Businesses don’t need people who know what to do when there isn't a dilemma or problem. Every generation inherits problems that the previous generation did not solve. The industry doesn't need people who know what somebody else did in the past. Some problems haven't even been invented yet. What is one actually prepared for?” Arrange for the unexpected. There is a contrast between traditional education and real-life situations. A proper education system or trainings program is not a fa...
The pursuit of money and power is harmless until it becomes compulsive. It becomes dangerous the moment they stop being tools and start becoming narcotics. Then it behaves like any other addiction: it narrows the mind, corrodes the character, and blinds one to the very people one should care about, love, or need to lead. Money and power are not addictions in themselves. Rather, the relentless pursuit of them can become addiction-like when it becomes compulsive, increasingly difficult to con...
Formula 1 is the perfect “bridge” to explain aviation innovation. But both share the same engineering culture: extreme precision, extreme safety, extreme performance and zero tolerance for failure. F1 is extremely popular. It operates as a global media network, not just a sport, with billions of cumulative viewers, tens of millions per race, and massive attention across Europe. Formula 1 reached a total cumulative audience of 1.83 billion in the most recent season, it’s largest in five year...
Panels are theatre. Five experts on a stage do not create five times the insight. They create one‑fifth of each, and five times the boredom. They turn leaders into polite conversationalists and audiences into hostages. Panel sessions are “light talk shows” rather than strategic sessions. They turn strategy into small talk. A movement cannot be built on small talk. Panels are tea parties masquerading as insight with polite, lukewarm communication. There are smarter conference session concepts. A...
Some national business aviation associations lead. Some follow. Most drift. BBGA – United Kingdom may be considered the most professionally run national association in Europe. BBGA behaves like a business. If EBAA wants to lead Europe, it must also behave like a business. BBGA is not bigger; it is better designed. EBAA should adopt that design at continental scale. BBGA delivers more with less — EBAA delivers less with more. If EBAA were a business, it would not survive the quarter. If it w...
EBAA is not suffering from a lack of intelligence or good intentions. It is suffering from a lack of relevance. If EBAA does not change, the European business aviation ecosystem will fracture, decentralize, and rebuild itself without EBAA. This is not a threat. It is the natural behavior of an ecosystem when its central node fails. What happens if EBAA does not change is an ecological inevitability. It is not hypothetical. It’s time to wake up.In a southern European country not to be mentioned b...
