CLOSE THE GAP
I am repeating myself intentionally. Our work provides us with plenty of challenges – government shutdowns, COVID, budget woes, asset sourcing difficulties, family moves, etc. Each member is also tested, individually, due to unique...
Most of the time, the aviators I was charged to lead actually showed me the way. They didn’t need to hear me preach, but as I have mentioned before, OPI was as much for...
Other pilots have heard me say, you can be a 1000-hour pilot, or you can fly the same hour 1000 times… I wrote to the team: My goal was to support them in becoming...
To operate from a position of integrity we must have discipline to optimize our finite resources (in this case time, energy, focus). Brian Johnson equation review… (time x energy x focus x “what is...
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...