We are on the verge of experiencing highly disruptive events as the climate crisis expands. Leadership teams should be setting aside time and money to improve their climate literacy and then using...
How climate literacy should inform business decisions.
In May of 2014 various climate models projected a major El Niño event on the horizon, the full onset was only later in 2014, dissipating in May-June 2016. The impact of this strong El Niño in our...
A surge in adult education looms
Very soon we are going to experience one of the largest global adult education events in modern history, driven by the impacts of climate change. Right now, Climate Literacy is not a priority for...
The greatest business redesigning loading
The enormity of the urgent task ahead of us, namely the reversal of the pictured trajectory, is going to require the largest redesign of our way of doing business every experienced. Climate Visuals...
Understanding limits to adaptation
We are going to hear a lot more about adaptation in the months ahead, primarily because we are committed to certain levels of warming due to the current concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. We...
South Africa climate trajectory
So this is our trajectory in South Africa. Source Every single business leadership team, without exception, is going to need to ask themselves these two fundamental questions: 1) What role are we...
Important choices need to be made
Because we understand the physics of climate change we have some very important choices to make. The choices are clearly articulated by John Holdren: "We basically have three choices: mitigation,...
Climate data cannot be kept out the boardroom
A discussion on this data should be part of your next leadership meeting agenda. The latest IPCC emissions report card shows we are completely off track and what we have to do next involves "deep,...
Why some bosses want you back at the office
I have in the past shared some insights into why large numbers of surveyed employees want some days in the office (See Why employees want "hybrid working") This is largely due to the fact that...
Attempting unstructured digital workplace can be a painful experience
I often get asked: "What do you mean when you say 'you have to design a digital workplace' that enables effective anywhere-working?" Often the best way to answer this is to show an example of what a...
Onboarding: “But how will new people learn how we do things here if we aren’t together in an office?”
Great question. I have empathy for the question as it comes from a team that has, as its frame of reference, in-person working. In-person workplaces gain and share knowledge by asking and...
Near term leadership goals
In the very near future we are going to need an all society approach to reverse the pictured trajectory. Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide This is the most important challenge of our time and the...