April 7, 2025 • 14 mins
What Wild Things Can You Do to Build a Dominant Energy Team?
Find out in Episode 109 of The Energy Detox, which uses local, statewide, national, and global headlines connected to Washington County's #NaturalGas industry to help you answer the following questions:
1 - How can you use the recent renaming of Wild Things Park to EQT Park as an excuse to consider what you want people to think of when they see or hear YOUR name?
2 - On the heels of last year's Cecil Township setback ordinance (and de facto ban on future natural gas development) and tomorrow's presentation of a statewide setback rule (frac ban) to the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) in Harrisburg, what better time than now to ask how often you're unwittingly fueling harmful ideas that might SEEM benign at the surface?
3 - How does last week's visit to Washington County by Doug Burgum, Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council, and the comments he shared alongside leaders of Range Resources, EQT Corporation, Halliburton, and AXPC inspire you to not merely strive to lead a "winning" team, but instead to set your targets on a far more inspiring goal of achieving world-renowned, best-in-class, DOMINANT results?
4 - And speaking of results, how does last month's announced formation of the Energy Corps by Scott Tinker and Toby Rice—who reminded attendees during Sec. Burgum's visit that the development of the world-renowned Marcellus Shale began in Washington County 20 years ago—challenge you to focus on metrics that actually matter ((like lifting every human in the world up to 50 MWh and $50,000 per year in 50 years) and that can lead to some truly wild things (like eradicating energy poverty and saving the lives of 3+ million people who die each year from indoor air pollution) instead of wasting time, #energy, and money chasing fluffy, intangible metrics with minimal impact on your stakeholders?
For more info about the above news items, and for more ways to watch and listen to this episode of 'The Energy Detox' podcast: https://www.wittingpartners.com/the-energy-detox/energy-leadership-dominance
If you are a PA resident, use this link TODAY to make your voice known on proposed setback rules: https://marcelluscoalition.org/united-shale-advocates/take-action/natural-gas-setbacks-campaign/
To learn about the countless ways Washington County is leveraging its natural resources, check out the @WashCo Chamber website: https://www.washcochamber.com/
And for details about differentiated, Marcellus-based, energy-focused #leadership coaching, visit oilandgascoaching.com
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(00:00):
Hello and welcome to The EnergyDetox coming to you today from
outside EQT Park in WashingtonCounty, Pennsylvania. And the
reason that I, Joe Sinnott, yourhost, am standing outside the
home of the Washington WildThings today is because
Washington County is connectedto various energy related
headlines that cover local newsto statewide news to national
(00:22):
news to global news.
And all of those headlines don'tjust come back to Washington
County, but come back to you asa leader in the energy industry.
So as we always do here on TheEnergy Detox, we're going to
connect those headlines to youso that you can become a more
effective leader. And before wedive into all the details of
those headlines and theconnections to you, I'm going to
(00:43):
step through quickly what thoseheadlines are, starting with the
news a couple weeks ago that thehome of the Washington Wild
Things is now called EQT Park.
And moving beyond that localnews, the statewide news that
we're going to reference todayis a conversation tomorrow in
Harrisburg about setbacks. Thatis the distance between activity
on a well pad at the well sitesthemselves and other structures
(01:07):
where people live, go to school,work, etc. The more national
news that are going to beconnected to this episode is the
fact that Governor, or formergovernor, Doug Burgum of North
Dakota, who is now the interiorsecretary for the United States,
and also a member of the UnitedStates is Energy Dominance
Council. Well, he visitedWashington County a couple days
(01:30):
ago. And so we'll talk aboutthat, and again, some of the
things he said that can help youask better questions as a
leader. And finally, we're goingto dive into some global news
that is the energy coreinitiative that was announced by
Toby Rice, president of EQT, andDr Scott Tinker, just a couple
of weeks ago.
(01:50):
So that being said, let's comeback to this EQT Park news. As I
said, couple weeks ago, it wasannounced that this ballpark for
at least the next three yearswill be known as EQT Park, which
calls to mind the question of,well, why do companies like EQT
invest time and energy and, ofcourse, money to put their names
on things? Well, it's prettystraightforward. You want
positive name recognition thatworks in any industry, because
(02:14):
when people hear EQT, well,there's certain things you want
to come to mind. And while manypeople might hear you Qt and
have lots of different thoughts.
Whether it's the activity here,the fact that they used to be
the biggest natural gas producerUnited States, maybe it's the
jobs that they produce. Well,why not also have individuals or
families that come to a ballparklike this to watch the
Washington wild things and theindependent pioneer league to
(02:35):
enjoy an evening for areasonable price? Why not also
associate that with a bigcommunity partner like EQT?
Well, again, we can talk forhours about the types of things
that EQT does in the community.
We could talk about the thingsthat other natural gas companies
here in the area do, like RangeResources and their annual 2000
turkeys campaign that hasdelivered, I don't know how many
(02:57):
hundreds of thousands of poundsof turkeys to the area, or CNX
resources and their MentorshipAcademy, which positively
impacts high school students inthe area. But again, that's not
the point today. The point todayis to ask you, well, what name
recognition do you want to havewhen people hear your name or
see your name? Well, what do youwant them to think and again, I
(03:17):
you know, we've covered this onthe energy detox before, and one
of the rebuttals is, well, Joe,I don't really care what people
think. You know, I'm hearted,you know, I'm going to do the
right thing no matter what. Butagain, that's very short sighted
approach, especially if you're aleader, because if you're not
conscious of what people thinkof when they hear you or your
team or your company's name,well, again, there's a very good
opportunity that you know mightbe missed.
(03:39):
Case in point here, you know,certainly the local operators
will speak of their you knowtheir license to operate, right?
Well, again, without thatlicense to operate, without that
name recognition, without thatpositive sense of what these
companies do, it's only going tobe more difficult for them to
operate in this area. So to youas an as an individual, right,
leading a team? How much moredifficult is it when people hear
(04:02):
your name or hear your team'sname and don't have that
positive association that,again, you would want them to
have? So again, take the timetoday to ask yourself, well,
what do you want people to sayabout you and your team? What
are they currently saying aboutyou and your team? And most
importantly, what actions canyou take to help again, form
those positive associations thatcould be valuable to you, much
like EQT made an investment, andits peer companies make
(04:25):
investments to form thosepositive associations. And as
one final note on this topic,this headline, I'm not just
talking about existing leadersand organizations. I'm talking
also about people in careertransition, because I see this
all the time as a coach ofpeople in career transition who
have stellar resumes, stellarbackgrounds, but they can't
articulate that message in ashort, punchy way, and they
(04:47):
can't, quite frankly, answerwhat they want other people to
say about them when they heartheir name, or, more
importantly, what they wanttheir colleagues, what they want
people in their network to sayabout them in a very short,
impactful. Whole effectivemanner if somebody says, Hey,
tell me a bit about Joe or Sallyor John or whatever. So again,
your homework today is, what doyou want people to say about
(05:08):
you, and what actions can youtake to make sure that they're
actually saying those thingsthat you want them to.
That being said, let's move onto that second headline, that
statewide headline, and that hasto do with setbacks, because
coming up here tomorrow, as Ispeak so tomorrow, April 8 in
Harrisburg, the EnvironmentalQuality Board, the EqB, will
(05:29):
always are poised to hear someconversation about proposed
setback rules that are ratherextreme, setback rules that
would limit the development ofnatural gas to areas that are no
closer than 3000 to roughly 5000feet, so upwards of a mile
setback distance, compared towhat is now pretty standard of
(05:50):
500 foot setback distance. Andwithout getting into the details
of why that is and what theintentions are, let's talk about
what the impacts of thisproposal would be, well, the
impacts of expanding setbackdistances to upwards of a mile
would mean upwards of 99% ofland mass in some counties here
(06:11):
in Pennsylvania being off limitsto the development of natural
gas. And again, regardless ofwhat your opinion is of natural
gas, that's quite the impact.
But obviously, that's not whatthe proponents of this increase
in setbacks are touting, right?
They're touting things thatsound relatively benign,
relatively positive, right? Hey,for the health and the safety
(06:32):
and well being of people thatare in areas of natural gas
development, why not look atexpanding setbacks again? It
sounds relatively innocent untilyou ask the very simple
question, well, what are theimpacts of doing this? And when
you uncover that this isessentially a ban on natural gas
development for much of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania,
well, now you kind of get intosome other questions that really
(06:54):
should be raised and reallyshould be focused on by the
people that are potentiallymaking decisions that being
potentially the legislature inPennsylvania, or perhaps more
dangerously, unelected officialsin say, departments like the DEP
who may be able to implementdraconian setback rules by
regulation. Now, again, withoutgetting into the details, what
(07:15):
does this have to do with you?
Well, how often does somebodybring to you some idea that
sounds good, that seems almostpositive, if not benign. And so
you give it some credence, yougive it some oxygen, if you
will. You say, yeah, go aheadand run with this. Yeah. Let's
see what happens. Because again,on its surface, that's not a bad
default as a leader, right? As aleader, we're told not to say
no, right? You want to encouragethought and creativity. You want
(07:37):
people to bring you ideas. Andthat's all well and good, but
it's also important as a leader,to ask crisp, clear questions
that could help uncover thingsthat maybe other stakeholders
aren't even seeing. And thatsimple question in this case,
is, well, so what? What are theimplications? Tell me more about
this. What happens if thissetback proposal were to take
root? And by asking that simplequestion. Again, if you're
(08:00):
getting honest or at least semihonest answers, you'll uncover
that, in essence, it is a fracban. And so again, coming back
to you, how often do you findyourself unwittingly fueling
ideas that really are going tolead nowhere or potentially lead
to harm because they seeminnocent and because you simply
want people to run with it? Howoften are you unwittingly
allowing people to waste time,energy resources on things that,
(08:22):
again, are essentially a deadend, even if they work out as
intended? That's the question.
And what's nice about that isyou don't have to get into the
intentions of the parties. Youdon't have to ask whether the
intentions of the peoplepromoting these setback rules
are positive or negative, or ifthey're truly all about the
health and safety of theconstituents of Pennsylvania, or
(08:43):
if their intentions are to bannatural gas activity. It doesn't
matter if you're asking theright question, which is, well,
tell me what the results aregoing to be. So that's the
challenge for you. In what wayscan you better ask those
questions up front to save time,energy and money in the long
run?
Moving from that statewideheadline to a national headline,
(09:04):
and again, that is related tothe visit that the interior
secretary of the United States,Doug Burgum, paid here to
Washington County just a coupleof days ago. And during that
visit, again, we'll spare youeverything that he shared and
saw. You can read about allthat. You can actually watch his
remarks. They're all public andout there. But most
significantly it's the fact thathe's not just the Secretary of
(09:25):
the Interior. He also sits onthe energy dominance Council.
And again, I'll ask you, well,what do you think of when you
hear dominance? Well, you thinkabout something that's a level
above simply being secure,winning right domination. That's
really gets people, you know,kind of saying, Hey, this is
(09:46):
something different, right? Youthink about it. From a baseball
standpoint, people don't justwant to have a couple wins.
Heck, even the pirates, who playabout 25 miles up the road from
where I'm standing, you know,they can amass a couple wins.
They they beat the the dominant,the mighty Yankees yesterday,
dramatic, fast. Position. Maybein the next couple years, the
pirates will have a winningseason, but they will continue
to be far from dominant. Mostlikely no people want dominant.
(10:07):
That's what players want. That'swhat fans want, and that's what
your team wants. They wantdomination. And again, I say
this because I hear all kinds ofvery positive and, you know,
potentially valuable languageabout developing winning teams.
Yeah, that's all well and good,but how often do you as a leader
talk about best in class orworld class or dominant or best
(10:30):
of the best? All of thatlanguage? Again, it might seem
like semantics and nuance, butit's a big difference. If you're
the one saying, hey, how do webecome Best of the Best, or even
you as an individual, how do youbecome best of the best? You
know, I say this as a coach,recognizing that there's
millions of leadership coachesout there, gurus and podcast
hosts and everything else. No,my goal is to be the best of the
(10:51):
best. When it comes to oil andgas coaching, it's very simple.
And if I didn't have thatmantra, well, how you know what
is going to be reflected for thepeople that I work with? Right?
Do they want to bring onsomebody that's sort of
mediocre, just going to havemediocre, ho hum, fine results?
Well, no, at least I hope not.
Those aren't the people that Iwant to work with. I want to
work with people who aredominant. So the question for
you is, how can you shift yourlanguage and, of course, your
(11:12):
actions in such a way thatyou're shooting for dominance
and not just having a couple ofwins.
That being said, and moving onto the importance of talking
about being a world class team.
Well, let's talk about thatglobal that final headline that
I promised here, and that is theannouncement from eqts Toby Rice
(11:32):
and Dr Scott Tinker, the founderof the switch Energy Alliance,
about a new initiative calledenergy core. And the idea behind
energy core is like otherinitiatives to eliminate energy
poverty and lift up many of the8 billion people around the
world who don't have access toenergy and all of the many perks
(11:53):
that come with havingaffordable, reliable, plentiful
energy. But again, they're goingabove and beyond that kind of
keeping with this dominancetheme, you know, in their words,
not just about ending energypoverty, but moving to a point
of wealth, of true success, ofhaving that long term
generational access to resourcesthat can help fuel entire
(12:15):
countries. And well, how arethey going to do that? And
what's the point of this when itcomes to you? Well, it's the
fact that they're honing in onmetrics that actually matter. So
again, while there's all kindsof nice sounding, well
intentioned initiatives andorganizations out there that are
doing great work, how many ofthem have a simple, Measurable,
Actionable framework like theseenergy core folks do, because
(12:38):
their framework, and again, itmight sound a little bit of a
slogan, but it's revolvingaround this idea of 50, 50, 50.
In 50 years, getting the worldto a point where your average
person has access, or at leastis impacted, by 50 megawatts of
electricity, energy per year, 50megawatts per excuse me, per
(13:01):
individual per year, and alsobeing connected per year per
capita to $50,000 of GDP. Again,two very simple numbers, 50,000
US dollars in GDP per capita peryear, and 50 megawatts of
electricity, very simplemetrics. And the reason I bring
(13:24):
that up today is because so manyindividual leaders and companies
focus on all kinds of differentmetrics that, again, sound good,
but do they really impact whatpeople's bottom lines are? Do
they really speak to whatstakeholders want? Because
certainly when it comes toenergy, I'll channel the words
of Doug Burgum, and he said thatthe value of the kilowatt hour,
he said, is more valuable thanit's ever been before. And it's
(13:44):
true, because that kilowatt hourtranslates into wealth and well
being, and again, not justfinancial wealth, but education
and health and everything elsethat is negatively impacting the
3 million plus people per yearwho die of indoor air pollution
because they're stuck burningwood and dung and everything
else. But again, I'm not goingto go down that path here in the
interest of time, but I am goingto simply remind you to ask
(14:06):
yourself, as we often do here,on the energy detox, are you
focusing on that metrics thatmatter? Are you focusing on
things like, again, winningchampionships in World Series
instead of the occasional win orthe occasional player who,
again, attracts a couplethousand extra fans per game
than you would otherwise, focuson metrics that matter instead
of fluff, and again, you willfind yourself in a much better
(14:27):
position, and your team willfind itself in a much better
position.
And so with that, I want toclose with two words that Doug
Burgum opened with and closedwith during his remarks in
Washington County, and that is,thank you. In his words, the
energy industry hasn't heardquite enough of those two words
here over the last four years.
So thank you for being a part ofthe energy industry, if you are,
and either way, thank you forbeing a part of the energy
(14:49):
detox. And I hope you join usagain here next time. So thanks
again, and take care.
Hello and welcome to The EnergyDetox coming to you today from
outside EQT Park in WashingtonCounty, Pennsylvania. And the
reason that I, Joe Sinnott, yourhost, am standing outside the
home of the Washington WildThings today is because
Washington County is connectedto various energy related
headlines that cover local newsto statewide news to national
(00:22):
news to global news.
And all of those headlines don'tjust come back to Washington
County, but come back to you asa leader in the energy industry.
So as we always do here on TheEnergy Detox, we're going to
connect those headlines to youso that you can become a more
effective leader. And before wedive into all the details of
those headlines and theconnections to you, I'm going to
(00:43):
step through quickly what thoseheadlines are, starting with the
news a couple weeks ago that thehome of the Washington Wild
Things is now called EQT Park.
And moving beyond that localnews, the statewide news that
we're going to reference todayis a conversation tomorrow in
Harrisburg about setbacks. Thatis the distance between activity
on a well pad at the well sitesthemselves and other structures
(01:07):
where people live, go to school,work, etc. The more national
news that are going to beconnected to this episode is the
fact that Governor, or formergovernor, Doug Burgum of North
Dakota, who is now the interiorsecretary for the United States,
and also a member of the UnitedStates is Energy Dominance
Council. Well, he visitedWashington County a couple days
(01:30):
ago. And so we'll talk aboutthat, and again, some of the
things he said that can help youask better questions as a
leader. And finally, we're goingto dive into some global news
that is the energy coreinitiative that was announced by
Toby Rice, president of EQT, andDr Scott Tinker, just a couple
of weeks ago.
(01:50):
So that being said, let's comeback to this EQT Park news. As I
said, couple weeks ago, it wasannounced that this ballpark for
at least the next three yearswill be known as EQT Park, which
calls to mind the question of,well, why do companies like EQT
invest time and energy and, ofcourse, money to put their names
on things? Well, it's prettystraightforward. You want
positive name recognition thatworks in any industry, because
(02:14):
when people hear EQT, well,there's certain things you want
to come to mind. And while manypeople might hear you Qt and
have lots of different thoughts.
Whether it's the activity here,the fact that they used to be
the biggest natural gas producerUnited States, maybe it's the
jobs that they produce. Well,why not also have individuals or
families that come to a ballparklike this to watch the
Washington wild things and theindependent pioneer league to
(02:35):
enjoy an evening for areasonable price? Why not also
associate that with a bigcommunity partner like EQT?
Well, again, we can talk forhours about the types of things
that EQT does in the community.
We could talk about the thingsthat other natural gas companies
here in the area do, like RangeResources and their annual 2000
turkeys campaign that hasdelivered, I don't know how many
(02:57):
hundreds of thousands of poundsof turkeys to the area, or CNX
resources and their MentorshipAcademy, which positively
impacts high school students inthe area. But again, that's not
the point today. The point todayis to ask you, well, what name
recognition do you want to havewhen people hear your name or
see your name? Well, what do youwant them to think and again, I
(03:17):
you know, we've covered this onthe energy detox before, and one
of the rebuttals is, well, Joe,I don't really care what people
think. You know, I'm hearted,you know, I'm going to do the
right thing no matter what. Butagain, that's very short sighted
approach, especially if you're aleader, because if you're not
conscious of what people thinkof when they hear you or your
team or your company's name,well, again, there's a very good
opportunity that you know mightbe missed.
(03:39):
Case in point here, you know,certainly the local operators
will speak of their you knowtheir license to operate, right?
Well, again, without thatlicense to operate, without that
name recognition, without thatpositive sense of what these
companies do, it's only going tobe more difficult for them to
operate in this area. So to youas an as an individual, right,
leading a team? How much moredifficult is it when people hear
(04:02):
your name or hear your team'sname and don't have that
positive association that,again, you would want them to
have? So again, take the timetoday to ask yourself, well,
what do you want people to sayabout you and your team? What
are they currently saying aboutyou and your team? And most
importantly, what actions canyou take to help again, form
those positive associations thatcould be valuable to you, much
like EQT made an investment, andits peer companies make
(04:25):
investments to form thosepositive associations. And as
one final note on this topic,this headline, I'm not just
talking about existing leadersand organizations. I'm talking
also about people in careertransition, because I see this
all the time as a coach ofpeople in career transition who
have stellar resumes, stellarbackgrounds, but they can't
articulate that message in ashort, punchy way, and they
(04:47):
can't, quite frankly, answerwhat they want other people to
say about them when they heartheir name, or, more
importantly, what they wanttheir colleagues, what they want
people in their network to sayabout them in a very short,
impactful. Whole effectivemanner if somebody says, Hey,
tell me a bit about Joe or Sallyor John or whatever. So again,
your homework today is, what doyou want people to say about
(05:08):
you, and what actions can youtake to make sure that they're
actually saying those thingsthat you want them to.
That being said, let's move onto that second headline, that
statewide headline, and that hasto do with setbacks, because
coming up here tomorrow, as Ispeak so tomorrow, April 8 in
Harrisburg, the EnvironmentalQuality Board, the EqB, will
(05:29):
always are poised to hear someconversation about proposed
setback rules that are ratherextreme, setback rules that
would limit the development ofnatural gas to areas that are no
closer than 3000 to roughly 5000feet, so upwards of a mile
setback distance, compared towhat is now pretty standard of
(05:50):
500 foot setback distance. Andwithout getting into the details
of why that is and what theintentions are, let's talk about
what the impacts of thisproposal would be, well, the
impacts of expanding setbackdistances to upwards of a mile
would mean upwards of 99% ofland mass in some counties here
(06:11):
in Pennsylvania being off limitsto the development of natural
gas. And again, regardless ofwhat your opinion is of natural
gas, that's quite the impact.
But obviously, that's not whatthe proponents of this increase
in setbacks are touting, right?
They're touting things thatsound relatively benign,
relatively positive, right? Hey,for the health and the safety
(06:32):
and well being of people thatare in areas of natural gas
development, why not look atexpanding setbacks again? It
sounds relatively innocent untilyou ask the very simple
question, well, what are theimpacts of doing this? And when
you uncover that this isessentially a ban on natural gas
development for much of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania,
well, now you kind of get intosome other questions that really
(06:54):
should be raised and reallyshould be focused on by the
people that are potentiallymaking decisions that being
potentially the legislature inPennsylvania, or perhaps more
dangerously, unelected officialsin say, departments like the DEP
who may be able to implementdraconian setback rules by
regulation. Now, again, withoutgetting into the details, what
(07:15):
does this have to do with you?
Well, how often does somebodybring to you some idea that
sounds good, that seems almostpositive, if not benign. And so
you give it some credence, yougive it some oxygen, if you
will. You say, yeah, go aheadand run with this. Yeah. Let's
see what happens. Because again,on its surface, that's not a bad
default as a leader, right? As aleader, we're told not to say
no, right? You want to encouragethought and creativity. You want
(07:37):
people to bring you ideas. Andthat's all well and good, but
it's also important as a leader,to ask crisp, clear questions
that could help uncover thingsthat maybe other stakeholders
aren't even seeing. And thatsimple question in this case,
is, well, so what? What are theimplications? Tell me more about
this. What happens if thissetback proposal were to take
root? And by asking that simplequestion. Again, if you're
(08:00):
getting honest or at least semihonest answers, you'll uncover
that, in essence, it is a fracban. And so again, coming back
to you, how often do you findyourself unwittingly fueling
ideas that really are going tolead nowhere or potentially lead
to harm because they seeminnocent and because you simply
want people to run with it? Howoften are you unwittingly
allowing people to waste time,energy resources on things that,
(08:22):
again, are essentially a deadend, even if they work out as
intended? That's the question.
And what's nice about that isyou don't have to get into the
intentions of the parties. Youdon't have to ask whether the
intentions of the peoplepromoting these setback rules
are positive or negative, or ifthey're truly all about the
health and safety of theconstituents of Pennsylvania, or
(08:43):
if their intentions are to bannatural gas activity. It doesn't
matter if you're asking theright question, which is, well,
tell me what the results aregoing to be. So that's the
challenge for you. In what wayscan you better ask those
questions up front to save time,energy and money in the long
run?
Moving from that statewideheadline to a national headline,
(09:04):
and again, that is related tothe visit that the interior
secretary of the United States,Doug Burgum, paid here to
Washington County just a coupleof days ago. And during that
visit, again, we'll spare youeverything that he shared and
saw. You can read about allthat. You can actually watch his
remarks. They're all public andout there. But most
significantly it's the fact thathe's not just the Secretary of
(09:25):
the Interior. He also sits onthe energy dominance Council.
And again, I'll ask you, well,what do you think of when you
hear dominance? Well, you thinkabout something that's a level
above simply being secure,winning right domination. That's
really gets people, you know,kind of saying, Hey, this is
(09:46):
something different, right? Youthink about it. From a baseball
standpoint, people don't justwant to have a couple wins.
Heck, even the pirates, who playabout 25 miles up the road from
where I'm standing, you know,they can amass a couple wins.
They they beat the the dominant,the mighty Yankees yesterday,
dramatic, fast. Position. Maybein the next couple years, the
pirates will have a winningseason, but they will continue
to be far from dominant. Mostlikely no people want dominant.
(10:07):
That's what players want. That'swhat fans want, and that's what
your team wants. They wantdomination. And again, I say
this because I hear all kinds ofvery positive and, you know,
potentially valuable languageabout developing winning teams.
Yeah, that's all well and good,but how often do you as a leader
talk about best in class orworld class or dominant or best
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of the best? All of thatlanguage? Again, it might seem
like semantics and nuance, butit's a big difference. If you're
the one saying, hey, how do webecome Best of the Best, or even
you as an individual, how do youbecome best of the best? You
know, I say this as a coach,recognizing that there's
millions of leadership coachesout there, gurus and podcast
hosts and everything else. No,my goal is to be the best of the
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best. When it comes to oil andgas coaching, it's very simple.
And if I didn't have thatmantra, well, how you know what
is going to be reflected for thepeople that I work with? Right?
Do they want to bring onsomebody that's sort of
mediocre, just going to havemediocre, ho hum, fine results?
Well, no, at least I hope not.
Those aren't the people that Iwant to work with. I want to
work with people who aredominant. So the question for
you is, how can you shift yourlanguage and, of course, your
(11:12):
actions in such a way thatyou're shooting for dominance
and not just having a couple ofwins.
That being said, and moving onto the importance of talking
about being a world class team.
Well, let's talk about thatglobal that final headline that
I promised here, and that is theannouncement from eqts Toby Rice
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and Dr Scott Tinker, the founderof the switch Energy Alliance,
about a new initiative calledenergy core. And the idea behind
energy core is like otherinitiatives to eliminate energy
poverty and lift up many of the8 billion people around the
world who don't have access toenergy and all of the many perks
(11:53):
that come with havingaffordable, reliable, plentiful
energy. But again, they're goingabove and beyond that kind of
keeping with this dominancetheme, you know, in their words,
not just about ending energypoverty, but moving to a point
of wealth, of true success, ofhaving that long term
generational access to resourcesthat can help fuel entire
(12:15):
countries. And well, how arethey going to do that? And
what's the point of this when itcomes to you? Well, it's the
fact that they're honing in onmetrics that actually matter. So
again, while there's all kindsof nice sounding, well
intentioned initiatives andorganizations out there that are
doing great work, how many ofthem have a simple, Measurable,
Actionable framework like theseenergy core folks do, because
(12:38):
their framework, and again, itmight sound a little bit of a
slogan, but it's revolvingaround this idea of 50, 50, 50.
In 50 years, getting the worldto a point where your average
person has access, or at leastis impacted, by 50 megawatts of
electricity, energy per year, 50megawatts per excuse me, per
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individual per year, and alsobeing connected per year per
capita to $50,000 of GDP. Again,two very simple numbers, 50,000
US dollars in GDP per capita peryear, and 50 megawatts of
electricity, very simplemetrics. And the reason I bring
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that up today is because so manyindividual leaders and companies
focus on all kinds of differentmetrics that, again, sound good,
but do they really impact whatpeople's bottom lines are? Do
they really speak to whatstakeholders want? Because
certainly when it comes toenergy, I'll channel the words
of Doug Burgum, and he said thatthe value of the kilowatt hour,
he said, is more valuable thanit's ever been before. And it's
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true, because that kilowatt hourtranslates into wealth and well
being, and again, not justfinancial wealth, but education
and health and everything elsethat is negatively impacting the
3 million plus people per yearwho die of indoor air pollution
because they're stuck burningwood and dung and everything
else. But again, I'm not goingto go down that path here in the
interest of time, but I am goingto simply remind you to ask
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yourself, as we often do here,on the energy detox, are you
focusing on that metrics thatmatter? Are you focusing on
things like, again, winningchampionships in World Series
instead of the occasional win orthe occasional player who,
again, attracts a couplethousand extra fans per game
than you would otherwise, focuson metrics that matter instead
of fluff, and again, you willfind yourself in a much better
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position, and your team willfind itself in a much better
position.
And so with that, I want toclose with two words that Doug
Burgum opened with and closedwith during his remarks in
Washington County, and that is,thank you. In his words, the
energy industry hasn't heardquite enough of those two words
here over the last four years.
So thank you for being a part ofthe energy industry, if you are,
and either way, thank you forbeing a part of the energy
(14:49):
detox. And I hope you join usagain here next time. So thanks
again, and take care.
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