Is your workplace as stable as you’d like?
Have you opened an email to find the department or organisation is going through a restructure – and it has to be done now? Have you planned for months the new project, only to find at the last minute forces beyond your control turn your plans...
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Change your Life by Changing your Attitude
As a leader, the right attitude can define an average leader, from an extraordinary leader. Making decisions under pressure and handling conflict between team members can bring out the best or worst in a leader. The extraordinary leader is defined...
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The ‘Art’ of Coaching
How many times have you had work issues that you feel are unsolvable? How many times have you felt isolated and not getting the best out of individuals or your team? How long has this been going on? Days, months, even years?There is no...
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Strategy is NO more a Game of Chess!
Strategic management is the activity that managers undertake for one purpose only – to create tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s. It contrasts with operational management whose purpose is - to execute the actions required to ensure that...
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Entrepreneurship - How could it apply to me?
What is the meaning of “entrepreneur” and how could it apply to me?An entrepreneur is normally described as a person who takes personal risk and responsibility for starting an organisation or taking an established organisation to a higher stage...
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The link between Maintenance Costs and Reliability
In our search to manage, contain or control maintenance costs we need to accept first of all that we have no direct control over maintenance costs. Any cost control initiative requires that we must first establish the underlying causes or factors...
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7 habits to ruin your Root Cause Analysis (and how to avoid them)
Complex problems in your technical systems might appear not to be so complex at all, if your facilitators were able to keep it simple. But in a complex world we expect problems to be complex and therefore we create complex approaches even for simple...
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5 Competencies of the Most Admired Leaders
What is it to be a leader? Why do some people lead and some people follow? The answers to these questions concerning leadership, and many more, can be seen in what we observe as well as study in other people. From our observations we then...
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Which Wireline Tools Do You Know That Can Measure Porosity?
If you believe that for most of you this will be a very easy question to answer, think it twice, most people will answer something like this:That is easy! Density, neutron & sonic, some others that are a little more technical will include Nuclear...
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4 Principles to Improve FMECA Sessions and Quality
Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis is a convenient method to gather knowledge and experience about the behavior of your technical systems, apart from the information and specifications you already have in your documentation. FMECA...
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Corporate Finance in a Nutshell: A Jargon-Free Guide
It is no surprise that the term ‘Corporate Finance’ is not generally well understood, because even the accountants seem to think that it has three meanings. Broadly speaking these are:Corporate Finance – the MoneyEvery business needs finance....
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The Future of Global Oil and Gas Business
The Global Oil and Gas Business is going through a period of significant change. The outlook for prices is uncertain, problematic, and subject to pressures from alternative energy sources. In addition the growth in global demand is coming from...
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Waterworld – The Earth Has Seen It Before
Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic science fiction action film starring Kevin Costner. The setting of the film is in the distant future. Although no exact date was given in the film itself, it has been suggested that it takes place in...
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Keep Your Financial Accounting Skills Set-Sharp Relevant
“Are you losing touch with your financial accounting know-how and getting left behind in today’s world of rapid change and economic turmoil?”You may think your financial accounting know-how is adequate and up-to-date for financial reporting,...
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لا للقلق
ما هي الضغوط؟هي مجموعة المتغيرات الجسمية والنفسية التي تحدث للفرد أثناء مواجهته للمواقف المحيطة التي تمثل تهديدا له. أي الضغوط هي ردود...
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