Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure you do but if things then run late or go wrong, tell your client at the earliest opportunity

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we address population growth sooner rather than later. Efficiency improvements, increased use of renewable resources and less waste in themselves are no longer sufficient to put us back into credit

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.