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When I was in college, I had a roommate who was determined to get into The Guinness Book of World Records for eating a bicycle. Every night when we returned from studying in the library, we would all sit in front of the TV and watch M*A*S*H. He would take a file and grind himself a teaspoon of bicycle. Then he would place his bicycle “grounds” in his hot cereal the next morning ....

A great Fleetwood Mac song and lyric, an even better strategic leadership concept.  The new year is on the horizon. Still, there is much terrain to cover in the current year. Melding the future-state vision with tasks of today is the strategic leader’s responsibility ...  

Our capacity for learning is becoming the currency we trade on in our careers. Where we once went to work to learn to do a job, learning now is the job. Adaptive and proactive learners are highly prized assets for organizations, and when we invest in our learning, we create long-term dividends for our career development ...

Amplify your culture with real conversations, delivered in a personal way.  For a lot of companies, Q1 is a flurry of annual performance reviews, goal setting and strategic planning. Leaders preside over meetings that evaluate employee results and potential as well as succession plans and turnover rates ...

By design or by chance, the paths that people have taken to a career in business aviation are diverse, and no one way is the right way. The stories of the four young people profiled here demonstrate just a few of the many different paths that can lead to a career in the industry ...

Smaller operators need to tailor proactive safety efforts to their unique needs. It might be tempting to lump business aviation safety programs all together (“safety is safety”). However, in reality, there are some significant differences between large and small operators when it comes to promoting and implementing a robust safety culture ...

Accommodating the needs of caregivers by having flexible personnel policies is a win-win for both employees and employers.  The pandemic’s impact on the work environment has intensified calls for a fundamental revision of certain longstanding deficiencies in the relationship between employers and employees ...

The pandemic has employees rethinking their career priorities, which is making it harder for companies to hold onto workers. Industry concerns about retaining talent in the pre-COVID world have only grown more problematic, as the pandemic has spurred many employees, including business aviation professionals, to reconsider their career goals ...

David Keys remembers sitting at a large table at NBAA headquarters with several others on the Domestic Operations Committee, going through papers and manually matching some volunteer mentors with possible mentees for the launch of NBAA’s Mentoring Program just four years ago ...

Michael Graham became a member of NTSB on Jan. 3, 2020. Earlier, he was with Textron Aviation from 1997 to 2019. From 2012 he served as the company’s director of flight operations safety, security and standardization. His responsibilities included managing the flight operation’s SMS, the emergency response plan and supervising air safety investigations ...

A culture of safety should be the foundation of all business aviation operations. That extends to ensuring an operational environment that not only works to prevent accidents or incidents, but one that is also well-versed in company practice and response in the event of a mishap ...

Business aviation excels at customer service, and that expertise is proving pivotal in the industry’s recovery from COVID-19. But as NBAA’s 2022 “Return to Service” Leadership Conference will identify, industry leaders must also channel this service mindset inward to become champions of their colleagues and ensure that co-workers ...