The risk of looking for positive signs of change is that you might see them where they don’t exist. That's why I was tickled pink at this episode a few weeks ago.
I'd been invited to have dinner with a local chapter of NetImpact. I almost always accept these invitations when my schedule permits because I pick up great ideas, I learn more about what I think and what I know by being challenged by bright, passionate people, and I make loads of new friends.
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One of the lessons I'm learning about driving sustainability strategy is that everything takes longer than I hoped, or expected, or wanted - establishing baselines and targets, developing and (especially) getting buy-in to new principles and policies, harmonizing practices across multiple divisions. But one of the things I've promised myself (and my readers) is that I'd take the time to recognize and acknowledge signs that sustainability is, in fact, infiltrating into the way we work at EMC.
Last month, I visited our Center of Excellence in Cork, Ireland, and saw an amazing example of just what we trying to do.
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