Posts Tagged ‘big picture’
Are You A Group Or A Team?
One of the most valuable mindsets that aviation trains for is known as maintaining The Big Picture. This means maintaining full perspective on everything that’s happening around us, how it fits together, and how all the moving parts may affect each other and our progress. This situational awareness comes from cultivating an overlap of knowledge…
Read MoreWhat Bush Flying Taught Me About Life And 2020
The bush flying part of my aviation career was some of the most valuable flying and life experience I’ve ever had. At 19, I didn’t have a hell of a lot of life experience to build on and being sent off to the far reaches of Zimbabwe with the C206 I’d been allocated seemed like…
Read More#4 The Challenges of Leadership – Leading A Team
In our 6-part series on the 6 Common Challenges of Leadership, based on a white paper by William A. Gentry, Regina H. Eckert, Sarah A. Stawiski, and Sophia Zhao, our 4th challenge is Leading a Team. So far, we’ve looked at Developing Managerial Effectiveness, Inspiring Others, and Developing Employees – all of which play their…
Read MoreLeadership Through Uncertainty
We’ve had an interesting week in Zimbabwe with fiscal policies announced that have far reaching implications as well as short term fall out. It’s been hard to deal with the immediate chaos, let alone assess what it may mean for our businesses and families over the next few months. Coupled with fuel queues, the temperature…
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