by Jeff Price | Nov 14, 2013 | Life & Career Success
A big part of feeling the fear and doing it anyway is realizing that there is not going to come a time in the short or long-term future where fear will go away. A big part of our success in life is learning to live with these fears but be able to blast through them....
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 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
In some sort of cosmic irony the nation’s aviation security leaders gathered just days after the shooting at Los Angeles international Airport to discuss the topics most important to them. The main topic of discussion however was not LAX. Its just too...
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 | Nov 4, 2013 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
What should you do in an active shooter event? Did LAX do the right thing? Was the evacuation effective? There is a phrase I’ve heard in the aircraft rescue and fire fighting community, in answer to the question, “if you’re in a plane that crash, how far should...
by Jeff Price | Nov 2, 2013 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
As more information continues to come out about the incident in Los Angeles, the question I have been getting most today relates to whether TSA screeners should be armed. Well, here’s some insight – there are TSA personnel that are armed. Obviously the air...
by Jeff Price | Nov 2, 2013 | Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
I have spent the better part of the day talking to various media outlets about the shooting at Los Angeles international Airport. First, our thoughts go out to the TSA and other personnel who were injured and particularly the Behavior Detection Officer who died in the...
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...
