Good leadership

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

D. K. Goodwin

DOE Falls Short

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The U.S. Department of Energy is wasting enough electricity to power more than 9,800 homes a year by failing to turn down the heat or air conditioning when its workers leave for the day, auditors said Thursday.

"In spite of its energy conservation leadership role, we found that the department and its facility contractors did not place adequate emphasis on reducing energy consumption" by adjusting their after-hours thermostats, Inspector General Gregory Friedman wrote.

The auditors found temperature "setback controls" lacking, broken or unused in 35 of 55 large buildings at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee; the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state.

MSNBC

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Anonymous