The Edit: Finding Connections
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Finding happiness, connecting employees to a purpose and more in this week’s #TheEdit.
- How to be a better boss. Workplaces have changed dramatically over the past four years, let alone the past 40 – The Economist
- Can happiness be taught? A Harvard Business School professor thinks you should run your inner self like a company – New Yorker
- Businesses, wake up to ‘climate quitters’. A new generation of conscience-driven workers is on the rise and, when it comes to assessing employers’ ESG performance, they’re voting with their feet – Raconteur
- How to connect employees to your company’s purpose. Emerging practices from leading organisations show that the journey is not about top-down messaging – Harvard Business Review
- Good robots must not be made to learn from bad human habits. Generative AI should follow the signals from driverless cars that behave better on the roads than we do – Financial Times
- How to escape climate apathy. If you recognise there’s a climate emergency, yet find yourself looking away – Psyche
- What is radical uncertainty? According to economists John Kay and Mervyn King, there are two types of uncertainty: resolvable and radical – The Beautiful Truth
“To escape apathy, you need hope. Climate ‘doomerism’ is almost as dangerous as organised denial.”
Elizabeth Cripps