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“We can list more than 20 dimensions we’ve found in successful leaders: the ability to create a vision, thinking strategically, building influential internal and external networks, courage to make tough decisions, and so on. Successful leadership is multidimensional for sure. But most of the traits of successful leaders can be distilled down to two elements. They know how to: bring multiple teams together make great decisions And these two elements have a lot to do with whether organizations are agile.”
― Jim Clifton, It's the Manager: Gallup finds the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization's long-term success.

“Even accepting that EVs and solar panels are or will one day be more energy-efficient than coal- and gas-burning technologies, the bigger question is how fast we attempt to transition. For renewables to provide a majority of our power, we would have to increase wind and solar twenty-fold. But there are not enough rare earth metals on the planet to build such an energy system and then replace it every couple of decades. Replacing a majority of our coal and gas industries with electric ones would exhaust all of our power and resources at one time, massively increasing emissions and environmental degradation in the short run. It could also increase energy inequality, by diverting power and resources to the rebuilding of the energy sector itself. Transitioning slowly, on the other hand, as things wear out, might not create such stresses, but would take many decades to bring us to zero net emissions. Both approaches result in catastrophe. The”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

“In the late eighteenth-century, German educationalist Friedrich Froebel found that the best way to promote learning in children was through play. His studies found that people are naturally creative, and that their creativity was best brought out inside educational environments that included materials (which he called “gifts”) that encouraged learning through hands-on play. The idea was to teach young children through ways they valued and enjoyed rather than through ways they viewed as useless and boring.”
― John Couch, My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew

“The only real answer, the really simple one that neither philanthrocapitalists nor green technologists want to hear, is that we have to reduce our energy consumption altogether.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires