The Edit: How We Must Grow
The Edit

The Edit: How We Must Grow

Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.

2 minute read

31st Mar 2023

Advancing women of colour to the C-suite, how we learn from failure and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

  • Do five days in the office add up? Hybrid working helps keep staff and lowers office costs, but some pushback will continue – Financial Times
  • Is it enough to empower corporate women? “Chief is a club for white women,” says Sibil Patri, commenting on the lack of support to foster women of colour’s corporate growth – The New York Times
  • Building a better relationship with your notifications. Whether or not design can create a better, calmer relationship with our devices and their notifications – Creative Review
  • What to learn from failure. Past experience can offer highly valuable insight into future outcomes, but only when leveraged effectively – Harvard Business Review
  • The decline of the city grid. The oldest form of city planning is falling out of fashion – The Economist
  • The data delusion. We’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines – The New Yorker
  • A collection of cherry blossoms. Spring started a little more than a week ago, and the Northern Hemisphere has begun to warm; flowers and trees are blooming – The Atlantic
  • How do we speed up the transition to renewable energy? Andrés Gluski, President and CEO of AES Corporation, discusses the perspectives we need for a faster renewables transition and what might be hindering this mission – The Beautiful Truth 

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Abigail Adams