The Times: Pumping jargon but not profits
“…there is even a new mantra, Enterprise First, with which to goad the staff into “top-quartile performance”.”
By Carl Mortished
Posted 24 September 2004
“WE WILL strive to make Shell a different company,” Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s chairman told the City yesterday. He promised better leadership, more accountability and teamwork and there is even a new mantra, Enterprise First, with which to goad the staff into “top-quartile performance”.
Little was said about how the hole revealed in January is to be filled. The biggest offender in the reserves debacle was Nigeria but precious little was said yesterday about how those barrels are to be recovered.
Shell may be right about the high oil price. But there was a time when Shell was respected for being predictable, even dull. Instead of the navel-gazing Enterprise First, investors have suggested that the oil giant’s new catchphrase should be: “dividends first”.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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