The start of fall might feel too soon to begin preparing for next winter. But with memories of snowstorms fresh in your mind, now is the perfect time to review your emergency response plans. Preparing emergency response plans of time also means you’ll be ready when snow, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, drought, or other types of severe weather hit. Continue reading
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#392 – LESSONS LEARNED IN OIL/GAS – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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My first job after college was with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) at which time in the 1960’s the chemical process industries far outstripped that of the rest of the manufacturing industries.
My second job was as a pioneer in the development of the North Sea, the expansion in search for oil and gas, leading in time to petroleum refining, the most hazardous of all offshore rolls at the time, was hookups, which is building the field, which was developed by a single central combined drilling and production platform. Continue reading
#390 – CONFRONTING THE (VUCA) STORM – DAVID ROSS
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We are experiencing change like never before. Leaders are not only grappling with momentous uncertainty resulting from the pandemic, but arguably an even greater storm awaits them—the storm of complex and interconnected social, environmental, and economic challenges. Climate change. Shifting workforce needs. Energy and water. Poverty. Conflict, international and localised. “Normal” is never coming back. Continue reading
#389 – CANADIAN TRANSPARENCY (OR LACK THERE OF) – EDITORIAL – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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It makes me mad and sad, that with all the perks and Inflated salaries Canada’s government has come off badly again in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index, with the country’s score falling faster than that of any other country in the 180-nation rankings released this week. Canada’s score has dropped to its lowest ever, 74 out of 100 a slide that has cost Canada eight points over the past five years alone. Continue reading
#388 – COMMUNICATION SKILLS REALLY MATTER – BILL POMFRET PH.D.
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Back in 1990, I was introduced to Og Mandino, a best selling American author, just three of his books, “The Greatest Salesman in the World” The Greatest Miracle in The World” and “The Greatest Secret in the World” these three books alone sold over 50 million copies, his lecture was on “How to write and Speak.” In his presentation, which had been a tradition for more than 40 years, was posted on YouTube not long after his death in 1996. In it, he explains the relationship among three critical elements of any level of success: knowledge (K), practice (P) and talent (T). Continue reading