Hi, I’m Michael.
After years as an engineer and corporate manager, I founded my own consulting firm focused on sustainability solutions. Since retiring, I’ve been tackling puzzles that align seemingly conflicting interests and discovering win-win strategies with my clients. I also support a project dedicated to ocean ecology. My wife Karin and my son Alex were the first to suggest a podcast for me. As a natural optimist and father of two wonderful kids, I tend to resist gloomy predictions about our future. We probably live in the best world we ever had, with the promise of making a meaningful life accessible for a growing part of the world population, but it is imperative to keep this spirit alive. Therefore, I’ve created an antidote to scepticism: ‘Michael’s Green World.’
How does a power grid stay stable when thousands of producers feed electricity into it at the same time?
A conversation with Tobias Andrist, CEO of EBL.
Recorded at EBL headquarters in Liestal.
Wie bleibt ein Stromnetz stabil, wenn tausende Produzenten gleichzeitig einspeisen?
Ein Gespräch mit Tobias Andrist, CEO der EBL.
Aufgenommen am Hauptsitz in Liestal.
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Ein Gespräch mit den IMD-Professoren Fréderic Dalsace und Goutam Challagalla über „No Green Premium“ und den Wandel von Nachhaltigkeit als Right to Play hin zu Innovation als Right to Win. Mit realen Unternehmensbeispielen und Einblicken in ihr im Harvard Business Review vorgestelltes Buch Clean Winners, das während der WEF-Woche 2026 in Davos lanciert wurde.
Teil 1 beleuchtete die Compliance-getriebenen Vorteile. Teil 2 steht für Sustainability 2.0.
Die zentrale Idee von Clean Winners ist: Nachhaltigkeit wird erst dann zum Wettbewerbsvorteil, wenn sie Innovation antreibt, die Ressourcenallokation steuert und neuen Kundennutzen schafft. Solange sie primär als Reporting- und Compliance-Aufgabe verstanden...
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A conversation with IMD professors Frédéric Dalsace and Goutam Challagalla on “no green premium” and the shift from sustainability compliance as a right to play toward innovation as a right to win. Real-world business cases and insights from their HBR-published book Clean Winners, launched in Davos during 2026 World Economic Forum week.
Part 1 focussed on compliance related benefits, Part 2 talks about Sustainability 2.0.
The central idea behind Clean Winners is that sustainability becomes a competitive advantage only when it drives innovation, guides resource allocation, and creates new value for the customer. As long as it is...