Career Development

We all have choices about how to handle difficult people at work. Sometimes our old patterns of behavior in dealing with hard-to-manage people may limit our thinking and thus, our effectiveness. It is essential to revisit our choices before we are in a crisis or a time-bounded reactive situation.

Adel Anwar, management consultant, focuses on effective thinking and superior leadership.

Khalid Aziz, Stanford University, examines the costs and benefits of graduate education by sharing his experience and the lessons he learned along the way.

Presenting results of a 2007 SPE survey on dual-career couples in the oil and gas industry.

Ganesh Thakur, Chevron Energy Technology, discusses the important role that technical professionals play within our industry and the challenges that lie ahead.

Catherine Hick, Managing Director of TMS Development International, promotes a common framework for teamwork across geographic and cultural boundaries.

The pace of globalization, despite its critics around the world, continues unabated. This reality raises increasingly pressing management issues for multinationals engaged in today’s complex and rapidly changing environment.

Insight from Jasper Ring, Subsurface Manager for Chevron's Blind Faith Project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Creativity is not a single or simple process. It includes several key elements that, when combined, result in a new and innovative product or process.

Khaled Al-Buraik, Chief Petroleum Engineer, Petroleum Engineering and Development, E&P, at Saudi Aramco offers insight about the company, its recruitment and career development mechanisms, and its development and promotion programs.