50 Days of Feedback to Strengthen Your Energy Leadership Core
Energy is at the core of developed societies.
Feedback is at the core of developed leaders.
Those two core truths converge on Route 50 in Avella, PA, site of Episode 110 of The Energy Detox podcast, which draws on:
1) The 50-50-50 Energy Corps vision announced by EQT’s Toby Rice and Switch Energy Alliance’s Dr. Scott Tinker last month at CERAWeek—50 MWh and $50K GDP per capita within 50 years to lift people out of energy poverty and help them thrive.
2 - The Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village—a reminder of how people in North America lived, but didn’t necessarily thrive, for most of the last 19,000 years without modern energy.
The result is a 50-50-50 feedback challenge that pushes you—and other energy leaders—to consciously give and request 1 piece of feedback each day for the next 50 days—so that you and your stakeholders don't just survive...but thrive.
For a basic Feedback50 tracker to make this challenge a bit easier:
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Note: the content of this and all episodes of The Energy Detox represents the views of Joe Sinnott and is not endorsed, sponsored, or approved in any way by Liberty Energy.
Download or request a hard copy of Liberty Energy’s “Bettering Human Lives” report here: https://libertyenergy.com/esg/bettering-human-lives/
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"HARMFUL FOSSIL FUELS"
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editorialize - verb: to make comments or express opinions rather than just report the news
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