ABSTRACT
A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a society, an economy, a company or a person when the fundamentals of its existence, and therefore of its future, are about to change. Another strategic inflection point in the history of Homo sapiens was the early to mid-nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. The fact that the government obliged power companies to purchase wind power at fixed rates guaranteed investors a dependable stream of income. This made the members of the cooperatives more prone to come forward with investments. Business leadership for environmental protection and quality of life is only one of the pillars on which a U-turn from the destructive practices of the past and the present must be based. Companies offering protection for weather-related damage are now facing new challenges, many of them connected to the higher occurrence of extreme events.
