Know Your REAL Enemy

Don’t make shelling personal. Last post, we spent some time looking at likely candidates for the sobriquet ‘enemy’, only to determine that they are not, in fact our enemy. I ended the post with an encouragement to soldier past the hurdles in communication by recognizing each one as an opportunity instead of an enemy. If […]

Know Your Enemy

“You just have to learn that shelling isn’t personal….” More than a decade ago I was having a conversation with a grizzled veteran of oil exploration and production in Africa. We were discussing unusual safety risks when he mentioned his company’s experience with storing of crude oil in tank farms. They were operating in a […]