Insights Into Excellence

Forsyth Consulting Group is a strategic development consultancy.

The purpose of this publication is to share and integrate the insights into sustaining excellence that we discover through our work.

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Sustainable Excellence: Sustainable Industries - Leading Players

Stuart Energy's expertise in renewable energy began almost 100 years ago with hydrolysis - making hydrogen from water. The company itself was formed in 1948 with the farsighted vision of being a leader in the future hydrogen economy. Using hydrogen power completes a completely green energy cycle when combined with other renewable energy sources - pure oxygen being the 'waste' product. This future is almost here - as their joint venture partners Ford and Toyota have realized. If the one barrier to fuel cell powered cars is a re-fuelling infrastructure - earlier this year Stuart Energy began opening the first 'hydrogen service stations', which they have developed.

As we begin this century with different questions, the organisations that are building expertise in inherently sustainable industries will be better positioned than those building expertise in the industries in decline. This month's small company is one we hope continues to succeed.

Explore more:

http://www.stuartenergy.com/main_about.html - overview
http://www.h2cars.biz/artman/publish/printer_98.shtml -how to create fuel cell service station
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/21630 - beginnings
http://www.nesea.org/transportation/links.html - established industry

Play of the Day: Local League - Strategic Citizenship Alliances

Energex has an '80 year history of growth and leadership' as a Qld based energy supplier with 3100 employees, over 1 million customers and $3.1 billion in assets. In making the shift from coal, to gas, to renewables they have re-branded and formed new partnerships while expanding operations and creating efficiencies. Energex and the Banksia Environmental Foundation have teamed up on a number of initiatives in a beneficial and strategic corporate alliance. Their joint development of the Towards Leadership Code provides 'a roadmap for businesses to assess, develop and benchmark corporate sustainability' and Energex is a major sponsor of the Banksia Environmental Awards. They get this months play of the day for providing a roadmap from A to B for others to follow.

Read more at:

http://www.banksiafdn.com/ - National Awards

http://www.energex.com.au/environment/environment_partnerships.html - Check the Sustainability Report

http://www.energex.com.au/about_energex/about_energex.html - About Energex

Reflections in Excellence

The latest article is now available on-line. To go to our Reflections site just click Here.

If In Doubt: Do Something (Consciously)

We all look for certainty. While we live in uncertain times with uncertain futures we wish it were not so. However, living with risk and uncertainty is something that has always been a fact of life. What excites us is the ability to determine and predict our future, and perhaps even have a role in its co-creation.

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Dr Don Beck, who is running the Vancouver course, will be in Perth, WA next year as the key note speaker at the Senior Management Centre SLaM (Spirituality, Leadership and Management) Network conference on Creating Meaningful Workplaces. Advance details of that conference are available here (pdf format).

A major reason for companies not succeeding is in their ability to understand, manage and tolerate risk. Someone has finally grasped the principles of risk in a macro-perspective. In this book Berstein looks into history, covering the rise of probability theories, stock market successes and stories of fate and fortune over the last 450 years. He notes that understanding risk has taken us from helplessness to choice. However, he concludes that, where the raw material of any model is the data of the past, no amount of supercomputing or non-linear calculation can tell you what the future will be. The insight is that even when empowered with data - "likeness to the truth is not the same as truth" - and ultimately it is our thinking that guides us to recognize the difference.

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Satire (just for a laugh)

" The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything...or nothing. --Lady Nancy Astor

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