15 June 2015

• Carbon footprint: The amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organization, or community.
• It's worth emphasizing that the few companies that are making material progress on their carbon footprint are those with explicit emissions reduction  commitments measured in absolute terms. (Gregory Unruh) 

14 June 2015

• Temporal: Enduring for a time only, temporary; transitory.
• Certainly there has been variability, particularly on a regional scale, but, at the global scale, we have developed-indeed, thrived-during a temporal island of climatic stability. (Howard-Grenville, Buckle, Hoskins, George) 
• Tipping point: A point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change. 
• Taken together, the data suggest, that sustainability movement is nearing a tipping point, the point at which the substantial portion of companies are not only seeing the need of sustainable business practices but are also deriving financial benefits from these activities. (MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group)

13 June 2015

• Magical thinking: Believing that one event happens as the result of another without a plausible link or causation.
• This way of not looking at the world is what developmental psychologists call "magical thinking," of which the best-known example is the child who covers her eyes and believes it makes her vanish from sight. (Mellisa A. Berman) 
• Smug: Contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority or correctness; complacent
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• Hard-nosed: Hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical
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9 June 2015

• Watershed: An important period or factor that serves as a divided line.
• Charles now counted the case as a watershed in the section's development.  (HBR)
• Tour de force: An exceptional achievement by an artist, or author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person, or anyone else; stroke of a genius
• Janet had performed an analytic tour de force smashing the case wide open in the last minutes of the class. (HBR)
• Rashomon Effect: The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible account of it.
• Sustainability is similar to a concept in cinematography called Roshoman Effect.           (Whitfield & McNett)
• Value Proposition: (In marketing) an innovation, service, or feature intended to make a company or product attractive to customers. 
• Thought leadership has long been a cornerstone of BCG's value proposition. (BCG)
• Steve knows that successful business strategies from winning value propositions-the benefits a product offers  to a target segment of the market, along with actions that deliver those benefits. (Bill Barnett)