by Edwin Merino | Apr 1, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability, System Thinking
Eileen Fisher’s culture was like none I’d ever witnessed in my quarter-century of working with corporations. The leaders, including VP of Manufacturing, VP of Sales, CFO, and more – the classic white male categories — were ALL women. And not just women. Not the...
by Edwin Merino | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability, System Thinking
The idea that problems are created and thus solved not in isolation, but by a system of players, who collectively have the wisdom to define, understand, and transform that system is what I refer to as the “System in the Room” approach. Let me explain. Imagine for...
by Edwin Merino | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog, Eco Momma, Non classifié(e), Spiritual, Sustainability
We are seeing the end of the flowing sap on the close horizon here in the Northeast from the beautiful and benevolent Maple Trees. Folks have been out on the land working hard, carrying heavy buckets filled with sap. Spending many an hour stoking the hot fires in...
by Edwin Merino | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability
Could we fight global warming from home? Or walk, ride, bike, train or sail to our next adventure? Earlier this year while we humans were quarantined, the planet thrived. Void of people, the environment came to life. Dolphins and swans could be seen swimming in the...
by Sara | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, System Thinking, World Cafe
The young woman from Yale asked me if I would moderate a panel. “I’d be honored to,” I said, “but I don’t do panels.” It’s a relief to have enough silver hairs, 25 years down this professional path to have the chutzpah to tell an Ivy League invitation what you will do...