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Welcome to the season of change.  You know, the last couple of months of the year when companies resolve to stop doing whatever they were doing that did not work and move on.  This may mean you are declared "redundant" (something that has happened to a good colleague of mine already here at the beginning of the season) or it may mean you will have a new boss or new owners.  Your future career opportunities, at least for the next few years, will be determined by how you act in the first week of this new experience, whatever it may be for you.

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Our industry, and other heavy industries have done dismal job of keeping the public informed of what we do, how we do it, and the benefits to society. The reality today is that the pulp and paper industry is tightly regulated, closely watched, and by and large a good citizen. 

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Here in the United States, a storm hit the northeastern corner of the country last week, Hurricane Sandy.  It is quite obvious the general population and the civilian support services (fire, police and so forth) were not at all prepared for a storm of this severity. I have seen the same result in pulp and paper mills...

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