Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom.
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it’s not easy to maintain that attitude.
The responses that environmentalists evoke – fear, anxiety, numbness, despair – are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital – the resource systems upon which we depend to live – instead of our human capital.
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.