Chez Pascale est le restaurant imaginaire que Pascale Naessens dirige depuis des années. Elle y cuisine uniquement pour ses amis et sa famille, comme tous ceux qui cuisinent à la maison. La couverture est un beau reflet de son bistrot imaginaire. En fait, tous ceux qui cuisinent à la maison dirigent leur propre restaurant. Chaque jour, c'est un défi de mettre sur la table des plats frais, pour que nos proches soient enthousiastes et satisfaits. Avec ce livre, Pascale souhaite vous faire (re)découvrir le plaisir de cuisiner et vous inspirer avec 80 plats simples mais originaux. Pour que vous puissiez profiter pleinement de ces agréables moments à table à la maison.
Henk van Rensbergen is a Boeing 787 pilot who flies around the globe. While his crew rests at the swimming pool, he goes out to explore abandoned places in our world. From the breakaway state of Abkhazia, a floating warship cemetery in France, a forgotten love hotel in Japan to an abandoned rail depot in Detroit, van Rensbergen searches for the beauty of their desolation and pinpoints the richness of their decay. Van Rensbergen is a pioneering urban explorer. His Abandoned Places photo books (1, 2, 3 and The Photographer's Selection) have been highly successful. This complete revised edition shows his most iconic photos of the past 25 years, including new unpublished material and anecdotes.
Renee & Matthew Hahnel, two professional travel photographers, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime ... a seven month journey to every national park in America. Over the course of this epic road trip, they traveled through 39 states, two US territories, drove over 25,000 miles, took 26 flights, and hiked hundreds of miles across some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet.
Roaming America tells their story through breathtaking imagery and musings from the road that will set your wanderlust into overdrive. The Hahnel's also share their personal experiences, and give away their insider tips to help you plan your own national parks adventure!
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.
What if customers expect more than just a good product, excellent service and perfectly performing digital interfaces? And what if new technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and robotics offer possibilities that go beyond mere ease of use?
Digital ease of use is the new minimum. It has become a commodity. The customer now regards it as the most normal thing in the world to have access to limitless products and services with just a single click of a mouse. In the years ahead, companies will need to play an active role in the 'life journey' of customers: helping to make their dreams come true and removing problems from their daily lives. In addition, customers are looking increasingly to companies instead of governments to tackle societal challenges like climate change, health care and mobility.
If your company succeeds in providing outstanding digital service, becomes a partner in the life of your customers and provides solutions for major societal issues, you will develop 'an offer you can't refuse'.
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.
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 organizations 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.
Why?
Practical playbook with step-by-step guidance for collaborative innovation
Unique, validated tools and repeatable processes to drive consistent innovation
Insights from industry leaders with real experience in startup collaboration
What?
Clear understanding of collaborative innovation processes and how to assess readiness
Tools to define success factors and identify high-potential startup partners
Strategies to build long-term, trust-based win-win collaborations
Guidance to overcome typical challenges in startup-corporate partnerships
Who?
Leaders and professionals
Startups aiming to understand and collaborate with larger corporations.
Innovation hubs, incubators, accelerators, startup networks, and training centers.
At birth you are completely your pure self. The ability you then have to let your essence shine through your outer form, gradually becomes overshadowed and buried under many layers as you become more and more influenced by your environment and distracted by many external things that demand your attention. This book encourages you to get back on track with your essence.
Through real-life illustrations, you will learn to recognise countless expressions of life energy in nature, in your body - which is part of nature - and in the cosmos. These signposts can serve to expand your consciousness, from what is clearly observable to more subtle life processes. Through being present with yourself and others from your essence, you invite transformation and healing and can experience the full potential of being human.
This exploration process begins with your feet on the ground. Treading a path of wonder, stillness and connection with who you are in the depth of your being, more direction and meaning gradually unfold. This book emphasises personal development, offering realistic starting points for fundamental social change and a worldview that embraces differences.
Organisations today face deep uncertainty and growing pressure to transform - from within and from the world around them.
Signs of disconnection are everywhere: between people and purpose, brand and behaviour, profit and planet. The Power of impact is intended for leaders who recognise that tension and want to act. Leaders who care about doing the right thing, making meaningful impact, and bringing coherence to what their organisation thinks, does and values.
This book presents two key frameworks: the Transformational Spiral®, guiding a participative journey, and the Coherence Compass®, which uncovers misalignments between purpose, behaviour, culture and space. It offers a practical, personal guide to reveal the invisible, reconnect what matters, and build organisations that are future-fit, inspiring, and truly worth believing in.
In a world where data abounds, it's all about valorization: turning raw data into valuable insights, applications and innovations. This book shows how companies can turn data into competitive advantage, new products, more efficient processes, and stronger customer relationships. You'll discover the strategic, technological and ethical building blocks of data valorization - with real-world examples, concrete tools and clear insights.
Why?
Data is the new gold, but how do you monetize it? Companies have masses of data, but only exploit a fraction of its potential.
Understanding how to use data strategically makes the difference between surviving and excelling.
The book provides a practical and ethical framework for sustainable, profitable and responsible data applications.
What?
Accessible explanation of the principles of data valorization, without jargon
Practical examples from various sectors: from retail to logistics and industry
Tools and models to turn data insights into concrete actions
Attention to data quality, governance, privacy and ROI of data initiatives
For whom?
A must-read for managers, innovators and entrepreneurs who want to make their organizations data-wise and future-oriented.
For innovation strategists, digital transformation experts and business developers who want to use data smartly and responsibly for growth, efficiency and customer focus.
"WHAT DRIVES THE NEW CONSUMER?
WHY IS DATA THE NEW GOLD AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A BLESSING?
HOW CAN YOU REDESIGN YOUR ORGANIZATION AND SUSTAINABLY ENSURE ITS RELEVANCE?
Technology continues to change the world. In order to keep evolving as a manager, you have to find inspiration in that world. You have to have the courage to read the signals, to fully dedicate yourself to the needs of the customer, to focus on opportunities and to keep experimenting. Above all, you need to connect with as large a public as possible and simultaneously address every customer individually. This is the only way to survive in an increasingly competitive future.
Managers The Day After Tomorrow reveals the vectors that drive this changing world. Combining insights from sociology, evolutionary theory and psychology, it guides you past the hypes to a new style of management. This book is a handhold for managers in a world that is no longer predictable."
AI Will Replace You shows how organizations 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 organization to become an AI leader.
'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, Nexxworks
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We gebruiken ze elke dag, maar we weten er zo weinig over: onze hersenen. Ons brein is een wonder, een universum dat tot ieders verbeelding spreekt en waar neurowetenschappers nooit op uitgekeken geraken. En hoe beter we kunnen kijken, hoe fascinerender en hoe meer visueel verbluffend het wordt.
Dit boek, ontstaan in de schoot van het Leuven Brain Institute (LBI), ontsluiert aan de hand van prachtige beelden en beeldende tekst waar het breinonderzoek vandaag staat. Met bijdragen van onderzoekers die behoren tot de wereldtop, vol weetjes en bijzondere inzichten.
Waarom?
- Adembenemende, artistieke beelden van hersenstructuren onder de microscoop
- Toonaangevende wetenschappers, onderzoekers en artsen
- Brengt de frontlinie van breinonderzoek tot leven
- Zorgvuldig vormgegeven kunstobject
Wat?
- Combinatie van visuele pracht en diepgaande informatie
- Ontwikkeling en veroudering, geheugen, emoties, ziekten, herstel en toekomst van het brein
- Het brein van jong tot oud
- Mentale en neurologische gezondheid
Voor wie?
- Lezers van populaire medische wetenschap
- Liefhebbers van kunst en fotografie
- Studenten en professionals in de zorg, psychologie, neurologie of biomedische wetenschappen
- Loïc Van Impe vous rend encore plus dingues (de cuisine).
- Cuisinier autodidacte à la télé, Loïc Van Impe est de retour !
- Le mélange le plus fou de plats réconfortants, de pâtisserie, de mets japonais et tant d'autres choses encore.
- Encore plus de bons conseils et d'astuces pour davantage de plaisir à la cuisine.
On peut faire encore plus fou ? Mais bien sûr !
Loïc Van Impe nous emmène de nouveau dans son royaume. Faire soi-même ses plats favoris à emporter ? O.K. Des plats rustiques hyper simples avec un petit plus ? O.K. Des bouchées orientales à partager ? O.K. Son nouveau livre propose un mélange dingue comme tout de recettes les plus diverses, accessibles à tous grâce aux astuces de Loïc !
Loïc Van Impe est fou de cuisine, de faire soi-même son pain, d'aubergines et de se produire à la télé. Suivez ses aventures culinaires à la télé ou sur les médias sociaux.
