by Jeff Price | Nov 11, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
One of the best checklist makers in the world are airplane manufacturers. Pilots use dozens of checklists, whole books of them in fact. There’s a checklist for inspecting the aircraft before flight, one for configuring the airplane before you start the engines,...
by Jeff Price | Nov 9, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
I think most people understand the basic concept of the checklist. Find a process that needs to be done – write it down. Check it off as you go. But the problem is understanding when you need a checklist and what needs to go on it (not every step is always...
by Jeff Price | Nov 7, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Shortly after airplanes started flying, airplanes started crashing. This is of course generally seen as a bad thing and soon the term “pilot error,” would enter our cultural vernacular and never go away (Gawande 32-33). Flying a simple aircraft is actually...
by Jeff Price | Nov 5, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Being a pilot you are raised on checklists, so it really came as a surprise to me that this seemed to be new information for people, particularly those in the medical field. After all, wouldn’t you want to know that the doctor checked to make sure you were...
by Jeff Price | Oct 29, 2013 | Employment and Achievement, Life & Career Success
How has the 21st century workplace changed? With the Millennial generation rapidly overtaking the workforce, it is inevitable that the way we do business and how we interact around the office is different than the industrial work model we’ve embraced since the...
by Jeff Price | Oct 24, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
Force equals Mass times Acceleration (F=Ma) It’s a basic equation in physics and applies in violent encounters. If you can apply enough force, using either mass, acceleration or both, you can ‘force’ someone to have a reaction. If you hit them in the...
