A funny thing shows up when you look up the origins of the words cooperation and competition in the dictionary. The word cooperate comes from Latin and means 'work together'. The origin of the word compete, which is also Latin, is ‘seek together’.
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A commuter boards the 116 Commuter bus in Hinesburg, Vermont.
Editor's note: Last week, Jan Blittersdorf was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change for her work advancing new ideas that are leading the way to a clean energy future and an economy that’s built to last.
Those of you who follow me know that a great deal of what I (as well as other NRG Systems team members) share here on this blog is about global economics rather than our business or the renewable energy industry.
How do companies continue to thrive when the current reality is shaky? By focusing on your employee base. Last month I wrote about supporting employees in times of uncertainty through high-quality communication strategies.
When I started at NRG Systems in 1999, I was immediately struck by the global destinations for our orders. A company of 20 people in Hinesburg, Vermont was shipping products to nearly every continent and multiple countries. I started keeping a list of where we were shipping.
There’s a lot of volatility in the wind industry at the moment. In the U. S. , the production tax credit (PTC) is set to expire at the end of 2012, and there’s a general lack of federal policy to support wind energy development.
Market-driven innovation has been on my mind often since the new year began. Uncertainty seems to reign worldwide in the wind industry in 2012, and it is comforting to be able to focus on something more directly within my own sphere of control — opportunity creation.
If Kristen Graf has her way, every year from now on there will be more women working in the wind industry.
We like to put ourselves and others in boxes. No, I don’t really mean that literally. By boxes I mean categories.