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Flight Speed

Alan Weiss

This morning a very popular and professional local radio host commented that there was an article, he was told, in the New England Journal of Medicine, pointing out that masks were not an effective preventive for the coronavirus. Before posting this on any of my platforms, I thought I’d better check out the source.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Supersonic Flight. The Aviation Market.

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Lifehacks for New Management Consultants

Steve Shu Consulting

Here are a few to make your personal life better: Never check baggage on flights. Get briefed on the industry of your client as fast as possible; ask others what they did to come up to speed. I tried to quickly reflect on lifehacks that really helped me in my first year so that other, new consultants might benefit from my learnings.

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There’s A Rule of Law and A Law of Rules

Alan Weiss

A highway speed limit of 55 MPH is designed so people won’t go over 75 MPH, and that’s were enforcement usually begins if there’s the coincidence of a police presence. If the speed limit were 75 MPH, people would do 95 MPH. If they don’t make sense or are inconsistently applied, they will be violated.

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How much does a mistake cost?

Seth Godin Blog

On the other hand, a mistake in calculating the route of a high-speed rail line might cost a billion dollars… And we probably don’t want any errors on the pacemaker assembly line. A typo on this blog is relatively inexpensive. Thanks to loyal reader Seth Barnes for graciously emailing me when one slips through).

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Risk Management Concepts

CaseInterview.com

To earn this $1, you have to walk across a busy freeway at a specific time of day specified by someone else while blindfolded and at a consistent speed, without stopping. You can use this approach to decide what time to leave for the airport when catching a flight to an important family event.

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The Best Test of a Servant-Leader

Makarios Consulting

In this frenetic “Flight of the Bumblebee” work environment, the words of James Sipe and Don Frick in their classic book Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership , sound an unsettling note. Leaders are under tremendous pressure to rally the troops to get massive amounts of work done as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.