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Twenty years ago, the boss over boss principle was overthrown by shared leadership. Shared leadership means that, as a team and as an employee, you are given the freedom to assume your leadership role according to the customer and your own talents, ambitions and capabilities. Leadership is thus no longer narrowed down to a hierarchy. And that has its advantages: the organization can respond faster to changes, teams become more performant, as an employee you become more involved, etc.

(This webinar is in Dutch.)

Two earners are the norm in our society today. According to the most recent figures, an estimated 65% of families in Flanders consist of two working partners (Bourdeaud'hui et al., 2019). Combining a busy work week and children in the home is not always easy for couples. Dual earners with young children are more sensitive to stress and regularly experience conflict between work and family responsibilities (Allen & Finkelstein, 2014). Recent Flemish research also shows that becoming a mother or father is highly impactful with implications for returning to work (Abraham, 2022). How do we best address this?

Setting the scene: Sustainable careers and career mobility in Belgium and the Netherlands.

This white paper is the first of three in the series. With this series, we want to unravel careers in Belgium and the Netherlands and give expression to the different career stories of employees.

Do you want to learn more about the framework in which we can understand careers today? Then dive in our white paper.

In collaboration with House of HR.

This white paper is also available in Dutch.

From March 15 through 18 the global real estate industry gathered in Cannes for MIPIM 2022. This year’s theme was ‘Driving Urban Change’, and, just like last year’s edition ‘New World: New Era, Time to Reconnect’, social sustainability remained a pressing topic. This is a great opportunity to revisit the European Union’s (EU) ESG taxonomy regulation, the final report on social taxonomy, and what this exactly means for the real estate sector.

What should the real estate sector do about it?

Being creative and thinking in business terms: it is a combination that is still difficult in the cultural sector. And that is often not only a matter of not being able to, but also of not wanting to. After all, artistic freedom is difficult to squeeze into a business model, isn't it? Annick Schramme, professor at Antwerp Management School and UA, sees it differently: it is precisely through a well thought-out business model that you can continue to bring art and culture, even in times of crisis.

The future will be better than you think – and the reason is that there is a breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society and the economy, and it’s gathering momentum. I call it THRIVING and I tell the positive story of this bubbling revolution in my book "THRIVING: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy. But I won’t lie – we are in a race for our lives. Our choices matter now more than ever. The decisions we make and the actions we take in the next 10 years will determine whether our life support systems break down or break through. In this short article, I summarize some of the most important lessons from the book.

How to ensure sustainable employment of your current employees?

Simply investing in recruitment is useless if there is no good foundation to build upon. With Welt, Voka and Antwerp Management School work together with companies to create 'Endless Careers for All Talent' (Welt).

Want to know more about the pillars of Voka Welt? Then dive into our white paper (in Dutch).

The increased digitization of the world we live and work in, has given rise to an increasing number of cyber threats and IT-risks. Over the past few years, we’ve seen a huge surge in the number, the intensity, and the sophistication of the attacks. But it’s not all doom and gloom. With proper technical solutions such as firewalls, antivirus programs , back-ups and a no-trust attitude, companies can better defend themselves.

ABIS - The Academy of Business in Society and Antwerp Management School organized the Value Creation Roundtable in January 2021. Numerous leading companies, such as the Port of Antwerp, Johnson & Johnson, ABN AMRO and Value Balancing Alliance, participated.

The exchange of their knowledge, competencies and ideas on sustainable transformation and the positive impact between key sustainability actors resulted in a report.