Comments on: Pilot Your Way to Success: 15 Leadership Lessons From Flight Training http://www.elg.net/15-leadership-lessons-from-flight-training/ Excelerating Strategy Execution Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:30 -0600 hourly 1 By: Michael Pinckney http://www.elg.net/15-leadership-lessons-from-flight-training/#comment-4375 Michael Pinckney Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:22:15 +0000 http://www.elg.net/?p=2358#comment-4375 Great piece! There’s nothing like a framework in which to think about many seemingly disparate but important issues. Great piece! There’s nothing like a framework in which to think about many seemingly disparate but important issues.

]]> By: Thomas Mawhinney http://www.elg.net/15-leadership-lessons-from-flight-training/#comment-4360 Thomas Mawhinney Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:42:39 +0000 http://www.elg.net/?p=2358#comment-4360 Dear Wendi and Bill, Thanks for sharing these 15 lessons! I earned my single engine VFR license around 1968 and passed the commercial pilot ground school exam; flew mainly out of what was once the Opa Locka Navel Air Station. Nowadays, I teach Strategic Management at both the under graduate and graduate levels. So I instantly grasped the connection between successful aircraft piloting and organizational leadership/management. In fact for years I have drawn an analogy between the principles of flight in terms of airfoils/flight surfaces and air speed and Michael Porter's 5-forces analysis of interactions among players in strategic industry groups. Mr. Wargo's analogy goes well beyond mine in scope and effectively gets at what I have found to be the most difficult teaching task and lessons about strategic management as student may learn. For lack of a better term I would call it the dynamics of effective organizational leadership or management. I also think the lessons here go beyond management to life in general. The issue of retirement comes up with some frequency among folks my age. And I can envision that being something like preparations for a landing where you don't want it to be under emergency conditions. Dear Wendi and Bill,

Thanks for sharing these 15 lessons!

I earned my single engine VFR license around 1968 and passed the commercial pilot ground school exam; flew mainly out of what was once the Opa Locka Navel Air Station.

Nowadays, I teach Strategic Management at both the under graduate and graduate levels. So I instantly grasped the connection between successful aircraft piloting and organizational leadership/management. In fact for years I have drawn an analogy between the principles of flight in terms of airfoils/flight surfaces and air speed and Michael Porter’s 5-forces analysis of interactions among players in strategic industry groups.

Mr. Wargo’s analogy goes well beyond mine in scope and effectively gets at what I have found to be the most difficult teaching task and lessons about strategic management as student may learn. For lack of a better term I would call it the dynamics of effective organizational leadership or management.

I also think the lessons here go beyond management to life in general. The issue of retirement comes up with some frequency among folks my age. And I can envision that being something like preparations for a landing where you don’t want it to be under emergency conditions.

]]> By: Fifteen Leadership Lessons from Flight Training http://www.elg.net/15-leadership-lessons-from-flight-training/#comment-4351 Fifteen Leadership Lessons from Flight Training Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:16:37 +0000 http://www.elg.net/?p=2358#comment-4351 [...] a guest post on Executive Leadership Group’s blog, I discuss fifteen invaluable lessons from flight [...] [...] a guest post on Executive Leadership Group’s blog, I discuss fifteen invaluable lessons from flight [...]

]]> By: Muki Kerr http://www.elg.net/15-leadership-lessons-from-flight-training/#comment-4341 Muki Kerr Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:24:44 +0000 http://www.elg.net/?p=2358#comment-4341 Hi Wendi & Bill, From my perspective of a graphic designer, this flight training article has concepts that I see as good business practices for my own print projects. I even actually do a 'pre-flight cross check', before ordering a print job, it's a valuable technique for avoiding costly mistakes. I enjoyed the article. Muki Hi Wendi & Bill,
From my perspective of a graphic designer, this flight training article has concepts that I see as good business practices for my own print projects. I even actually do a ‘pre-flight cross check’, before ordering a print job, it’s a valuable technique for avoiding costly mistakes.

I enjoyed the article.

Muki

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