Framing anxiety, CEOs’ mental health and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

• How to make small talk. Overcoming the awkwardness that keeps us from starting a conversation – The Atlantic Podcast
• Why CEOs’ mental health is business-critical. An apparent decline in CEOs’ mental health in recent years is endangering company culture – Raconteur
• Why we should not be so anxious about anxiety. Some psychologists think we talk about the emotion in the wrong way – Financial Times
• Got resilience? External shocks and uncertainty are the new normal for businesses. To build lasting resilience, organisations can start by reviewing how healthy they are – McKinsey
• It’s hard to reach people’s hearts and minds if the CEO’s head is in the clouds. Leading change is both a top-down process and a bottom-up process – Harvard Business Review
• Time is an object. Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories – Aeon
• What Susan Sontag wanted for women. A new collection reveals a world view haunted by death, and the prospect of liberation – New Yorker
• Inspiring Infinity. Sophie Howe, Christa Gyori and Charles Wookey talk to The Beautiful Truth’s Co-founder, Adam Penny, about why businesses must look beyond their own lifetimes – The Beautiful Truth