A 6 point check for “toxic seriosity”
It’s easy to get passionate about sustainability – but is your message EFFECTIVE? How do you know whether you’re creating action – or whether you’re teaching helplessness? Here’s a quick check on what you’re messaging and how you’re pushing it.
- When I talk about environmental issues, I talk about the catastrophic potential for the ecosystem and the human race:
- all the time
- regularly
- occasionally
- never
- When I talk about environmental issues, I talk about the profitable, rewarding business models, technological advances and opportunities being implemented around the world:
- all the time
- regularly
- occasionally
- never
- When I talk about environmental issues, I talk about the ongoing and complete lack of action on the part of those people who I believe are responsible for fixing the future:
- all the time
- regularly
- occasionally
- never
- When I talk about sustainability in business, I talk about reporting, obligation and incremental efficiency:
- all the time
- regularly
- occasionally
- never
- When I talk about sustainability in business, I talk about new strategic supply chain models like Blue Economy, Circular Economy, Industrial Ecology and others:
- all the time
- regularly
- occasionally
- never
- When I talk about sustainability solutions, I talk about concrete case studies and include local examples of success:
- all the time
- regularly
- occasionally
- never – I don’t talk about solutions
So how do you think you went? Are you teaching helplessness by continuously messaging a permanent, pervasive, personal catastrophe? Are you propagating the myth that “nothing’s happening”? How do you rate yourself on knowledge of the emerging paradigm shifts of regenerative thinking?
Where are your knowledge gaps?
- Do you need to know more about the business-shaking new economics of the regenerative economy?
- Do you need smarter tools for turning new ideas into adopted practices?
- Do you need to up your levels of personal effectiveness?
