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Oliver Burkeman's guides to leading a better life in an age of confusion Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman is well-known for his long-running Guardian column, 'How to Change Your Life', and has written three bestselling books on happiness, productivity and time management. In this radio...

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking 16-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton heads into the office, the factory, the fishing fleet, and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet?

The national best seller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today - and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy.

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back — back to strong local economies, back to resilient, tight-knit communities, back to the land and work that is real. As we chart our course through these uncertain times, we are hungry for inspiration.

Gefühle und Emotionen sind in vielen Unternehmen immer noch ein Tabu. Der Arbeitsalltag zeigt jedoch, dass diese sich nicht ausklammern lassen: Überall wo Menschen gefordert sind, zusammenzuarbeiten, kommen früher oder später Gefühle ins Spiel, ob es uns gefällt oder nicht. Doch das muss kein Problem sein. Im Gegenteil, sagt Vivian Dittmar: Gefühle sind wichtige Beziehungskompetenzen, die wir auch in Arbeitssituationen dringend benötigen. Doch wie schaffen wir es, dass diese in Teams und Besprechungen, in Führungskräften und Mitarbeitern auch als solche zum Tragen kommen? Emotionale Kompetenz ist mehr als nur Teil eines modernen Skillprofils.