Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you. ”

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes. ”

Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. ”

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change. ”

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. ”

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well. ”

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. ”

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ”

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization. ”

I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people. ”