Introduction

Are you a student? Then stay on board and read on: this chapter is highly relevant for you too. Why? Do you have to be a supervisor, professor, institute director, or dean, before you can start inspiring and changing other people? No, wake up! Inspiration can go in all directions, top down and bottom up. You can inspire a fellow Bachelor, Master's, or PhD student, or your team mates. You can bring change to them, to your supervising professor, perhaps even to your university.

This chapter is also relevant to you if you are not a student but an employee. Developing the other people around you, that's what this chapter is about. What's good for them is good for you.

Of course, changing someone else without his or her commitment is a hopeless, impossible mission. The “other” person should first become aware of the possibility or need to change, then want to change, be able to change, and act to change. You can support him or her by creating the right conditions, the breeding ground, and the treatment which will help them develop their own talent.