Aren't the obstacles Hamel alludes to in the beginning of this post what is wrong with almost all the organisations you've ever worked for?
- Graham Lauren
Aren't the obstacles Hamel alludes to in the beginning of this post what is wrong with almost all the organisations you've ever worked for?
- Graham Lauren
A most thoughtful piece, one of whose standout quotes for me is: "The dissonance comes from recognizing all that and not wanting to participate in system that involves all that destruction, and yet still going to work every day in organizations that are, mostly unintentionally but surely with great impact, creating and intensifying those very problems. People really want the opportunity to work professionally in a way that is consistent with building a sustainable world instead of undermining it. So people really welcome the opportunity to talk about what they personally can do—not just recycling and cutting their carbon footprint, which is surely important and needs to be done, but in their careers and at their corporations, where they spend the vast majority of their waking hours."
- Graham Lauren
A most thoughtful piece, one of whose standout quotes for me is: "The dissonance comes from recognizing all that and not wanting to participate in system that involves all that destruction, and yet still going to work every day in organizations that are, mostly unintentionally but surely with great impact, creating and intensifying those very problems. People really want the opportunity to work professionally in a way that is consistent with building a sustainable world instead of undermining it.<br>So people really welcome the opportunity to talk about what they personally can do—not just recycling and cutting their carbon footprint, which is surely important and needs to be done, but in their careers and at their corporations, where they spend the vast majority of their waking hours."
- Graham Lauren
The Sustainability Initiative » Sustainability as Fabric — and Why Smart Managers Will Capitalize First « MIT Sloan Management Review - http://sloanreview.mit.edu/beyond-...
The key bit for me: <br>I think big pressure also is going to come from within the business itself—not from a missionary CEO, but from some of the functional managers. My theory is that it’s some group on the periphery, usually middle level, that figures out a solution to some real problem. They show that it works, and then they can start diffusing it. And then it gets embraced by the top. I seldom think that it’s a top-down thing.
- Graham Lauren
The Sustainability Initiative » Sustainability as Fabric — and Why Smart Managers Will Capitalize First « MIT Sloan Management Review - http://sloanreview.mit.edu/beyond-...
The key bit for me: I think big pressure also is going to come from within the business itself—not from a missionary CEO, but from some of the functional managers. My theory is that it’s some group on the periphery, usually middle level, that figures out a solution to some real problem. They show that it works, and then they can start diffusing it. And then it gets embraced by the top. I seldom think that it’s a top-down thing.
- Graham Lauren