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...turned out the old world wasn't ready for Nonaka's vision. Sanyo's losses continued to mount. Nonaka lost the CEO title last year, and she resigned as chairwoman in March. Her radical program, dubbed Think Gaia, "was a very good strategy," says Yasuyuki Onishi, a Tokyo-based financial journalist who wrote a recent book on Sanyo's woes. "But it wasn't the right time to think Gaia. Sanyo had to think for itself...
...amid a government investigation of possible accounting irregularities. While Sanyo was beset by problems before Nonaka arrived, including cutthroat price competition from South Korea and China, her attempt to radically change the corporate mind-set had become a distraction from urgent problems, analysts said. She had to go. "Think Gaia was a very good strategy," says Yasuyuki Onishi, a Tokyo-based financial journalist who wrote a recent book on Sanyo's woes. "But it wasn't the right time to think Gaia. Sanyo had to think for itself...
...earth. He believed that the living and non-living parts of the earth form a single, self-regulating system. When some change occurs within the “system,” some other part of the system reacts to restore the original conditions. He called the theory the Gaia hypothesis, after Gaia, the Greek goddess of earth...
...theory helps to explain some interesting things about the history of earth’s atmosphere. But the most optimistic element of the Gaia hypothesis is its forward-looking aspect. Taken to its extreme, the theory suggests that global warming will fix itself, at least partially. But there is increasing evidence that the most optimistic element of the Gaia hypothesis is, unfortunately, false...
There’s a larger lesson here, however, than where not to plant trees: Optimism alone will not slow climate change. The Gaia hypothesis, taken to an extreme, implies that humans can sit back and watch the Earth warm, and eventually the earth will respond and restore itself. The view is characteristic of many individuals’ (and nations’) attitudes today. True, the earth will respond, but when it’s finished responding, it won’t look anything like the earth we have now. By now, you’ve probably heard the litany...