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 If you want to be an effective leader or manager, you need emotional intelligence - or EQ - to set you apart from others. It's what separates people with similar hard skills and knowledge. 

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Emotional agility is what makes us adaptable leaders and managers, as well as happier people. The concept explains that we shouldn’t think of our emotions as either 'good' or 'bad', and that we need to understand our emotions and learn to regulate them. Watch the short video about emotional agility.

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You've heard of the gig economy but do you know what it is? Why are hundreds of millions of people working as drivers, couriers, and freelance experts hiring themselves out to companies like Uber, Amazon, Fiverr, and Freelancer?

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What is the 'job' of a McDonald's milkshake? That's what Professor Clayton Christensen asked when McDonald's asked him for advice. Prof Christensen, famous for his theory of Disruptive Innovation, was asked to help McDonald's understand why they weren't selling enough milkshakes. He  came up with the brilliant Jobs To Be Done theory and McDonald's realized that the market for milkshakes was actually seven times larger than they had thought. 

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In 1993, the world was shocked by the arrest of two 10-year-old boys for the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger. The two 10-year-olds, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted James, beat him to death with bricks and a metal bar, then left his body on a railway track, where it was cut in half by a train. Robert and Jon were jailed for murder but what made them kill James? Listen to the police interview with the two boys. 

Police, lawyers, family members who were involved in the murder trial of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables . The two 10-year-old boys were charged with murdering 2-year-old James Bulger. Was the court sentence justice?

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The low-cost airline model was started by Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1949 and developed by Southwest Airlines in the early 1970s. It has since expanded around the world. Budget airlines include Ryanair, EasyJet, Wizz Air, Spirit Airlines, Allegiant, AirAsia, IndiGo, JetSmart, GOL,and Wingo.  The businesses are based on cutting costs to a minimum. But does the low-cost airline model work?

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In 2022, thousands of Ryanair passengers were stuck in airports. Cabin crew in Belgium, Spain and Portugal went on strike over pay and working conditions. But would Ryanair obey the law and compensate its passengers?  

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A look at the hidden world of mainly women workers in London who come from Latin America, Spain, Africa and East Europe but face exploitation, long hours, and underpayment. 

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In the UK, a court decided delivery riders for giant firm Deliveroo cannot have the same rights as regular employees. It was a very important decision, which may surprise you. 

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Investments in sustainable businesses is at record levels - more than  $35tn in 2020. It's powering green industries but is it a lie? There are fears businesses are using ESG investments to 'greenwash' - improve their image by pretending to save the planet. 

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In 1965, Janet Reimer had twin boys, Bruce and Brian. However, a circumcision operation on baby Bruce went wrong and his genitals were destroyed. Janet and her husband decided Bruce should have a controversial treatment that would turn him into a girl and that they would call her Brenda. Later,  Brenda found out and decided to go back to being a man. This video looks at his story and his tragic end. 

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Young teenager Brenda Reimer discovered something terrible: She had been born a boy called Bruce. After a circumcision operation that went wrong, her parents decided Bruce would have controversial sex-change treatment to turn him into a girl. When he was older, he changed back into a man. Then he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to explain why he forgave his mother.

We touch plastic more than we touch the people we love. We eat with plastic, we wear plastic clothes, we sleep in plastic, and we touch our plastic phones every few seconds. We just can’t live without it. Or can we? Entrepreneur Leslie Maliepaard argues that plastic isn’t bad but that recycling is failing. She explains how we can live with less plastic and how we can use a circular approach to solve the plastic pollution problem.

 Plastic is everywhere nowadays and, as we try to cut back on our use, we ask, how did we get a world so full of plastic? 

Plastic from all over the world is polluting the Arctic but there’s one man with a plan. Scientists say almost everywhere they look in the Arctic Ocean, there is plastic pollution. However, in the northern fjords of Norway, one man has a mission to pick up as much plastic as he can.

‘What the citizens of the UK believe they are sending for recycling is actually dumped in our country.’ – Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysian Environment Minister. We take a look at how Malaysia said No to recycling any more of your waste plastic. 

In 2018, China banned the import of plastic waste from other countries. Before that, it had taken about 60 per cent of the plastic waste from G7 countries. That dropped to less than ten per cent in 2018. We look at the challenge for Europe, north America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.