«- Zazie, déclare Gabriel en prenant un air majestueux trouvé sans peine dans son répertoire, si ça te plaît de voir vraiment les Invalides et le tombeau véritable du vrai Napoléon, je t'y conduirai. - Napoléon mon cul, réplique Zazie. Il m'intéresse pas du tout, cet enflé, avec son chapeau à la con. - Qu'est-ce qui t'intéresse alors ? Zazie ne répond pas. - Oui, dit Charles avec une gentillesse inattendue, qu'est-ce qui t'intéresse ? - Le métro.»
You can't sit still. You don't like unannounced visitors. You always triple-check if the lights are out. But you also see details that no-one else notices. You're always coming up with surprising solutions. You can focus intensely for hours at a stretch. Usually without realising it, many people lie somewhere on the spectrum of a neurodivergent condition. We often tend to focus on the many downsides of neurodivergent conditions such as AD(H)D, ASD, dyslexia and OCD. This book takes a different approach by looking in depth at the special talents that go hand in hand with these conditions. Whether you already have a diagnosis or simply feel you're somewhere on the neuroatypical spectrum, one thing is certain: once you've identified your unique talents, you'll be able to make more focused choices in your life and work. You'll discover which jobs best showcase your talents, which colleagues complement your personality, and which environments and corporate cultures are right for you.
Companies face increasingly turbulent times. To what extent are the traditional strategy models still relevant to deal with this new environment? This new book presents how to analyze turbulent environments, how to build new strategies, and how to implement them. Through many case studies managers of large and smaller companies can learn how to successfully react to fundamental change. It covers these topics: 1. What is turbulence: disruption vs. disturbance. 2. Corporate foresight/sensing turbulence (incl. scenario analysis) 3. Choosing the right turbulence strategy 4. Implementing turbulence strategies.
The twenty-first century began with an ecological shutdown, a climatic breakdown, a financial meltdown, and a virological lockdown. Without systemic change, twenty years from now we will be haunted more by the things we didn't do than by the things we did. That change is possible, if we can cure ourselves from our addiction to short-term investments, and turn them into long-term, planet-saving investments in nature. Saved by the Tree Frog puts forward how agriculture, politics and economy can reinforce each other. It explores the ways in which we can bring about real change, and transform into a sustainable and thriving society. Saved by the Tree Frog tells us what we can do to turn the tide, and offers an innovative insight into our fundamental dependence on nature. It is the way to a sustainable future - if only we are brave enough to take the plunge.
In Why Now? Michael Humblet teaches you how to create the right pitch to maximize your impact and speed up the conversion of prospects into customers. Learn how to tailor sales and closing techniques to the needs of your prospects to formulate the ultimate sales pitch. Humblet's phone rings: 'Michael, people are interested in our product, and we write scores of offers but take-up is poor. What are we doing wrong?' Humblet's reply is invariably: 'Why should a customer buy from you today? Why now?' Sales pitches will fail if this fundamental issue is not addressed, a problem Humblet encounters in 90% of his client companies. They know how to identify prospects, but they do not have a compeling story, tailored to individual prospects. Humblet's clients want to know how to speed up the sales process and close more deals. Humblet tells you how in Why Now? Having optimised more than 500 sales pitches, in Why Now? Humblet shares the five elements needed to turn prospects into customers. With case studies and before and after examples, Why Now? gives you a blueprint for how to best describe your offer in a sales pitch, website, brochure or sales offer and gives you proven tools to close deals. You will learn how to create the ultimate sales flow. It's closing time!
Janice has been through rough times in her life. She got caught in the lifestyle which every young girl or woman can relate to. Experience is the best teacher. Being involved in Molestation, Abuse, Cheating, and the hustle, she found herself in a ruff situation over and over again, and this time she did not know how to get out it. Having a child at a very young age with a guy she only knew for a couple of months have turned her life around, but with mom Vicky, and Carmen to help, it all worked out for the best. Living a fast lifestyle, becoming a woman meeting a guy name Tommy, who took care of her in a time of need. Janice got back in touch with Desmond her teenage love, her life changed, not only being destroyed outside, but it broke her inside. Desmond told her what to do, and what not to do and she had no where to run to, the abuse did not stop. Janice was in this unhealthy relationship for six years, until she got fed up, and said enough was enough. She finally let him go but the only thing that saved her life was Desmond getting locked up in jail for three years. Prepare yourself on a journey, and read the process of what happened along the way. Raheme was patiently waiting for Janice. He fell in love with her the first time he met her. Janice was still in a love with Desmond. She finally gave in to Raheme and he was the perfect man for her. Will he put up with her drama and stay with his family, or will he stand up to Desmond? Desmond who is still incarcerated will be released soon.
How to create a successful company-wide digital transformation? Bring all the employees on board. The much-needed digital transformation that organizations and companies have to make often causes tension and uncertainty for many. Besides finding the latest technologies and applying them, it is equally important to streamline internal processes and move the organization to adapt to these new ways of working and thinking. Success largely depends on the willingness of all employees to participate. This book teaches how to place people first in a digital transformation process. It shows how to look at the relationship between people and technology and help everyone get on board.
Véritable traversée de l'histoire moderne et contemporaine de la BD, l'exposition « Bande dessinée (1964-2024) », présentée au niveau 6, met en dialogue pour la première fois en France ses trois principaux foyers d'expression : la création européenne, les mangas asiatiques et les comics américains. En douze thématiques et par un jeu d'échos inattendus entre les auteurs, elle convoque les imaginaires de la bande dessinée, les émotions qu'elle suscite, ainsi que la diversité des techniques employées. L'aventure, le rêve, le rire, la science-fiction, l'architecture ou encore le récit intime sont autant de thématiques explorées. Parmi la centaine de personnalités incontournables rassemblées, une attention particulière est accordée aux femmes. Le catalogue s'attache à reproduire des planches originales, des dessins de couverture, des carnets, ainsi que des éléments de documentation, mettant en valeur la beauté du trait et la variété des techniques employées, au plus près du processus créatif. L'ensemble des textes est pensé pour offrir une approche accessible et ambitieuse sur un sujet aussi vaste et passionnant que le 9e art. Parmi eux, on peut noter notamment un entretien de Joe Sacco avec le critique Paul Gravett, ainsi qu'un essai de Tristan Garcia : « Bande dessinée et littérature : des sisters arts ».
Il y a 150 ans, le 15 avril 1874, ouvre à Paris la première exposition impressionniste.
Pour célébrer cet anniversaire, le musée d'Orsay présente quelque 130 oeuvres, et porte
un regard neuf sur cette date-clé, considérée comme le coup d'envoi des avant-gardes.
« Affamés d'indépendance », Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley ou encore
Cézanne ont décidé de s'affranchir des règles en organisant leur propre exposition,
en dehors des voies officielles : l'impressionnisme est né. Que s'est-il passé exactement
en ce printemps 1874 à Paris, et quel sens donner aujourd'hui à une exposition devenue
mythique ? « Paris 1874. L'instant impressionniste » propose de retracer l'avènement d'un
mouvement artistique surgi dans un monde en pleine mutation
« Paris 1874 » fait le point sur les circonstances ayant mené ces 31 artistes à se réunir pour
exposer ensemble leurs oeuvres. Le climat de la période est celui d'un après-guerre,
faisant suite à deux conflits : la Guerre franco-allemande de 1870, puis une violente guerre
civile. Dans ce contexte de crise les artistes repensent leur art et explorent de nouvelles
directions. Un petit « clan des révoltés » peint des scènes de la vie moderne, ou des
paysages aux tons clairs et à la touche enlevée, croqués en plein air. Comme le note
un observateur, « ce qu'ils semblent rechercher avant tout, c'est l'impression ».
Une sélection d'oeuvres ayant figuré à l'exposition impressionniste de 1874 est mise en
perspective avec des tableaux et sculptures montrés au même moment au Salon officiel.
Cette confrontation inédite permet de restituer le choc visuel des oeuvres alors exposées
par les impressionnistes, mais aussi de le nuancer, par des parallèles et recoupements
inattendus entre la première exposition impressionniste et le Salon. Elle montre ainsi les
contradictions et l'infinie richesse de la création contemporaine en ce printemps 1874,
tout en soulignant la modernité radicale de l'art de ces jeunes artistes.
La référence sur l'histoire de l'art dans un nouveau format de poche, avec une nouvelle préface de la petite-fille de l'auteur.
Histoire de l'art est un best-seller dans le monde entier depuis plus de soixante-dix ans. Attirés par la simplicité et la clarté de son propos, les lecteurs de tous âges et de tous horizons ont trouvé dans le professeur Gombrich un maître qui allie savoir, sagesse et un don pour transmettre sa passion pour le sujet. Remis au goût du jour, avec une nouvelle couverture et une préface de Leonie, la petite-fille du professeur Gombrich, ce format de poche confirme le succès de cette oeuvre classique auprès des amateurs d'art et va devenir un ouvrage de référence pour les générations futures.
Disruptive Workplaces offers a fresh perspective on facility management (FM) and the design of workplaces, adapted to the rapid changes of our times. This book presents a practical, step-by-step approach for creating a sustainable and future-proof work environment. Whether you are a facility manager, HR manager, chief happiness officer, or a member of the management team, you will find relatable international examples and gain valuable tips & tricks. With an easy-to-follow plan, the book guides you towards effective change.
Creative and hands-on approach to sustainability
Packed with practical insights
Featuring inspiring stories from national and international pioneers
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.
Dans une bonne photographie, tout compte jusqu'au moindre détail. Mais que représentent-elles vraiment ? Sont-elles des fenêtres sur la réalité ou ont-elles une signification plus profonde ? Dans cet ouvrage, Laurent Jullier présente les approches fondamentales pour analyser et interpréter les photographies. Chaque chapitre présente des concepts clés comme la mise au point, la perspective, l'infographie afin de nous aider à comprendre pourquoi les photographies captent notre attention et nous émeuvent. Des pionniers aux visionnaires et aux innovateurs, l'auteur examine les oeuvres de photographes internationaux parmi lesquels Dorothea Lange, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Aïda Muluneh ou encore Brassaï. Cet ouvrage captivant, accompagné d'un glossaire, fournit les outils nécessaires pour se poser les bonnes questions face à la photographie et révéler les histoires contenues dans chaque image.
En 1981, François Truffaut, l'ancien fougueux critique de cinéma, livre ses secrets de cinéma et fait l'autocritique de ses propres films. En s'appuyant sur des scènes et des anecdotes de tournage, ce dernier revisite, avec émotion et franchise, sa carrière des Mistons (1957) à La Femme d'à côté (1981). Des échanges précieux dans lesquels il se remémore la genèse des films, révèle leurs secrets de fabrication et n'hésite pas à juger avec sévérité certains de ses partis pris de mise en scène. Ces entretiens richement illustrés dessinent en filigrane le portrait d'un immense artiste. Plus qu'une leçon de cinéma, ils livrent une réponse à la question fondamentale : qu'est-ce que le cinéma ?
Un recueil sur la représentation du chat dans l'ensemble de l'art du XIXe siècle, du cabaret du Chat noir fondé par Rodolphe Salis aux oeuvres d'Edouard Manet, en passant par celles de Pierre Bonnard ou Auguste Renoir entre autres.
The spread of capsular civilization is a worst-case scenario that is taking shape before our very eyes, without us even being aware of it. In the face of the speed of our technology, the suburbanization of our daily lives and the ever more extreme but poignant polarization of our society, we feel obliged to return to the capsules of our vehicles, in architectural cocoons or urbanistic enclaves: malls, gated communities, amusement parks. Since September 11, the war in Iraq and the War on Terrorism, it has been almost impossible to dissociate architecture from its political and social context. Add to this the massive influence of capitalism on architecture, the disturbing demographic developments and the associated political, social and ecological catastrophes, and you get the robotic snapshot of a society dominated by fear, exclusion and simulation. De Cauter sketches a realistic and alarming account of the new world order that is an everyday concern for the architects and planners of the contemporary city as well as for its inhabitants and users.
Mothmeister is the nonstop morphing alter ego of two artistic soulmates based in Belgium, home of surrealism. In their eerie Post-Mortem Fairy Tales, they portray a series of masked, grotesque characters - often accompanied by startling stuffed animals and a variety of curiosa from their private collection.
Just like in the Victorian era, when deceased loved ones were photographed as a memento for grieving relatives, Mothmeister immortalizes animals in a weird and wonderful fairy-tale world.
In addition to the numerous eccentric portraits in this book, Mothmeister also reveals a unique look behind the mask: from the duo's intriguing adventures in the world's most abandoned places to their untamed passion for taxidermy, masks and fascinating on-the-road images, exposing their quenchless Wanderlust.
How can you turn your customers into ambassadors for your brand? How can you map out your own network? How can you achieve maximum results with limited resources? Brand ambassadorship is the best way to predict the future growth and success of your company. Google, Tesla and Apple all use ambassadorship to ensure their continued expansion. It is a highly valuable and effective marketing channel that can be actively used by companies of all sizes to achieve the most remarkable results. Create Your Own Superfans is a clear and practical guidebook for successfully dealing with all matters related to brand ambassadors, recommendations and word-of mouth advertising. A series of concrete cases, fascinating stories and useful tips will allow you to discover just how powerful brand ambassador marketing truly is and how you can ensure that your customers and your employees talk positively about your company and recommend it to others.
'All new technology is accompanied with great expectations on the one hand and great fear on the other. Thierry Geerts reduces the digital revolution to its true proportions and shows that we control the impact of technology ourselves: technology becomes what we make of it. Few are better placed than the author to clearly define the potential, the tasks, and the responsibility that awaits each and every one of us.' - Caroline Pauwels, rector of the VUB 'After Digitalis drew up the contours of the new digital world, Homo digitalis now describes how we can appropriate it so that digitalisation will benefit humanity. But instead of trying to convince at all costs, Thierry Geerts puts things in perspective. With great expertise, he guides us through numerous groundbreaking initiatives that start-ups and companies in Europe have often developed.'- Alain Gerlache, journalist 'This book couldn't have come out at a better time. Change can be scary for many, but above all, it brings many opportunities. Thierry Geerts fantastically explains how Digitalis can be an inclusive place where social mobility and equality are self-evident. Now it's up to our entrepreneurs, policymakers, and each of us as individuals to gear up and resolutely opt for the digital future.' - Yasmien Naciri, entrepreneur and marketer 'Think about the reasons for technology. That is the challenge that Thierry Geerts takes on with gusto and enthusiasm in this fascinating book.' - Laurent Hublet, co-founder and CEO of BeCentral, the largest digitalis campus in Europe In Homo digitalis, Thierry Geerts, CEO of Google Belgium and Luxembourg, looks at the dangers and opportunities of the digital revolution. Without taboos and with an eye to the future, he offers thoughtful examples of how digitalisation affects us as people and as a society. His conclusion is clear: technology is neutral, and it's up to people to use it consciously and confidently. If we do that, digitalisation will make us happier, with more time for creativity, personal development, healthcare, and the things that really matter. Then we'll become more human and we homo sapiens will turn into homo digitalis.
Change management without clichés. Whether you are running a multinational or just running a family, change is not like a game of Monopoly, where your piece saunters sedately around the board from start to finish. Instead, it is much more like a game of Ludo, where you can have a number of pieces on the board at the same time, some of which are moving and some of which are not! This is just like in real life, because not moving is also a form of change management. With many years of worldwide experience, Yves Van Durme demonstrates how change can be much easier if you do not automatically regard it as a problem, but see it more as a question of the right mindset. In addition, you will learn more about his highly individualist views on leadership, in which the world of games is never far off. Whether you peruse the book from cover to cover or whether you just dip into it at random, by the end of your reading you will know exactly what kind of leader you are. You will also discover that change is really no more than child's play.
Every entrepreneur dreams to find a success formula to quickly go viral with his/her product or service. Carole Lamarque believes that this formula for success exists, in nature. It's called a Zoonotic: a virus that is spreading virally all over the world at lightning speed. In this book, she demonstrates with concrete examples how a zoonotic pandemic such as Covid-19 can inspire a successful viral business strategy.
"A fabulous book: insightful, useful and timely! This page-turner takes you on a journey through great psychological research, interesting stories and practical techniques. You will arrive equipped for a life of more control, more optimism and less stress." Tony Crabbe, business psychologist and author of Busy. How to Thrive in a World of Too Much.
"Technology allows us to rethink companies, organizations, how we run them and how we manage them. However, the most essential element in achieving success will not be technology, but whether we humans can adapt, cope and thrive. This inspiring book is a brilliant field guide on how to use the power of our minds to harness the power of flow and build organizations for resilience." Peter Hinssen, entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author of The Day After Tomorrow. How to Survive in Times of Radical Innovations.
Every crisis is also an opportunity. We know what we need to do to make our lives and work more brain-friendly, but somehow, we are still not putting that knowledge into practice. Covid-19 has forced us into one of the biggest experiments in resilience of all time. What if we see this crisis as an opportunity for a genuine transformation? A chance to adopt new habits that will make us stronger than ever and help us face a volatile future? In her ground-breaking new book, Elke Geraerts shows us how we can all be ready for the many challenges awaiting us in a post-covid-19 world. Her approach takes the brain as the starting point and inspires you to make brain-aware choices in work and in life. She shows how hybrid work can both increase your productivity and reduce stress, how you can chase your dreams even in times of crisis and why - in an increasingly digital world - focus is the new IQ. The old normal will never return... but perhaps that is not such a bad thing!
Everyone Can Lead addresses the essential question of leadership: how do you bring out the best in yourself and in others? Starting from the premise that a better understanding of how to lead begins with a better understanding of ourselves, the author encourages reflection and helps frame the choices and actions that will lead to better working relationships, better results, and more happiness at work. This no-nonsense, practical book is filled with examples and exercises that everyone from individual employees to CEOs can use immediately. HR managers and general management can work with these concepts and strategies to optimize the potential in their organization by focusing on personal leadership.
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