The New York Times
Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism
6 min · · The current system has led to profound inequality. To fix it, we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit. · Shared by 276, including Gerd Leonhard, Mo Koyfman, Scott Galloway, Marc Benioff, Denise Lee Yohn, 💥 Katie Martell, C.C. Chapman, Sarah E. Brown, Vala Afshar, Erik Voorhees, Steve Case, davidabrock, Gideonro, Johan den Haan, Oli Gardner 🇺🇦, Bill George, Jeff Bussgang, Eric Ries, Mike Kunkle, John C. Havens (he/him)
medium.com
Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam
8 min · · The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement · Shared by 133, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dominik Grolimund, Michael Duergner, douglas rushkoff, tcherno
Inc.
Efficiency Is the Enemy of Innovation
3 min · · A new Harvard Business Review article questions our deeply held beliefs about how markets operate. · Shared by 87, including Thomas Wong, fernand0, Tom Connor, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Charles Baldwin, Bertrand Maltaverne, Nicolas Berg, Lucas Foster, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे
Harvard Business Review
Rethinking Efficiency
20+ min · · Beginning with Adam Smith, business thinkers have steadfastly regarded the elimination of waste as management’s holy grail. But what if the negative effects from the pursuit of efficiency eclipse the… · Shared by 84, including Jeff Sutherland, Katja Evertz, Jelan Ong, Thomas Wong, Tauno, Carlo Badini, Tom Connor, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Bertrand Maltaverne, Gabriele
OneZero
The Efficiency Delusion
10 min · · Optimizing how we live, work, and play is embedded deep in the psyche of coders and American culture. But how much efficiency is too much? · Shared by 82, including Rachel Botsman, Niklaus Gerber, Gerd Leonhard, Evan Selinger, Katja Evertz, Bertrand Maltaverne, Tillmann Allmer, Tom Connor, kp, Azeem Azhar
The Atlantic
The Modern Supply Chain Is Snapping
Summary · 4 min · · If you can’t find your favorite shampoo or toothpaste, blame the modern supply chain. The closing of major Chinese manufacturing sites for only a few weeks during the coronavirus outbreak laid bare how much the availability of products depends on just-in-time deliveries from the world’s manufacturing powerhouses in Asia. Writing for The Atlantic, Lizzie O’Leary explains pandemic-related weaknesses in the global supply chain and their consequences. · Shared by 76, including getAbstract, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Bertrand Maltaverne, Taylor Pearson, David Wallace-Wells
The Guardian
Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
5 min · · Deregulation means a company once run by engineers is now in the thrall of financiers and its stock remains high even as its planes fall from the sky · Shared by 72, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Tom Connor, Bjorn Larsen, adrianoesch, Thomas Power, Jochen Burkhard
Quartz
One of the world’s most influential economists wants to save capitalism from itself
11+ min · · Mariana Mazzucato is helping everyone from the European Union to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez design economic policy. · Shared by 72, including Tim O'Reilly, Bertrand Maltaverne, Alexandra Wong, Jochen Burkhard, Beth Heald
Harvard Business Review
The Death of Supply Chain Management
6 min · · If you work in the field, it’s time to update your résumé. · Shared by 66, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Marco Unternaehrer, Klaus Eck, Ron McIntyre, Antonio Vieira Santos, Michael Sumner, Bertrand Maltaverne, Christian P. Stobbe
Fast Company
How much are we sacrificing for automation?
7 min · · Lessons from an Amazon warehouse, and a world where increasingly anything (and anyone) that can be measured, is. · Shared by 59, including Tom Connor, Bjorn Larsen, Bertrand Maltaverne, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
TED Talks
A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
· What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits. · Shared by 52, including Tristan Harris, Further, Kate Raworth, Bertrand Maltaverne
The New York Times
We Went to the Moon. Why Can’t We Solve Climate Change?
6 min · · The original moon shoot inspired billions. Calling climate action a moon shot isn't an perefect parallel — but maybe we should try it anyway. · Shared by 47, including George Shiber, Michael Grupe, Bertrand Maltaverne, Guy Kawasaki, Claudia Sommer
Harvard Business Review
Your AI Efforts Won’t Succeed Unless They Benefit Employees
5 min · · Workers need to know AI is here to help — not steal their jobs. · Shared by 45, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Joseph Kvedar, MD, Andy Jankowski, Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, Gerrit Eicker, 瑞拿頭, Antonio Vieira Santos, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Wong, Ian M Calvert
Project Syndicate
The Economic Consequences of Automation
4 min · · Economic theory does not provide a clear answer regarding the overall impact of technological progress on jobs. And even if automation has traditionally been beneficial in the long run, policymakers… · Shared by 39, including Thomas Power, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bertrand Maltaverne
medium.com
Our humanity needs to develop at the same speed as our technology
7 min · · The way we view work life is influenced by the way we view the world. This view rests on the most fundamental assumptions we make about… · Shared by 31, including Thomas Power, Azeem Azhar, Dean of Big Data 🎓 #DOBD, Bertrand Maltaverne
Project Syndicate
The Revolution Need Not Be Automated | by Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo
4 min · · For centuries after the Industrial Revolution, automation did not hinder wage and employment growth, because it was accompanied by new technologies geared toward maintaining the role of human labor in… · Shared by 24, including Jonathan Kogan, Bertrand Maltaverne