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"Ambitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they're not perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent. This book teaches the non-threatening leadership strategies women need to succeed without harming the fragile male ego"--

Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A New York Times Bestseller Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries,education and health care,that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for our economic prospects,not to mention those of our children,as well as for society as a whole.

In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world. Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye--the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group--one of the fastest growing media companies in the world--celebrated as one of the world's most influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered is this really what success feels like? As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success--money and power--has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we're losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward. In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we're going to topple over. We need a third leg--a third metric for defining success--to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving. As Arianna points out, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success. They don't commemorate our long hours in the office, our promotions, or our sterling PowerPoint presentations as we relentlessly raced to climb up the career ladder. They are not about our resumes--they are about cherished memories, shared adventures, small kindnesses and acts of generosity, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters--of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her "aha moment." Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives.

Formålet med udgivelsen af en bog, der udfordrer og debatterer Pelle Dragsteds Nordisk Socialisme, er at opsamle og bidrage til venstrefløjens diskussioner af hans forståelse af samfundsforholdene og ideer til en farbar vej til socialisme.Pelle Dragsteds værk lægger op til diskussioner om begreberne socialisme og kapitalisme og af samfundets og statsmagtens karakter, om fordele og ulemper ved forskellige ejendomsformer, om modsætningen mellem markedskræfter og en demokratisk plan-økonomisk styring.En socialistisk politik og strategi stivner næppe nogensinde til en fastlåst opskrift. Og det er lige så sikkert, at der altid vil eksistere forskellige tolkninger af situationen og mere eller mindre modstridende politiske og strategiske strømninger på venstrefløjen. Den har det bedst, når de forskellige strømninger er i dialog med hinanden.Er Nordisk Socialisme farbar vej kan være til nytte f.eks. i studiekredse om Nordisk Socialisme og i politiske diskussioner af, hvad venstrefløjen vil på kort og længere sigt.

Livet som fuldtidsforfatter er en uopnåelig drøm for de fleste - og solsiden er også noget særligt, men der følger meget andet med, skyggesider, som alt for mange af os holder for os selv, ja, måske ligefrem tror kun sker for os selv. Depressioner, misbrug og i værste fald selvmord har altid været følgesvende for kreative mennesker, men er det det følsomme, kreative sind, der spøger, eller rummer forfatterlivet sider, som bare er svære at håndtere menneskeligt?I Forfattersind interviewer forfatter Steen Langstrup ti meget forskellige forfatterkollegaer om deres erfaringer med jobbets svære bagsider og deler imellem disse interviews egne tanker om jobbets snubletråde. Forfattersind indeholder interviews med Katrine Marie Guldager, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Peter Øvig, Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen, Lars Kjædegaard, Sara Skaarup, Eva Maria Fredensborg, Agnete Friis, Anette Ellegaard og Helle Hedegaard Hein. Det er håbet med denne bog at kaste lidt lys på skyggesiderne, så vi måske kan undgå de værste af dem eller i det mindste opdage, at vi er alt andet end alene med dem. Forfattersind handler om forfattere, men mange andre kunstnere, freelancere og selvstændige vil sikkert kunne genkende problemstillingerne.

Prekarisering er en marginaliseringsproces, ikke en klasse. Den rammer bredt, både i og uden for arbejdsmarkedet, såvel højt- som lavtuddannede, er en af samfundets største udfordringer og risikerer at underminere velfærdssamfundet.Tolv forfattere præsenterer otte konkrete cases. De belyser prekariseringens konsekvenser og vilkår. Eksemplerne viser som førstehåndsstudier, hvordan prekarisering helt konkret opleves af mennesker, hvis liv forværres af arbejdsmarkedets forandringer og stigende marginalisering. Dagpengemodtagere, unge arbejdsløse, reformramte udsatte, grundforskere, akademikere, sømænd og folkeskolelærere mærker alle en stigende usikkerhed. Deres sociale sikring mangler på et arbejdsmarked, hvor arbejdsløshed i stigende grad er den enkeltes ansvar, og hvor arbejde 'vareliggøres' og internationaliseres.Bogen henvender sig til studerende på videregående uddannelser i socialvidenskaber og socialt arbejde, til personer knyttet til politisk arbejde, fagforeninger eller NGO'er, der beskæftiger sig med arbejdsmarkedsforhold, social inklusion, eksklusion og 'den danske model', og til forskere og andre, der professionelt er optaget af arbejdsmarkedsforhold i Skandinavien.

This book is about two polemical issues in labour studies, namely, the notions and determinants of labour productivity and flexibility. This book attempts to develop the notion of labour input flexibility or the capacity of workers to adapt to changes in the environment and its relation with labour productivity.

Many employed men and women now hold self-employed, part-time or temporary jobs. The lack of fringe benefits, job security and employment rights for these flexible jobs are described as well as the effects on the mental health of individuals.

The global economy has an insatiable need for creative workers. Yet creative workers themselves are subject to new forms of control and expropriation and many understand the nature of the system they work under. What sort consciousness are they developing? Will they rebel?

Det danske arbejdsmarked er blandt de mest kollektivt organiserede arbejdsmarkeder i verden. Kollektive overenskomster spiller en meget stor rolle på arbejdsmarkedet, ligesom fagforeninger og arbejdsgiverorganisationer spiller en helt central rolle for hvilke initiativer der tages på arbejdsmarkedet.Bogen giver en samlet fremstilling af udviklingstræk i arbejdsmarkedsrelationerne på det danske arbejdsmarked. Der sættes fokus på fagforeninger, på arbejdsgiverorganisationer og diskuteres årsager til medlemskab eller mangel på samme. Og der sættes fokus på aktuelle udviklingstræk i det danske overenskomst- og aftalesystem både på det private og det offentlige arbejdsmarked.Bogen indeholder desuden internationale og komparative kapitler, der perspektiverer udviklingen i Danmark i lyset af EU, globaliseringen og udviklingstendenser i andre europæiske lande. Herunder diskuteres forholdet mellem ledelse og medarbejdere på virksomheder i Danmark, sammenlignet med andre lande.I bogen gennemgås og diskuteres en række forskellige teorier om arbejdsmarkedsrelationerne gående fra teorier om de industrielle relationer relateret til teorier om fx kollektiv handlen, Human Resource Management, kritisk teori, traditionel systemteori og teorieromstrategiske valg.Carsten Strøby Jensen er mag.art. et dr.scient.soc., lektor i Sociologi og arbejdsmarkedsforsker ved Københavns Universitet, Sociologisk Institut.

Industrial Relations in Denmark provides a comprehensive presentation of trends in Danish industrial relations with focus on trade unions, employer's federations and the interrelationships between employees and employers, as well as current trends in collective bargaining in both the private and public sector. The book includes a comprehensive explanation and discussion of different theoretical positions within the industrial relations field, including theories of collective action, Human Resource Management, critical theory, traditional systems theory and theories of strategic choice. Certain chapters also contextualise trends in relation to themes such as globalisation and europeanisation. In addition, comparative perspectives present developments in Danmark in relation to other countries. Carsten Strøby Jensen, PhD., is Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. Table of Contents: Preface Chapter 1. Industrial Relations in Denmark Chapter 2. Theories of Industrial Relations Chapter 3. Trade Unions and Industrial Relations - New Roles for the Trade Unions Chapter 4. Employers' Federations and Industrial Relations - Towards more Proactive Employers Chapter 5. The Reluctant State in the Danish IR system Chapter 6. The System of Collective Bargaining - Towards Organised Decentralisation Chapter 7. Towards New Management-Employee Relations - Between HRM and Collective Representation Chapter 8. The Europeanisation of Industrial Relations - A Threat to the Danish IR system? Chapter 9. Globalisation and the Danish IR Model Chapter 10. Conclusion References Abbreviations Tables & Figures Index

Tidsnød, fortravlethed og følelsen af, at tiden ikke slår til, er en moderne epidemi. Ikke kun i arbejdslivet, men også i vores hverdagsliv. Vi taler om at vinde tid, låne tid, skaffe tid, ja endog at stjæle tid. Mange længes efter et tidsmiljø, hvor der er plads til nærvær, koncentration og fordybelse, men samtidig arbejder stadig flere i noget, der nærmer sig grænseløst arbejde, hvor de i princippet er tilgængelige for arbejde i det meste af deres vågne tid, og arbejdsrytmen og indsatsen er situationsbestemt. Der er tale om ny arbejdsmoral, som betyder, at vi forholder os til arbejdetpå nye måder. Arbejdet flyder sammen med livet i sin helhed. Bogen undersøger tid og acceleration i det moderne samfund og beskriver, hvordan arbejdslivet påvirkes heraf. Den udforsker, hvordan det grænseløse arbejde gør os fattige på tid. Og så giver bogen bud på, hvordan vi skaber arbejdslivskvalitet gennem formning af arbejdspladsens tidsmiljø. Bogen baserer sig på et forskningsprojekt, som i samarbejde med seks virksomheder har indsamlet erfaringer med og teoretisk viden om ‘Tiden i det grænseløse arbejde’. Derudover er der gennemført eksperimenter med muligheder for at skabe sunde rytmer i arbejdslivet.