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Join Kaufman Global’s Vice President of Business Development Michael Plagemen at the IADC / SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition being held in San Diego on March 6-8, 2012. Recognized as the premier drilling event of the E&P industry, the conference will bring together approximately 1,600 professionals from …Read More >

When I was young, around 12-years-old, I went to summer camp for a couple of weeks each year. It was an overnight camp with a lake, a lodge, campfires—basically everything. We were separated into cabins of 8 or so campers. Each cabin had an identity based on a classic North …Read More >

Good Intent Unintentionally Sabotaged – Have you observed this in your organization? Each year the Leadership Team goes through a planning process. With good intention, they launch a number of initiatives to achieve stretch goals. Work begins with great enthusiasm but soon becomes mired down. Reality hits, priorities are diluted …Read More >

Metrics are such an important element of continuous improvement. Wait…Metrics might be the most important element of continuous improvement. Why? Because continuous improvement by definition is the measurement of improvement — and if you aren’t measuring, how will the organization know how far it has come or where it needs …Read More >

Peter Drucker said, “Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.”

For anyone that has tried or is trying to change the culture inside their company, this certainly has a ring of familiarity to it. Company cultures are difficult to …Read More >