Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (February 19, 2021)

How Leaders Should Deal With Burn Out; Why a Failure to Vaccinate the World Will Put Us All At Risk; Pandemics and the Future of Globalization; Mark Carney’s excellent Reith 2020 Lectures

1. Read: Beyond Burned Out: Chronic stress was rampant even before the pandemic. Leaders can’t ignore it any longer [via Harvard Business Review]

2. Read: Why a failure to vaccinate the world will put us all at risk [via MIT Technology Review]

3. Read: Bill Gates has a plan to save the world. Will the world listen? [via WIRED]

4. Listen: Mark Carney’s excellent Reith 2020 Lectures chart how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies. He argues that this has contributed to a trio of crises: of credit, Covid and climate. And the former Bank of England Governor will outline how we can turn this around.

5. Listen: Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube talks to Steve Levitt

6. Watch: How Working Remotely Will Change More Than Work [via Bloomberg]

7. Watch: Pandemics and the Future of Globalization [Stephen Redding is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University ]