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Human-Centered Leadership | Renee Moorefield

Peter Winick

And when you look at the amount of time and energy and the effort that your organization has to spend to yield a decent return from them, it could be frustrating, right? And then you also have the variable of, well, people are people. And they need a lot of support and nurturing. So those people got let go.

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The money collected will go to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets , allowing Microsoft to declare itself carbon neutral. Accountability throughout the organization.

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Walmart Broadens ROI for Green Power

Harvard Business Review

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things. EPA's latest list of the top 50 renewable energy buyers.

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More CEOs Should Tell Anti-Environment Shareholders to Buzz Off

Harvard Business Review

At the company’s latest shareholder meeting, a think tank, NCPPR, pushed Apple to stop pursuing environmental initiatives like investing in renewable energy. Second, generating power, and possibly building ‘microgrids’ to create energy independence for your facilities, offers some serious resilience benefits.

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. It now has around 10,000 operating projects. It is easier to price a product, for which most of the fixed and variable costs are known, than a project, which is influenced by many external factors.