Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (June 25, 2021)
The "hub and spoke" future of the office; How equality slipped away; Will China become the center of the world economy?; The structure of the Chinese Communist Party
Read: The "hub and spoke" future of the office [via Axios]
Read: How equality slipped away. For 97 percent of human history, all people had about the same power and access to goods. How did inequality ratchet up? [via Aeon]
Listen: How to Help People Thrive. Jim Harter is Chief Scientist for Gallup’s workplace management and wellbeing practices. [via Coaching for Leaders]
Listen: Prof. Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and JPAL on Gender. The discussion focuses on gender discrimination in developing countries, where she has been able to show us that this problem starts really early on, even prenatally. And that the way we think about progress when it comes to economic growth might make things even worse. But not everything is bad news, because her research also shows that there are ways to influence some of these trends, which we also discuss. [via Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee]
Infographic: The structure of the Chinese Communist Party [via Graphic News]
Watch: Will China become the center of the world economy? | FT
Watch: Eric Schmidt: A Q&A on digital innovation, privacy, and cybersecurity