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YP: Out of the Box, Up the Pole, and Under the Sea - the Value of Diversity in Thought

Sponsored by Decision Strategies, Inc. and the SPEGCS Young Professionals

Tuesday 23-Feb-10 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CST

Speaker: Patrick Leach
Decision Strategies, Inc.

Petroleum Club of Houston, ExxonMobil Bldg, 43 Floor
800 Bell Street
Houston TX 77002
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“Diversity” is commonly cited as a desirable goal on teams and in companies.There is a good reason for this:people with diverse perspectives see different aspects of issues and problems, and tend to generate very different solutions.Sometimes the optimal solution comes from an unexpected source; sometimes the creative conflict that results from the airing of different points of view unearths hybrid strategies that are superior to anything that any individual – or group of similar individuals – would have come up with.This talk covers:

  • two real-life case histories of projects in which bringing in a broad range of backgrounds was critical to solving the problem at hand
  • the antithesis of diverse thought:groupthink.Symptoms of a team in groupthink and the problems that usually result
  • psychological factors that need to be fought in order to achieve real diversity on teams and creativity when working through problems

 

Speaker Patrick Leach

Patrick Leach is a Principal with Decision Strategies, Inc., a leading management consulting firm in the energy industry.Pat has also been an independent consultant and worked for Texaco as a geophysicist, partner & government coordinator, and portfolio manager. He has twenty-nine years of experience in the upstream energy industry, ranging from Sumatra to Aberdeen.Pat is the author of "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number? - An executive's guide to using probabilistic thinking to manage risk and to make better decisions."He has a B. Sci. degree from the University of Rochester and an MBA from the University of Houston Executive Program.

Register by Monday   22-Feb-10 8:30 AM  CST
Seats 100
Reserved 26

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Before 22-Feb-10
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$30.00
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$35.00
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