Alex Hunter is the nom-de-plume of a well-known, Belgium-based, business school lecturer. He is married, has two grown-up children, a dog and 5,000 square metres of unkempt Belgian countryside, which he refers to as a wildlife garden. Alex Hunter has written three best-selling management books under his ‘real’ name and Shadows is his first thriller.
Following the murder of a young investigative journalist in France, Luc Hansen, an agent of the shadowy DER, the European Union’s security and intelligence directorate, uncovers a massive fraud and arms-smuggling operation orchestrated from within the heart of the European Commission in Brussels.
During their academic careers, students go through a series of major changes and entering university is one of the most significant. From primary school through to the end of secondary school, they have been in a ‘protected environment’. Going to university changes all this.
In this paper Alasdair White seeks to take the established behavioural models relating to comfort zones, group and individual development, and managing change, and use them to create a methodology for understanding and managing performance.
Following the murder of a young investigative journalist in France, Luc Hansen, an agent of the shadowy DER, the European Union’s security and intelligence directorate, uncovers a massive fraud and arms-smuggling operation orchestrated from within the heart of the European Commission in Brussels.