Terra Incognita ― A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders

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

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.