Office Solutions Goes Green

Sometimes it is difficult to let go of an idea becoming passionate. When Bob Mairena, president and co-founder of Office Solutions decided to recycle corrugated waste, the company had little interest in recycling companies. If you want to recycle, Office Solutions must pay. However, Mairena and his wife, co-founder and Cindy Mairena vice president are not satisfied with this. Therefore, in 2007 they asked for collection and recycling of corrugated waste.

That happened. Listen to the continuous version of "Eleanor Rigby" at the office, the light bulb will come to your head. Grasp the pencil stick and rumpled envelope and write a usable solution in 40 seconds - by the way, this solution completely rejects all previous ideas, but needs those rejected ideas I will. Fertilizer may bloom. Actually, this is how to write. It is dirty and effective. In principle, the brain has two main ways of working. Barbara Oakley calls these two modes "focus mode and diffusion mode" in the book "A Mind for Numbers". When focusing on problem solving, please use reasonable, sequential, analytical method. Then you will be in focus mode. When you relax your mind and make your idea last longer, diffusion mode happens. It's related to a global perspective

The way we deal with threats - entering emergency mode or maintaining normal mode - is highly contagious. Please imagine the fire of the office building. How much should you take it seriously? How can you tell if it is a hole or a real fire? These questions will be primarily answered by the actions and communication of people around them, especially those nominated as leaders. If they are chatting and it takes time to leave the building, you will think that this is a practice. If people move quickly, face severity and concentration and communicate with emergencies and gravity, you think that there is real danger and will withdraw as soon as possible.

Everyone who goes to a regular office meeting knows that the productivity of the meeting will improve when someone is not in the room. When the reason is in the room, it is difficult to talk about some problems. When a person who decides to resist change is present, it is difficult to talk about the solution. This is true when Australia, the world's largest coal exporter, attends meetings of other countries that wish to talk about climate change. When leaders of the Pacific island gather and talk about climate change, they do not disregard their remarks. This is because in low-lying countries such as Kiribati and Tuvalu, countries like Australia are planning to double coal export and expand coal-fired power stations. For these vulnerable countries, climate change not only poses a threat to their economy but also poses a threat to their existence.