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  • The Science and Art of Change Leadership

    October 18th, 2023

    Most of us know that one of the “certainties” of life and business is that change is a constant. There are some great models and guidelines for Managing and Leading change available to help organizations, structure, plan and achieve their goals and reasons for changing. We believe that with...

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  • Leaders vs Managers

    September 28th, 2023

     Research has found there are tangible behaviors and characteristics that differentiate leaders vs. managers.

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  • Performance Management with Impact

    September 20th, 2023

    Performance Management is a critical component of driving effective and robust talent pipelines and research has shown a consistent pattern of leading practices.

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  • Filling and Sustaining the Talent Pipeline

    September 7th, 2023

    When asked where they believe CEO’s should be spending the majority of their time, Boards of Directors of Fortune 500 companies more likely than not will site “growing talent.” In fact, many have indicated well over 50% of a CE0’s time should be devoted to this space. With this as a...

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  • Hydrogen Likely End Users

    September 6th, 2023

    The most likely end users of hydrogen: directly as a fuel burned in place of current fuels e.g., natural gas, feed to fuel cells, and the production of green ammonia and green methanol.

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  • Agile Culture

    August 30th, 2023

    The ”technical” process and “people behavior” partnership   As the “Agile Culture” revolution has evolved, not surprisingly, there has been an intersection between where the “technical process” factors meet the “behavioral” / “people-focused” factors. For years,...

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  • Agile HR

    August 16th, 2023

    Agile Human Resources As we conclude the first series of blogs around “Agility” and people-focused “best practices,” here are some thoughts on what it means to have an “Agile HR support team.” For years, HR has been striving for that coveted “seat at the table.” And, based on...

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  • Agile Workforce Planning

    August 2nd, 2023

    A company’s commitment to adopt an “Agile” work philosophy and method is the name of the game right now and will be a differentiator for success.

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  • Hydrogen – Storage Options

    June 20th, 2023

    Hydrogen Storage Options In this the fourth of five short blogs , we will address, again without going deeply into the weeds, the options for the storage of hydrogen.  Hydrogen can be stored as a gas at high pressures or as a liquid at very low temperatures or in the form of a liquid hydrogen...

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  • Hydrogen – Transportation Options

    March 30th, 2023

    There is considerable discussion in the literature about the options for the transport of hydrogen. It can be transported by truck or rail as either a liquid or gas; by ship as a liquid; by pipeline either pure or blended with natural gas; or by using a hydrogen carrier e.g., ammonia, methanol,...

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  • IS YOUR LEADERSHIP PIPELINE RUNNING DRY?

    February 8th, 2023

    A case for mentorship in leadership development   Developing and sustaining a continuous pipeline of leaders is a challenge for most companies under normal circumstances but is now an even greater need to develop and deploy solutions in the energy transition environment.  The urgent demand for...

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  • Hydrogen – How Does It Compare to Natural Gas and Ammonia?

    January 18th, 2023

    In this second of five short blogs we will address, again without going deeply into the weeds, the comparative characteristics of hydrogen to understand its place and ranking as an alternative fuel for the future.

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  • A World Without Gas Stations

    October 20th, 2022

    Electric Vehicles (EVs) are here to stay and will become the new normal. We are well on our way to a world without gas stations.

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  • Hydrogen – What’s It All About?

    October 3rd, 2022

    Are you seeing the almost endless volume of articles, press releases, and webinars on hydrogen and the coming hydrogen economy and somewhat confused by it all?  Hopefully, this summary will help provide clarity without going too deeply into the weeds. Why the interest in hydrogen? The drive for...

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  • Managing Repurposed Offshore Platforms

    September 13th, 2022

    The current trend of removing fixed or floating offshore Oil and Gas platforms either for demolition or for the rigs-to-reefs program misses the opportunity of creating new revenue streams, particularly in the ever-expanding energy transition arena. Repurposing these platforms for green energy or...

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  • Transformational Strategy

    February 9th, 2022

    Transformational Strategy focuses on large, cross-functional processes and entire business systems.

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  • The Momentum of Integration - A Fully Interconnected Unit

    August 30th, 2021

    Integration within the Organization encourages your organization to be a fully-interconnected unit. Learn to bring everything together using Journey Management to move toward organizational success.

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  • Measuring Organizational Progress

    August 12th, 2021

    Are we making Progress? Using the Baldrige questionnaire ( Baldrige Website ) and survey results can provide volumes of information about how well your organization is progressing in its journey toward success. The following graphs were derived from the 2011 survey on the Baldrige Board of...

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  • See the Whole Organization on a Single Page

    August 9th, 2021

    Integration within the Organization provides huge benefits when you can see the whole organization on a single page. Learn how to use the Key Themes Tool to view integration of the whole.

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  • Building Organizational Maturity

    July 29th, 2021

    Integration within the Organization allows you to judge your organization and build strength. Scoring Guidelines can be used to refine processes, make the most of measures, and strive for excellence.

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  • Capture your Organization’s True Character

    July 21st, 2021

    Integration within the Organization captures an organization’s true character. Discover your organization’s character by comparing it to an ideal organization, with merit and worth.

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  • Understanding Purpose is Pivotal to Success

    July 14th, 2021

    Purpose, begins with the End in Mind How do you define Success?  We know organizational success is based on many variables.  Why are some organizations more successful than others?  The answer is simple. Defining the organization’s “purpose” is pivotal to its success.  In recent years,...

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  • What measures are you taking to ensure that your business is not becoming susceptible to mediocrity via groupthink?

    July 9th, 2021

    Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of well-intentioned people makes irrational or non-optimal decisions spurred by the urge to conform or the belief that dissent is impossible. The problematic or premature consensus that is characteristic of groupthink may be fueled by a...

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  • Discover the Power of Integration!

    July 8th, 2021

    To set the stage for this discussion on integration we need definitions [i] regarding the topic. Integration The harmonization of plans, processes, information, resource decisions, workforce capability, and capacity, actions, results, and analyses to support key organization-wide goals. Effective...

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  • Why Maximizing Production Means More Today Than Ever

    May 21st, 2021

    The trend of oil price forecasts has changed from years past and if you are not changing your business focus accordingly, you may be missing out on significant value. Historically, multi-year oil price forecasts when oil price was $100/bbl or lower have shown an increase per annum of...

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  • Wave of Energy Transition

    April 8th, 2021

    How should companies plan to address this change to exploit opportuities in the Energy Transition market?  How can such an evaluation take place when, in many cases, these sectors are not as mature or at an early stage?

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  • Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Carbon Footprint Modeling

    March 30th, 2021

    Today, we hear quite a bit about the energy transition and see many global companies resetting their business strategies to incorporate the impending move from oil and gas toward renewable forms of energy. The resetting incorporates anything from ambitious carbon footprint targets to measurable...

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  • 3 Top Demands of CEOs

    February 22nd, 2021

    As we work with CEOs and Boards of Directors at many different companies, we are starting to see some changes in what Boards demand from their CEOs.  Some of the things we see are pretty standard (Corporate Strategy) but some of the things are less traditional in terms of what CEOs in the past...

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  • Analysis of Brazil's Oil and Gas Sector

    November 23rd, 2020

    Endeavor Management would like to present its latest report on the O&G Sector in Brazil, recently published in World Oil magazine.  Ricardo Giamattey and Bruce Crager describe the current landscape in Brazil for the O&G industry, also including a section on renewables.  To understand...

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  • Preparing for the Future of Offshore Oil and Gas

    October 7th, 2020

    Are you ready for the next phase of Offshore Oil & Gas? Bruce Crager shares his views on preparing for the future of offshore oil and gas.

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  • Oil and Gas Markets after COVID

    September 28th, 2020

    When and how the Oil and Gas market will be in equilibrium once again is yet uncertain, but there is no reason to doubt the industry´s resilience Overview COVID-19 impact in the global economy may not be as severe as anticipated . When the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled and we reach “COVID...

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  • Brazil O&G

    July 20th, 2020

    Brazil joined the group of relevant O&G geographies given the discovery of a potential offshore hydrocarbons resource base so huge that perhaps its full potential will never be fully uncovered – this is known today in the O&G industry as the “Brazilian pre salt”.

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  • What To Consider When Hiring a Coach

    June 8th, 2020

    Who supports you?  What to consider when hiring a coach,

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  • Supply Chain Plan

    June 8th, 2020

    There are many businesses that have just tried to keep their head above water for the past few months with their supply chain plan.  Now is the time to get back in the game and reignite the growth engines.  What needs to be communicated, and agreed to, with your partners – up and down the...

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  • Mid-level Leaders Business Transformation

    June 1st, 2020

    How are Mid-level Leaders Part of Your Business Transformation? In this time of business transformation, engagement of Mid-level leaders by the executive team is crucial.  Mid-level Leaders (managers) support the message from the C-Suite and provide the feedback loop critical to getting all on...

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  • Who Will Lead

    May 26th, 2020

    What is required to lead post-crisis?

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  • The Power of Purpose

    May 12th, 2020

    The power of purpose is more evident now than ever. Create a compelling purpose that gets employees eager to come to work.

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  • Case Study: Agile Marketing Communications

    April 20th, 2020

    Unlike most highly visible touchpoints that take weeks to plan, produce, and deploy, this commercial needed to be created and implemented within a week. To make this happen, Endeavor facilitated an agile, teamwork-centered approach in collaboration with Northstar's marketing leadership.  

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  • Trust - The Underpinning of Anything Great

    April 20th, 2020

    Trust. The underpinning of anything great. Crucial in good times and critical in challenging times, trust is the balm that reduces friction and allows for high performance…even in challenging times. If you’ve been part of any of our workshops, team meetings or executive coaching you have come...

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  • The Power of Consumer Insight During a Time of Crisis

    April 8th, 2020

    As we are all learning to navigate this new normal, many leaders and marketers are faced with the uncertainty of what customers and want and need – there’s a lot of power in consumer insights during a crisis. The good news is that consumers are continuing to engage in online research, and...

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  • Crisis Communications Tips for Leaders

    April 8th, 2020

    During crisis communications, many businesses are unsure how to best communicate with customers, and what they should say.  Here are our top recommendations for how to successfully engage your customers during this time of uncertainty.

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  • Dispersed Work Teams? How's it Working Out?

    April 6th, 2020

    Now that several weeks have passed, it would be interesting to hear what good practices have emerged.  From my discussions with colleagues and experience working virtually for the last 5 years after 35 years of corporate office life, here are a few efficient ways of working as a virtual team...

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  • What's Up With You? It May Be Grief

    April 6th, 2020

    While originally born from work on the death of a loved one, what we have learned is this same cycle of emotions applies for any loss or change. Whether death, the loss of a job, the furloughing of colleagues, or the loss of access to a fitness facility, all bring about similar waves of emotion.

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  • So Many People to Keep Informed, So Little Time

    April 6th, 2020

    When it comes to organizing communications quickly across a number of groups, there's a useful process called stakeholder analysis.  Stakeholder analysis is used to identify all audiences (usually focused on internal or external stakeholders, not necessarily customers), your need for their...

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  • Which Part of Your Data Analytics Dollar is Wasted?

    November 12th, 2019

    You can improve the effectiveness of your data analytics investments. Here’s a good way to start. “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” You’ve probably heard that saying by department-store magnate John Wanamaker...

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  • Downstream Industry - Optimize Key Parts of the Value Chain

    October 3rd, 2019

    The change in downstream market conditions is an opportunity for the downstream sector to move even further toward operational efficiency and effectiveness by capitalizing on ways to optimize key parts of the value chain.

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  • DDDP Announcement

    June 5th, 2019

    Endeavor Management is excited to participate in next week’s Data Driven Drilling & Production Conference (DDDP) on June 11-12, 2019, in Houston.

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  • B-in Partners and Endeavor

    January 22nd, 2019

    B-in Partners is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Endeavor Management for mutual cooperation in a Global Alliance.

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  • Ice Management

    January 3rd, 2019

    Dealing with the ever-changing ice cover in Arctic waters is one of the most challenging issues for any human activity there, particularly with ice management. Whether the task is moving vessels through the ice to their destinations or keeping ice clear of drilling vessels or production...

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  • Offshore Arctic Exploration and Development

    January 3rd, 2019

    A Team Approach To successfully explore and develop offshore oil and gas resources, finding, developing, and renewing the personnel resources for Arctic exploration and development operations depends on identifying individuals who possess: Wisdom – from Knowledge gained Knowledge – from...

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  • Creating a Truly Integrated Management System

    October 12th, 2018

    The average NFL team is run by 2-3 front-office personnel and about 15 coaches. That’s about 18 individuals charged with ensuring they win. Yet not one of them has the specific title of ensuring they don’t lose. They do not have a Coach of Penalty Avoidance, a VP of Injury Prevention or a...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #10: Big Picture

    October 12th, 2018

    Fundamentals of OE #10: Staying Focused on the big picture Summary: Don’t lose sight of the objective of your OE efforts Many OE programs get launched and, years later, after hundreds of changes, little has really improved At the end of the day, the shortest path to Operational Excellence is...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #9: Culture

    October 12th, 2018

    Fundamentals of OE #9: Getting the Culture Right Summary Culture can be one of the greatest competitive advantages for any company, helping it stay ahead even if product, process or talent-based advantages diminish Operationally Excellent companies treat culture as an ongoing effort to be...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #8: Governance

    October 12th, 2018

    Fundamentals of OE #8: Establish Governance that Improves Decisions Summary: Governance is a critical aspect of a functioning, continuously improving organization Many companies take a one-size-fits-all approach to governance, which over-burdens some decisions and turns it into a check-the-box...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #7: Establish Clear Lines of Ownership & Accountability

    October 12th, 2018

    Summary: Ownership and accountability are critical to operational excellence, primarily to your ability to continuously improve A lack of accountability can set you into a spiral of continuous change, create redundant controls, add cost to your improvement efforts and hold back innovation To...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #6: Take an Adaptive Approach to Technology

    October 12th, 2018

    Summary: Technology can help achieve operational excellence, but it isn’t dependent on advanced your technology is Operational Excellence requires a holistic approach to technology where the objective is adapting to tech rather than simply adopting it This approach expands the focus from...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #5: Keep It Simple

    October 12th, 2018

    Summary: Management Systems naturally grow more complex over time A key objective of a management system is to simplify how the organization works together, which means the system itself must be simple Keep in mind what the system is intended for, and who it is supposed to help, and build in...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #4: Use a Process-Based Decision Making Framework

    October 12th, 2018

    Fundamentals of OE #4: Use a Process-Based Framework for Key Decisions Summary Your system should be made up of a set of processes necessary to manage the risks within scope A process-based system has less built-in complexity, can have embedded continuous improvement, and is easier to manage...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #3: Design it to Work for You

    October 12th, 2018

    Fundamentals of OE #3: Design your OE Program to Work for You Summary A common approach is to adopt a system from a leading company as the basis for your company’s system The problem is that the things you cannot see are what make a Management System effective and compatible with your...

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  • Fundamentals of OE #2: Enable Agility Through Organizational Muscle Memory

    October 12th, 2018

    “The right decision is the wrong decision if it’s made too late”. Lee Iacocca   Summary The pace of change in every industry requires rapid and constant strategy adjustments, so consistent execution requires agility Traditional methods for ensuring consistent execution make the system...

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