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As an aviation geek I& #39;m always pleased when I can use my hobby in my professional life. Short thread.
Flying has a thing called Crew Resource Management (CRM). This is a set of skills for effective communication, teamwork, problem solving & situational awareness. One thing it teaches is that good ideas can come from anyone, not just the leader.
On Jan 15 2009, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger & crew ditched an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River. Everyone survived. Just before impact he asked his First Officer "Got any ideas?" Here& #39;s what Sully had to say about that afterwards.
On July 19 1989, Al Haynes & crew crash-landed a DC-10 at Sioux City after triple hydraulic failure. 184 people survived, 112 died. In later simulations no-one was able to land it. Here& #39;s what Al Haynes had to say afterwards.
Today, we solved a problem that causes a service to eventually fall over. I didn& #39;t solve it; someone else did in an elegant & simple way I wish I& #39;d thought of. My main contribution was listening to their idea & keeping my ego in check.
Wanting to have all the answers is a very human response. Perhaps even more so in tech where your value is often determined by how much you know. Applying CRM can be uncomfortable, but a conscious decision to let others give the answers can have a big payoff.
Or as someone else once said, "Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas."
Always worth remembering.
Always worth remembering.
