Ideas wanted for book on happiness at work

[Audrey Coward]

Dear Alexander,
        Last Friday I attended a talk By Matthew Fox on the re-invention
of work. He distinguishes between job and work this way; a job is what
we often do to get money to pay the bills; work in its "best" form
brings joy to self and others, learning and gives us an opportunity to
tap into our creativity. He didn't attempt to define joy. He defines
work as our life's work such as writing a book, raising children, making
meals, investing in our relationships with others.
        I recently met a 47 year old woman who told me she has never
been happy. I spoke to another young woman who said society is going to
have to change its work demands because we are all burning out.
        Are you making a distinction between employed by others or self
employed?
        I have done some work in the past on keys to work satisfaction;
but I think your work happiness may have a different meaning.

        In the book I would like to know how you define work happiness.
It was great to meet you and my time in your wonderful city flew at just
about the same rate as my money.

Audrey

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Alexander Kjerulf
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 5:35 AM
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Subject: Ideas wanted for book on happiness at work

Hi

I need your help: I'm currently writing a book about happiness at work.
The book is directed at both managers and employees, and should give the
reader a better understanding of what makes people happy at work, as
well as a lot of practical tools to use.

If you were reading such a book, what would you like to see in it? Drop
me a comment if you have any ideas - good or bad :o)

The reason I ask this question on this list, is that I believe there is
a huge overlap between opening space and being happy at work, and the
book will explore that, as well as many other themes.

Oh, and here's a bonus challenge: Can you give me a better phrase than
"happiness at work"? In danish we have the word arbejdsglaede meaning
workhappiness. I find it interesting that this word exists in danish
(and swedish) and not in, say, english, french or german.

The book is part of my "happiness at work" project, a non-profit, open
source, open space organization that promotes happiness at work (more
info here: http://www.kjerulf.com/projectshappinessatwork.htm).

Cheers

Alexander

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Alexander Kjerulf
www.kjerulf.com
alexander at kjerulf.com
Tagensvej 126, lejl. 102
2200 København N.
+45 2688 2373

Trænger du til noget arbejdsglæde? Kender du nogen som gør?
www.projektarbejdsglaede.dk

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