Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 30th/31st July 2022
What Makes a Great Executive Retreat by Elisa Farri
“The format offered the executives the opportunity to change their perspectives and adopt an investor view. It put them in the shoes of external people who were not emotionally attached to the company and its individual businesses …”
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better by Dr. Max Roser
“To see how much better the world can be, we can ask what the world would look like if this became the reality everywhere. What if children around the world would be as well off as children in the EU? Five million fewer children would die every year …’”
Stay in the Game by Drew Dickson
“At the darkest point, he almost called it. And there was nothing we could do about it. Even if we weren’t 5,000 miles away there was nothing we could do about it ...”
The War for Talent is Over (Talent Won) by Terence Mauri
“A culture of curiosity welcomes dissent and is defined as a way of leading that inspires workers to challenge the status quo and unlearn the always-done ways that have gone off like yoghurt in the fridge. It’s the gap between what you know and what you want to know ...”
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