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Ok. So I haven’t seen the Al Gore movie (that’s not a political statement, so no political posts, please!), but there’s a whole lotta green talk going on these days. As far as I can surmise from reading, watching, listening and thinking, going green is nice for the environment but better for the pocket book for corporations – not that there’s anything wrong with that. And with gasoline topping $110 a barrel (can you say goodbye SUV and hello sub-compact, ala the EU), a lot of energy is costing a lot more green, and companies need to invest in technology and process alignment in the supply chain to reduce as much fuel and energy waste as possible.

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I recently joined a networking community for bloggers on a website called MyBlogLog, and stumbled upon this great blog called The Bee Hive. One of Ibrahim’s past posts, SCOR Metrics—Is It Enough?, goes through the history of SCOR and explains how it fits in with today’s scorecards.

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This morning I was reading a piece entitled Adding Green to the Picture that actually features Inovis’ own blogger and Vice President of Product and Strategic Applications, Erik Huddleston. This article is about how achieving a green supply chain may be easier than you think.

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My good friend (author and trainer) Rich St. Denis recently e-mailed me to let me know that he would be visiting ESPN in the near future to speak about Emotional Intelligence. Rich (richstdenis@earthlink.net) has created a number of courses about EI and has developed this into an art. About fifteen years ago, Rich and I sat down over multiple cups of coffee and talked about all sorts of things related to and about emotional intelligence to include the questions leaders should ask themselves. Rich and I understand that Emotional Intelligence is something that takes years to master and is a critical component to being a good leader.

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