Terra Incognita: A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders - Hardcover

Ross, Christopher E.H.; Sloan, Lane E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593701098 ISBN 13: 9781593701093

Publisher: PennWell Corp., 2007

Synopsis

Terra Incognita addresses the forthcoming transition in energy supplies and shift from conventional oil as the strategic energy source. It identifies the leadership challenges ahead and summarizes the lessons learned from interviews with more than 20 energy company CEOs and senior leaders. The structure of the book follows the planning cycle of strategic assessment (Chapters 1-4), strategy development (Chapters 5-7), and strategy implementation (Chapters 8-10) through a leadership perspective focused directly on the energy industry.

Features and benefits:
· This is the first book ever written specifically for current and future leaders in the energy industry that presents in one volume
· The understanding that recent trends are not sustainable, and that enduring energy companies will have to change to respond to new technological and social demands and opportunities
· Insights from recent corporate success stories that have demonstrated sustainable and profitable growth since 2001
· Interviews with CEOs of large energy companies on setting direction, executing strategies and leading their enterprises
· A profile of the energy leader of the future

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher E.H. Ross, Vice President of CRA International Inc., specializes in strategy and organization assignments in the worldwide energy industry, where he has 40 years of experience. He leads CRA's firm-wide natural gas initiative. Based successively in Europe, Africa, and the United States, he has extensive global experience helping international, national and independent oil company clients develop a shared sense of strategic direction, and execute the strategies. He has also led major transformation assignments resulting in massive reductions in costs. Ross has authored many articles providing insight into important changes in the energy business, including virtualization, social responsibility, and the 21st century shift in shareholder value creation from Return On Capital Employed to growth. Formerly, Ross was a Vice President of Arthur D. Little, and prior to that was with British Petroleum Company. He received a BS in Chemistry with Honors from London University and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School. 
Lane E. Sloan has 30 years of experience in the oil and petrochemical industries and held a number of senior leadership positions with Shell Oil, including Vice President Corporate Planning, Chief Financial Officer and President of Shell Chemical Company. He was also Regional Coordinator for all Royal Dutch Shell's operations in the Asia Pacific region and Director of the East Zone in Shell's Global Oil Products business. Today, he teaches corporate strategy and leadership to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the business school and is currently the Chair of the Greater Houston Energy Collaborative under the Greater Houston Partnership. Sloan has written articles for World Energy Magazine and World Energy Monthly Review. He received a BS in Business magna cum laude and an MS in Management Science from the University of Colorado. At the University of Houston, he received an MS in Accountancy and an MBA in Finance.

Review:

Terra Incognita fills a giant gap on our bookshelves. It is filled with important and useful information about the energy industries around the world. Although subtitled A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders, it deserves to find a broad audience beyond the energy industries. As consumers, we all need to understand the vital choices facing those who work to bring us energy; as citizens, we need to think more clearly about public energy policies. This well-written, engaging book will help us to do so.

(Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business)

About this edition

• Publisher: PennWell Corp.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1593701098
• ISBN 13: 9781593701093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 522