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Is There Still A Place For The Autocratic Manager In Modern Industry?: History has often admired and applauded the autocratic manager, but have there been that many successful autocrats, and does the top-down leadership style have a place in the modern day business arena? Columnist Derek Park investigates. read more
manager | process excellence | Derek Park
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Reliability, Safety And Cost Savings - Buy One Get Two Free: Against a background of aging assets and cost reduction, industry is still looking for improvements in safety and productivity.What are the five things to take into consideration to improve this in perpetuity? read more
asset | Asset integrity | process
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Why Are We So Bad At Setting Priorities?: The world doesn’t owe us a living. In an increasingly competitive arena we not only have to continually improve our performance but we also have to be sure that we are working on the things that really matter for 100% of our time. To do that we need to be really good at setting priorities. So how good are we at doing the important things all of the time? read more
Derek Park | performance | management
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Can We Compete In The Global Game Of Snakes And Ladders?: The west finds itself in a tough race with the increasingly influential economies from the east. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the supply and consumption of energy, particularly oil and gas. Are there things we can do to at least partially redress the balance, particularly in the UK? read more
People Are The Missing Ingredient | derek park | China
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The Rogue's Gallery: A List of Oil & Gas Characters You Might Recognise: A good manager achieves nothing on his own. He needs the people around him to act if he is to make any difference at all. This dependence on others means that one person could frustrate the best intentions of managers if for any reason they decide not to play their part. read more
People Are The Missing Ingredient | Derek Park | management
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The Pitfalls Of Contracts: Are Our Contracting Relationships All That They Might Be?: The public sector has always been the butt of derision when it comes to managing major projects, but is the oil and gas sector entirely immune from mismanagement through poor contract procedures? read more
Edinburgh | tram | oil & gas
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Why Don't We Manage For The Long-Term?: More and more, and not just in industry, we seem to find it difficult to work on the things that really matter. Our priorities seem to be set by others and often we never quite get round to addressing some concerns, especially if these concerns are in the longer term or strategic arena. read more
management | process | process excellence
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How Can We Better Include People In Our Decision Making?: The most important job of a manager is to make sure that their staff work on the right things. However people often work on the wrong things simply because that is what their managers tell them to do. Ironically staff often know what these ‘right things’ are so the question is, ‘How can managers routinely access this knowledge for the benefit of the business?’ read more
manager | process excellence | employees
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Is The Oil & Gas Industry Serious About Asset Integrity?: More than one year after the Gulf of Mexico disaster, are BP and the rest of the industry genuine about wanting change in the way things are done? read more
asset integrity | process improvement | asset
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