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What on earth happened under the van der Veer leadership that has got Shell into its present mess?

Paddy Briggs

on May 30th, 2009 at 10:57 am 

Excellent Post by Guest1.

It is indeed “corruption” and the irony is that it got far worse under Jeroen who was meant to be sweeping away the dishonesty and the self-first mindset that characterised the Watts years. I’m genuinely puzzled by this. I knew Jeroen reasonably well and found him a decent bloke – at least back in the late 1990s and into the new millennium. He seemed devoid of ego at that time and was an effective if modest communicator with staff at all levels. He lacked charisma and didn’t strike me as very original or creative – but he didn’t seem a phoney. What on earth happened under the van der Veer leadership that has got Shell into its present mess? Jeroen was paid an order of magnitude more than even quite recent CEOs like Moody-Stuart. He must surely have been aware of the public affront at the Watts/Reserves scandal. And given Jeroen’s Dutch Christian background and his (apparently) personal austerity and principal what went wrong? Anyone who worked for Shell over these years (I didn’t) throw any light on this contradiction?

2009 Blog Postings by Paddy.

Peter Voser’s message to Shell staff presages a gloomy future for all of Shell’s employees and stakeholders., 28 May 2009

Job should go – but so should the rest of Shell’s motley crew, 26 May 2009

The current Shell leadership – “mediocrity is the best they can achieve”, 10 Apr 2009

GREENWASH – The drama and the reality, 02 Apr 2009

Shell and the shocking bonfire of its vanities, 28 Mar 2009

The scandal of the grotesque rewards that accrue to failed executives, 27 Feb 2009

Time for cost-cutting at Shell – again! 15 Jan 2009

How will Shell respond to the threat of an ExxonMobil takeover? 05 Jan 2009

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