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7. Establishing Policies and Procedures for IT Use

Mike Halsey1  
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Genouillac, France
 

It’s one thing to make changes to your personal or professional life or to bring about changes to your business or working practices so that you can reduce your impact on the environment and climate change, but it’s another thing altogether to bring other people along with you for the journey.

This can never be done in a high-handed or preachy way as that is ultimately self-defeating as people will switch off from your message. What you have to do is educate, inspire, and make people want to come along ...

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