An interesting 2004 article by a Shell insider, Paddy Briggs, who worked for Shell for over 37 years, latterly as a Marketing Executive. It is being added to our online searchable archive currently containing over 9,000 articles relating to the Royal Dutch Shell Group.
THE CHANGING FACE OF SHELL
y Paddy Briggs
An insider’s view of the remarkable world of a corporate giant and how it sought to change the way the world perceived.
The same week that I went to the (delayed) “Shell Transport and Trading” Annual General Meeting I also went to see the new Harry Potter film. The movie presents a parallel world of wizardry and spells that operates alongside the “real” world in which most of us live our daily lives. Harry Potter’s world overlaps with the real world from time to time – and many of the elements of his world are very similar to real world elements – but it would be dangerous to draw any comfort from that. No sooner do you think that you are back in familiar surroundings than magic intervenes and your journey returns to one in which the dimensions of space and time work quite differently and where the application of normal logic (cause and effect) has to be suspended. And so it is with Shell.