and Nick will discuss the capabilities and processes you need to build such digital services. They zoom in on the kinds of assets you need to develop, and that will greatly influence the valuation, all supported with practical advice and real world examples.

If you are responsible for bringing digital products to the market, this book will give you a head start.

Language: English

“A contemporary strategy for grand goal achievement”

This book is not meant to come up with the typical ten point plan that you find in the plethora of books on “how to…” or “finding the shortcut to…”. It is simply not realistic to impose the one and only way to become a performance beast. We cannot be made immune to personal emotions and our brains work in a very unique way and therefore it seems illogical to accept the restrictions of such ten-point-plans. Dixie Dansercoer surely does not want to preach, generalise or standardise training methods to manipulate people into becoming high performers. Our brains may be trained just like muscles, but people cannot be as easily manipulated as flesh and bones.

The goal is to provide the reader with inspirational insights with respect to high performance, provide him/her with practical guidelines and stories to be read and shared without drowning in all-too-academic theories. The red line of polar exploration allows the author to write from the heart with accounts of his direct experiences. When confronted with the monotony of infinite white, wide-open spaces, one cannot but study the mental and psychological impact of these ambitious expeditions.

Do you have the dedication, discipline and concentration to finish what you set out to do? To be a high performer?

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Startup ideas inspire hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs all over the world.  On the flip side, the majority of entrepreneurial ventures fail. Have you ever wondered what the catalyst for such failure is? Startup failures are complex. Most of them are not caused by stupid or simple mistakes.  So, be careful when you conclude: Startup X failed because of Y. Therefore I should avoid doing Y in my own startup. It is not that simple. Startups fail because of a combination of factors and causes, some of which are almost impossible to put a finger on.

This book is aimed at identifying reasons that can lead even great ideas to complete failure. It also presents how you can make your way around them, earning everlasting growth and prosperity.