Author: Adam Young

Continuing to pull on the consistency thread, after Marcus Canady, the author of the book “Intrusive Leadership”,spoke to our team, I was motivated to write this message: The consistency piece is true in many...

Abraham Maslow illuminated his concept of self-actualization by saying, “what one can be, one must be.” One of my favorite coaches, Brian Johnson, who also embraces this concept of our desire to self-actualize, talks...

In Ready, aim, fire (post #10 ) and The Guardian (post #11), I shared with you the commitment to the process, not the outcome, that we worked to foster in our helicopter aircrews –...

“The Guardian” (a movie about our profession) was out for years before I watched it. When I did, I had been doing helicopter rescue work for a while. After peeling away the drama and...

I wrote to my team because I hoped that the guidance and discussion offered them something useful. That said, I also wrote because I needed the reflection for my own development. One of the...

Let’s dig a little deeper into that word “grit.” Angela Duckworth, an accomplished researcher and psychologist whose life mission is studying grit and character education, has determined that there are four things we need...

As a work in progress, focusing on the components below have helped me stay “on glide slope” or get back “on course,” effectively helping to close the gap after a deviation. I hope this...

In “The process” (post #6), I shared the words I wrote to my team: “We need calm, present, and confident aviators making critical, onscene decisions.” Easier said than done.  I was fully committed to...

After two back-to-back difficult rescue cases that had mixed outcomes (in extreme rescue environments, often you can save some, but not all), our helicopter aircrews’ made challenging decisions onscene in a rapidly changing, dynamic...

In the last post, we discussed recognizing the appearance of potential selfish motives (“not whys”) and then averting any negative consequences they invoke by refocusing our efforts towards OPI. By acknowledging and subsequently changing...