Green Smoke & Mirrors: Unsustainable Leadership Lessons from Irish Energy and Football Failures
How many leaders rely on "smoke & mirrors" to fool their fans into thinking their apparent success is more sustainable than it really is?
In what ways have you been fooled into thinking that bottom line results — like the potentially misleading win-loss record of an undefeated sports team — reflect actual potential and long-term viability?
How often have you fallen into the trap of parroting talking points — like the potentially misleading facts & figures supporting renewable energy — that, in turn, lead to short-sighted decisions?
Regardless of your answers to those questions, Episode 72 of The Energy Detox will remind you that bottom-line results don't always speak for themselves, drawing upon 2 green history lessons from the worlds of sports & energy:
1 - Notre Dame’s 2002 “Smoke & Mirrors” football season, during which the 8-0 Fighting Irish — wearing green jerseys at home for the first time in 17 years — were fully exposed in an upset loss to Boston College.
2 - Ireland’s 2022 “Smoke & Mirrors” energy policy that has caused the Irish — who are stubbornly relying on a short-sighted view of “green” energy that has led to a continued rebuke of potential LNG facilities — to be the “worst prepared country in Europe” in terms of their ability to withstand an energy crisis.