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Interesting way to flip many of the problems around alternative energy and sustainability around with a 180 degree approach. Penalizing does seem to make people want to dig in their heels and defend the old way of doing things. Focusing on new approaches that are better, faster and cheaper should make it that much more obvious that the new way is the direction to move in.

"Forcing countries to agree to emissions caps will never work, argue Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Instead, they say, the focus should be on technology innovations."

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Free-flowing talk from John Seddon - talking about systems thinking and why many approaches to "managing change" is focused on processes instead of outcomes. Pokes a ton of holes in many areas of "normal business practices."

"John Seddon explains why targets make organisations worse and controlling costs makes costs higher.
This elegant dissection of the organisational madness that pervades our culture was given at the 2009 conference of the Human Givens Institute. Target Obsession Disorder laid bare. "

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Good to see that our work is getting wider play - above and beyond the keynote we had done live at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Stay tuned for more on this research.

"It should not surprise us that the top issue is resistance to change. Readers of this blog know that business projects of every kind suffer from issues related to poor communication, conflicting agendas across information silos, and related organizational causes of failure.

A recent study from Information Architected and The 2.0 Adoption Council also describes resistance to change as the significant barrier. This compelling slide clearly summarizes that message..."

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