It’s Not Easy Being Green
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.
A number of the companies that I work with have started adding a line to the bottom of their e-mail signatures asking recipients to “think green” and avoid printing the e-mail if possible. Clearly it’s a good idea, and it has prompted me to speak to them about whether they had a green policy covering the way they do business.
The response is generally “no”--it’s just something the some staff members started doing, and it caught on with others. The obvious next question: Why they don’t have a specific policy? The response is generally that they don’t see a big enough financial benefit--in this economy, anything that’s not maximizing the contribution on the bottom line has to take a back seat.
I can understand that, but I don’t feel that the two are mutually exclusive, so let’s spend a little bit of time examining what a project manager can do to be environmentally friendly on their projects--regardless of the attitude of the organization they work for. This isn’t going to be a radical insight into the ways of project management, but sometimes it’s good to remind ourselves of how simple it can be to make a difference.
The PM as an example to others
As the PM, you set a number of behaviors about how a project is managed. You don’t need to get all of your stakeholders …
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