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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

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Paul Hawken
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 8
Environmentalist
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San Mateo
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If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
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his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.
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We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
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