Kirsten McHugh, The Good Project Researcher
While it’s important to stay informed, the deluge of election and pandemic coverage can at times become overwhelming. Take a momentary break to reset and check out what we have been reading this month.
The Harvard Business Review recently published a piece by Kristi Hedges in which she references The Good Project’s Value Sort in an article on the importance of finding a workplace that reflects your own values. Hedges argues that going into an interview with a firm understanding of your own values will allow you to ask the kinds of questions that get at the heart of what is truly important at the company you are considering.
When considering the scale of a global pandemic and talks of a looming threat to US democracy, cheating in your studies might seem like small potatoes. That being said, you during this politically polarized time, you might wonder where all the honest people have gone. In this vein, The Chronicle of Higher Education explores cheating in their recent article “Students Cheat. How Much Does It Matter?”.
New technology always promises to make our lives easier, but do the small gains actually deliver us to a better tomorrow? In a recent Harvard Gazette article, Ben Boothman examines the promise of AI in contrast to the potential ethical pitfalls to society embedded within the code.
Check out a review of Dr. Howard Gardner’s latest book, A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir From The Creator Of Multiple Intelligences Theory featured in The Washington Post. Gardner was also interviewed about his memoir by R. Bruce Rich at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.
The Black Lives Matter Movement has many of us asking ourselves how we can do more in our professional lives to end systemic racism. This month, The Atlantic’s Kristina Rizga interviews veteran history teacher Robert Roth and learns how Roth has spent his career fighting for racial justice through his teaching.
From all of us at The Good Project, have a Happy (and safe) Halloween!