A Four-Step Formula for Solving Problems without Ego
A confused response will make any scenario worse. Here’s how the Crew Resource Management method gives you a four-step framework to avert disaster through clear communication.
How you’ve kept past commitments tells others what to expect
Everyone can bring something to the table. Your job is to help everyone make the greatest contribution they can.
Your First Stewardship is Your Self
It’s in every preflight safety training, even the epic ones: “Put on your own oxygen mask before helping someone else with theirs.” On his Smarter Every Day YouTube channel, Destin Sandlin induced hypoxia in himself—under the close supervision of professionals, including a flight surgeon—to demonstrate the effects. By the end, he couldn’t figure out how […]
Every team needs a leader, even a family
All leaders need a vision for their team, not just at work. Here are six ways your family will struggle, too, if you don’t have a vision.
You’re Limiting Your Results if You Go It Alone
When we work together, our limits start to become a background consideration.
Play to your strengths, but develop new strengths, too
Become strong where you’re weak so you don’t become weak where you’re strong.
A mindset where everybody wins
Being courageous and considerate aren’t that hard, unless you’re trying to do both at the same time.
When you knock them down, help them to their feet
Rules teach us more than how to win. They teach us how to play the game.
How you face adversity determines how it ends
It’s no accident that the bison faces left on the Wyoming state flag, or that the U.S. flag on a soldier’s right shoulder is reversed. Which way do you face?
Find the actionable message and ignore the rest
Properly given, feedback is actionable (if not humbling). When it’s awkward, you need to sort through their words to find the message.
