Corporate Ecocide
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Thursday, 15 September 2011 |
Polly Higgins, international human rights lawyer, is encouraging the UN to acknowledge the fifth crime against peace - ecocide. Ecocide? Yes, killing the environment/ecology, and in most cases leading to war. Once this is recognised as an international crime, it will be possible to indict the individuals concerned and make them uncomfortable. My recent tirade against the destruction of Australia's water through the mixing of pollutants from coal seam gas would fit very neatly as ecocide.
To get away from Ecocide, try Mega Planning.Labels: Mega Planning, Sustainability, Vision |
posted by Dr Ron @ 1:02 PM
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There's money in destruction ...
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Friday, 9 September 2011 |
There's money in destruction. Don't miss out!
If you are prepared to pollute Australia's groundwater by pumping chemicals into it, you can force out the coal seam gas and flog it. You can make a lot of money! Mind you, there will be a lot of children with leukemia, maybe your own, we will no longer be able to drink the water that has sustained the nation and it's Aboriginal owners for all time, but does it matter if we can make money? After all, we can drink bottled water, or filtered water, or grog, can't we? We can even sell that! There's money in that too. There's nothing that can't be sold, is there?
Now if you're one of those people that doesn't want our water supply polluted and our children dying of leukemia, then you may have to stand up and say loudly, "No!" because otherwise, this is happening, day by day.
So if you'd like to have clean water and healthy children, why not take a look at this short video
http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/csg-ad/dont-risk-csg
of what happens on farms when holes are drilled and this destructive process (which we give the jovial name of 'fracking') begins. Note that the farmers can't stop this, they have no power. The politicians won't give them the power, the petroleum industry has the right to walk onto to their land, breaking into the farm if necessary, without even warning, and start up this process of heavy pollution. Yes, please take a look, and add your voice to the resistance against this wilful and very profitable destruction of Australia's water. We better act fast, or our land will be devastated while we look on.
The Great Artesian Basin is being attacked. YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE SCALE OF IT UNTIL YOU SEE THIS VIDEO.
A representative of the Petroleum Gas industry, on Radio National, palming off the destruction, actually said, "Oh in Sydney, we may not have to use fracking". No? They'll pollute our suburbs by mixing coal seam gas with groundwater but maybe not using fracking! Maybe. So it'll be OK.
Read this from GetUp:
Every week Tony wakes at dawn to make his regular rounds. There are already 66 wells in the Piliga State forest near his farm, and over 1,000 more are planned. It's supposed to be a conservation reserve.
He follows the pipes, looking for leaks, and often finds them. He takes photos of the unsealed ponds where mining companies store waste water from extraction, and of the trees dying off nearby. He's right to be concerned. Analysis of waste in other areas found hundreds of industrial chemicals, and carcinogens linked to leukaemia at levels 6 to 15 times safe drinking water standards1.
Undeterred, coal seam gas companies don't want anything to slow, nor regulate, their rapid expansion. So this week they launched a new PR campaign to convince the community and the Government there is nothing to worry about.
If the industry hasn't moved into your area yet, watch this video featuring Tony and other locals, to see why coal seam gas is the next big threat to our land and water:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/csg-ad/dont-risk-csg
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| posted by Dr Ron @ 9:40 PM
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A widely held view
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Sunday, 31 July 2011 |
| There seems to be a widely held view that Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR) is about sacrificing earnings in order to be 'a good corporate citizen'.
There is another view that ought to be heard more: it's about how organisations can thrive in a rapidly changing world. How far are we prepared to look into the future to guarantee our profits long-term? It’s a fact of life that new restrictions are continuously placed on organisations, whether by obligations to the workforce or to society or the environment. We have the choice of seeing these as obstacles or as opportunities. As obstacles, we try to get around them or postpone them - until eventually we get hit by some new law - like a price on carbon (oh dear, we thought we could keep dumping the carbon down the sky drain!)
As opportunities, we can involve our whole workforce, our clients, our suppliers, all of our stakeholders in how to have less impact on the ecology - and achieve a new round of profitability.
That's Mega Planning. Start from the future you want (it will surely include no-pollution, won't it?) and plan to operate that way in the shortest time possible. Once the decision is made, the effort to fight off the needs of the future is eliminated and you are free to put your creative energy into new ways, more profitable ways, to change.
Any feedback on this? [more]
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| posted by Dr Ron @ 10:08 PM
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More for Less
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Thursday, 12 May 2011 |
Besides our 360 Facilitated® Leader/Manager Survey™ being the unique 360 survey on the Web, it actually combines three profiles in one. In addition to the holistic, research-based Leader/Manager framework covering the full range of your behaviours, there are the [optional] Emotional Intelligence Behaviours pages with the 'traffic light' warning of where problems may lie. Managers really love that quick check on the EI implications of how they work with others.
And then there is the Leader/Manager Types™ profile, the quick self-scoring instrument that checks for Eight Types of Manager and gives you immediate feedback on how you may be relating to others - and what you might do about it.
So, three profiles in one, the value is high and the price is low.
Add in the 130-page Leader/Manager Guide (dynamic, online) with Professional Development Plan, and then telephone and email support, also the Accreditation packages to ensure that consultants and facilitators do the best job they can, and you do really have More for Less.
Remember also, that any Capability or Competency set can be mapped onto the Leader/Manager Model, creating a double profile at minimal cost, and you have something very powerful and quite special. Talk to us about it, click here.Labels: 360 feedback, Competition, Leadership |
| posted by Dr Ron @ 2:24 PM
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Do you have a customer?
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Saturday, 26 March 2011 |
Doesn't every manager have a customer or two, whether inside or outside of the organisation? The 360 Leader/Manager Surveys™ are loved for the way they encourage managers and their teams to get together and deal with the issues confronting them. But these questionnaires don't necessarily cover the interests of clients, especially external. Usually, the manager doesn't meet regularly with them. Many of the things managers do just don't apply. How then do we get their view as part of the 360 degree feedback?
To get the customer's view, we add on to the L/M questionnaire some more questions - perhaps 10, perhaps more - that capture the essence of what the customer wants. Now we have a full picture of manager and team working together - and supporting their mutual customers!
For many managers, this is a very useful extension of the Leader/Manager Model™
Contact us if you would like more details.
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| posted by Dr Ron @ 8:02 PM
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Can't we stop the bloodshed in Egypt?
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Friday, 4 February 2011 |
With the arrest of journalists and Amnesty International personnel, Egypt appears poised for another Tiananmen massacre while the rest of us stand by. Vodafone has actually supported the regime by shutting down the Internet for 5 days and then sending a message for the people to keep everything 'as is'. Voices in Egypt can't be heard, we can.
[more]Labels: Trust, Vision |
| posted by Dr Ron @ 4:25 PM
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Cause of Queensland Floods
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Saturday, 15 January 2011 |
Not so Happy this New Year so far. The news, of course, concentrates on the devastation and and great rescue effort - and all power to them for keeping us informed. But how did we let this happen? Please let's start to think ahead.
As usual, there are the sceptics desperately trying to deny that we are seeing Global Warming in action. A really nice short article that clarifies this for anyone (other than a 'sceptic') from University of California at San Diego shows how climate warming puts more water into the system. Well worth reading at:
Proof of Global Warming
A little more support and detail from University of New South Wales is at: Climate change link
The other issues behind this are around our risk-taking behaviour (motivated by financial gain) and our unwillingness to realise that '100-year' weather events must now be expected more frequently. That's Global Warming again.
Risk-taking: we build housing on flood plains where it's only a matter of how soon, how much. And we deforest the surrounding hills so that the majority of rainfall now becomes run-off - which becomes flooding.
The solution: it's very long-term, hence not popular with politicians of the populist variety. We need education. Help people to understand, then they will elect politicians who dare to tackle the problem.
It's complex. We have created an economic system that keeps expanding to infinity - well not quite. You could say the bubble grows till it pops, over and over. And we are dependent on its growth for livelihood and well-being. It's Catch 22, no one offers a solution...
Except Mega Planning. Everything becomes possible once you factor in the future. Start everything you do from a Vision of the future. It's not hard to plan this way. It doesn't negate the planning you've been doing, but it give you a framework to evaluate it and find a better way forward. And it doesn't cost much - a lot of the material is open-source.
People are gradually wiseing up and asking for this forward-looking approach. Get in ahead with Mega Planning and lead the way. Especially in the re-building phase in Queensland. Let's not build the whole catastrophe over again and wait for it to happen! Because it won't be 100 years. Much less.
Wishing you the very best of all possible futures
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| posted by Dr Ron @ 11:30 AM
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Getting better
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Friday, 19 November 2010 |
Websites are certainly works in progress - unless you're looking at those ones (often well-intended) that remain like historic relics, but often still offering us a relevant message. Such as:
www.aptnsw.org.au/
a trip down memory lane, Action for Public Transport still providing good information, having been quite successfull and still impacting government in the attempt to get decent public transport for Sydney (what we might call a Mega project). They sorely need someone who could help them present APT better.
Meantime, we have improved our own patch with the aim of putting clearly before the world who we are. Check us out now at:
www.360facilitated.comLabels: 360 Facilitated, Mega Planning |
| posted by Dr Ron @ 5:33 PM
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Creativity
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010 |
Back from hols I was just stirred to join a discussion on LinkedIn about:
One thing you could say to someone to inspire them to be more creativeWell, how about this:
Creativity is about the future, right? Why not create for the future you really want? How about the World for Tomorrow's Child? Is anyone going to oppose that? Thinking this way will not only make you creative (and usefully so) but also successful in the long-term.
And it has a name: Mega Planning. It's about creating the future we all want - and being successful in doing so - doing good and doing well.
More detail? check out:
http://www.360facilitated.com/sustainability-and-mega-planning/Labels: Culture, Mega Planning |
| posted by Dr Ron @ 6:47 AM
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