Some Questions

Posted by on May 23, 2007

It is hard to innovate within any system. But the resources lie within the system. How do you get the resources to innovate that can then affect the system?

How do you start small but link it up with other things so that it adds up to something important. How do you create the right kind of scale for people to connect? What brings the smaller pieces together that allows them to have impact?

Is the U.S. Green Building Council that created the LEED system a model for the "connection" being called for?

If you don't have leadership challenging the bottom up, you don't get the momentum you need. But the more leadership you have, the more it can quash bottom up efforts. How do you achieve the right level of each?