Recommended Reading and My Reuters Pic of the Week
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Welcome back to my recommended reading list, with pieces this week?on?the big brands stoking cement kilns with plastic waste, a new course exploring what AI means for our world and why employees want autonomy--not just flexibility.?This week’s picture, by photojournalist Eloisa Lopez, shows a child cleaning melted candle wax from an apartment-style grave at Manila South Cemetery a day before the nationwide cemetery closure during All Saints' Day, in Manila, Philippines, on October 28, 2021.
?Read on for this week's picks...?
Consumer goods giants are funding projects to send plastic trash to cement plants, where it is burned as cheap energy. They’re touting it as a way to keep plastic out of dumps and use less fossil fuel. Critics say it undercuts recycling efforts and worsens air quality. One said it was “like moving the landfill from the ground to the sky.”
A new course at McMaster University is exploring the societal implications of AI.
For organizations looking to remain competitive in the hybrid future, enabling and empowering employee autonomy will be the single most important enabler of flexibility.
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Gen Burhan claims he is keeping the transition to democracy on track - and has promised a technocratic civilian government and elections in two years.
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Michael Friedenberg is the President of Reuters News. He was previously CEO of IDG Communications and President of CXO Media. Michael is a voracious reader with a particular interest in the news and publishing industries, digital transformation and all things Philly...?