Comments on: Explorers as CEOs, CEOs as Explorers https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/explorers-as-ceos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=explorers-as-ceos 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/explorers-as-ceos/#comment-3225 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:40:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=5338#comment-3225 In reply to Space_Cowboy.

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Simple flight preparation is so fundamental that considerations such as fuel do not rise to the level of planning. You flight plan for the effective fuel capacity (not nominal) plus 45 minutes plus the longest approach you might fly with two tries. That is catechism not planning.

You also know where every alternate landing site is along your entire route of flight before you start your engines.

As to parachutes, you always carry a reserve and know when to cut the main loose and deploy the reserve.

Two excellent analogies on the part of the Space Cowboy. Well played.

Merry Christmas.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

]]> By: Space_Cowboy https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/explorers-as-ceos/#comment-3224 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:18:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=5338#comment-3224 A mind is like a parachute, Best utilized when ‘open’.
Unlike the Chapecoense travesty (your Bonanza experience should have taught your about “range”) where the Capitan (also the owner) did not understand alternatives.

]]> By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/explorers-as-ceos/#comment-3223 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:05:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=5338#comment-3223 In reply to Ryan Kulp.

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Life is all about beginnings and endings. One caution I give is that sometimes a business is just six inches from the mother lode when they stop digging. Don’t be that CEO.

Easy advice to give but tough advice to live.

Then, again, all the easy deals got done in the 1960s.

Merry Christmas!

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

]]> By: Ryan Kulp https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/explorers-as-ceos/#comment-3222 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:56:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=5338#comment-3222 as often as a CEO needs to be willing to try “the next big thing,” whether a marketing strategy, product concept, or new hire, sometimes exploring manifests itself as retreating.

so the closed loop on positive exploration, is also knowing when to end it.

]]> By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/explorers-as-ceos/#comment-3221 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:50:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=5338#comment-3221 .
Experiments and exploration are two ways to manage change in an effective manner within your organization. They are CEO skills which should be in your bag of tricks.

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BRC
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