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GreenWave live /summer conference - 2022

GreenWave live /summer conference - 2022

As the summer conference moved along I took down some key words that need to be integrated in ones thought process. This is a collection of words and my interpretations on Leadership.

Thanks the Glenn Hallam and his team for coordinating this amazing networking event. https://greenwave.live/summer-2022

  • Passion –  “I have hope” – leaders – vision- manage
  • I see a future
  • Action – make things happen
  • Connect with others – opportunity for change
  • Persistence – tell your story – mobilize – relationships
  • I believe – responsibility – create
  • Love the environment – savior the planet
  • Realize entrepreneurial energy
  • Self-motivation – command and control
  • Tell the story of the future – compelling   vision
  • Climate mitigation – values of home and work
  • Leverage to do the right thing
  • Implement values in all you do – sustainability
  • Connect the young with the older – changes
  • Giving voice to values – ask a different question
  • Once you know – how to make it happen comes next – results
  • Frame the challenge
  • Change happens – systemic issues – incremental  - your values
  • How to get the right thing done
  • Moral mussel memory – similar to physical memory from training – rehearse
  • Move forward – accept the risk – be aware – know how to act
  • Rehearse – practice – quality – do it all prior to a presentation
  • You would do what --- if? Plan ahead
  • Deviate from the norm – habits
  • Act your way into another way of thinking
  • It is all about tradeoffs in ethics, earth, time, finance – where do you stand?
  • The process of getting there
  • There are many ways to finance a project – do your homework for the short term and the long road ahead
  • Power of dialog – facilitator
  • In a conference all you need is 1 new idea and 1 new contact – that is considered a great success
  • Making sustainability solutions real
  • Leverage all opportunity – renewal – transformation
  • Obligations to re-define all aging infrastructure into the future needs now
  • Transform – it is a brave new world – social – economic – sustainable – keep these in your heart and actions
  • Look at all fundamental assumptions – integration of ideas, financing, society – no one left behind
  • MAKR IT REAL

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ECS

Economy: The uses of our human, living organism, and planet resources respectfully and efficiently.

Community: Living, supporting, and buying locally, while viewing the Earth and all its resources as part of our local community.

Sustainability: Freedom of living entities to prosper into the Earth’s future while following Economy and Community protocol.

The chant, mantra, or branding of ECS works. It energies’. It is short and to the point. Spread the message and amplify it. Let’s get our community, Earth beings excited and activated to make the change, to vote in the best interest of the future of mankind and Earth!

Follow Up Work

Follow Up Work

Taking on small projects lead to great projects.

 

One example of being introduced to a new client is picking up a very small project as a favor. I did this on a $600 fee project just to get a Tenant improvement permit. The introduction came from one of the engineers I work with. This turned into the entire Scotty Building rehab of a five story building and a new 36,000 s.f. mixed use retail and office building. This led to being hired by many of the new tenants, and being hired by LADWP for energy studies.

 

Having a great relationship with all your engineers can really be a benefit to company growth. 

Markus Aurelius – Meditations

Markus Aurelius – Meditations

I keep reading the Humanities books interspersed with all other type books. This helps me slow down. It helps me understand societal patterns and the individuals who make up our cultures.

 

I am including my interpretation on a few of the Markus Aurelius - Meditation statements overlapped with my thoughts.

 

Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

Most architects have read Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. That was the forerunner to Atlas Shrugged.

I have picked out some of the themes going on in the book. I do not believe in the way high society plays out in America. So, the author and I do have differences in thought and Value. However, those who think, produce, maintain our American and World ways do support the activities of human kind. They do deserve fair and just compensation. Each one of us need to decide what that effort is worth.

Strike Force Architecture

Strike Force Architecture

Over the last 40 plus years working as an architect, my team and I feel as if we are Soldiers. A knight of the round table puts on armor with lance and heads into the fray. They would follow their leader’s direction to reach the King’s goals. In current times the Navy Seals or army Rangers do the same thing.

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