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Wie is Marc Buelens?

Marc werkte voor Brouwerijen Artois, was algemeen directeur van Vlerick Business school en was prof aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij was bij studenten en Vlerick-deelnemers bekend als een passioneel lesgever van wie je altijd een frisse kijk kon verwachten. Samen met zijn echtgenote schreef hij de bestseller ‘Beter zorgen voor jezelf’, dat al meer dan dertig herdrukken kent.  In zijn wekelijkse column in Trends richt hij zijn kritische blik op de hedendaagse economie en management.

Marc combineert op unieke wijze academische diepgang en pedagogische helderheid. Zijn mantra is nu al dertig jaar: de focus zal zowel intellectueel als didactisch zijn. Ingewikkelde dingen simpel, maar niet simplistisch, maken is zijn handelskenmerk.

Boeken schrijven is zijn hobby. Over leiderschap, onderhandelen, beslissen, maar ook een thriller en een familieroman. Hij schreef zelfs een boek over hoe je een boek moet schrijven en menige service club heeft genoten van zijn voordracht: leiderschap, een thriller.

Als spreker bestrijdt hij op alle mogelijke manieren het Acapulco-syndroom, dat is het moment waarop de toehoorders de palmbomen van Acapulco zien wuiven, dwars door de spreker heen. Ongewone oefeningen, bizarre tegenvoorbeelden, verrassend eenvoudige modellen, afgewisseld met de allernieuwste academische inzichten, frisse on-liners, kortom je krijgt alles op je bord wat een zware materie licht verteerbaar maakt.

  • How would you describe human connections within your organisation?

    Current affairs
    Management

    Learning from mistakes in crisis management. Lessons from Apollo 13 and Ernest Shackleton. 

    The world’s approach to the Corona crisis is not exactly a success. Many people call it a failure. In his book ‘De Verblinde Samenleving’ (loosely translated: a blinded society), Marc calls for us to learn from our mistakes. Two of the most famous and best documented failures are Apollo 13 and Shackleton’s trans-Antarctic expedition. Apollo 13 can teach us how to manage a crisis. This involves the difference between the learning abilities of a surgeon who buries his mistakes and a pilot who is buried with his mistakes. Decisions during the Apollo 13 mission were made by professionals and ex-pilots, well trained in decision-making. During the Corona crisis, decisions have been made by panicking politicians who are trained in trying to prove that they are right, rather than actually being right. Shackleton can teach us how to generate support. How do you not lose a single person from your crew, even though you have been trapped in ice for 18 months and have no hope of rescue? Why did De Gerlache’s crew go mad and mutiny, and other explorers lose members, while Shackleton’s entire crew didn’t hesitate to be led by him again into danger?

  • Management and leadership 2020 and beyond. Looking past the hype.

    Management

    Enterprise. Radical innovation. Business models. All very good and well. But shouldn’t someone manage things? Will everything be incorporated into bland, autogenous organisations and self-managed processes? Shouldn’t we dream, dare and take action? Can we simply get rid of auditors, production managers and department heads ? Or have we learned that perhaps ‘back to basics’ might not be a bad principle after all. There’s no shortage of hypes, colour-coded models and unsubstantiated new-age kitsch, but do we actually know what we’re talking about?

  • Thinking like a virologist or epidemiologist. A look behind the scenes.

    Management

    “One thing that I have learned from this crisis is that Belgium does not have one, but millions of bio-statisticians” (Geert Molenberghs). No, you cannot become a virologist in an hour’s time. Not even within five years. But you can learn what virologists, epidemiologists, bio-statisticians and oncologists have in common. A certain way of thinking. They think like scientists. They use statistics - not to win pub arguments, but to enlighten those around them. Marc Buelens spent many years lecturing on the methodology of scientific research in medical-social sciences. He knows how his colleagues think, how they construct their models and how they make decisions about your future. What is a likelihood ratio? What is a Markov chain? What is the law of small numbers? What are people’s most common flaws in reasoning? What does ‘it takes a model to beat a model’ mean? After seventy meetings with the country’s leading medical experts, Marc Buelens knew who was reasoning clearly and who was just shooting in the dark. He unmasks the charlatans and praises the real professionals.

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