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Valentine's Day (or the Feast of St. Valentine) has been traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages when the tradition of courtly love flourished in 18th century England and is still celebrated today in various ways all around the world.  So with all the...

I was recently interviewed by one of the nation's leading energy magazines and asked my thoughts about the biggest challenges facing the downstream industry in terms of employment for 2015.  My answer was echoed in this article by Dorothy Davis Ballard Entitled "Your...

In keeping with our annual tradition of our December newsletter addition being more "in the holiday spirit", I thought I'd share some excerpts from a poll that was taken for "About.com" by Susan Heathfield, a management and organizational development consultant who...

It's that time of the year where there's a definite nip in the air, orange and red leaves cover the ground, and the smell of pumpkin pie and turkey are imminently around the corner.  So it's appropriate that our thoughts turn to Thanksgiving and all that we have to be...

An article entitled "Can Oil Refineries Fix Stupid? - Improve refinery safety performance by establishing the proper leadership culture" by Steve Pagani that appeared in the e-newsletter "RefinerLink" on 9/7/14...

I'm sure that your lives, like mine, revolve around "keeping an eye on the time."  Whether for personal or professional obligations, we can't get away from our time obligations and the need to stay on schedule for fear of turning our whole day upside down.  And yet it...