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Say less for success

The more words one uses, the less are remembered. The success formula is to skip the convoluted and elaborate, the irrelevant, and the unnecessary. Cut the bluff, fluff and stuff.  The greatest virtue of a speaker is to say what is necessary, but also not to say what is not necessary.  Many take far too long to get to the point and then there are those who like to hear themselves talking. Communication should be focused, simple, tranquil, and have a mindful approach. Conversi...

Hints for effective communication

 “Getting messages across depends on the available time for perception of messages which priorities are determined by relevance or pertinence.” I just explained to you, within a 140-character limit, what is essential for communication to be effective.  It is the art of deduction using a sniper level skill. “Get to the point” if you want it even shorter.  Strategic communication is communicating essential information to selected audiences, and to ensure that the communication is noticed by the se...

Charlie’s Angels Aviation

"Once upon a time there were three young women who graduated from a flight academy. Despite proving their capability during training, they were each assigned mediocre duties at aviation operations. They were dissatisfied with these jobs. I recruited them. My name is Charlie!"Wouldn’t that cause uproar if a charter operator would publicly announce that strictly only female pilots, aircraft mechanics and other staff are hired? Consider it challenging uniqueness. Charlie’s Angels Aviation would pro...

Argumentum ad ignorantiam

Most progress and increased revenues in the future may come from products and services that do not exist today. Not having the evidence that something does not exist yet, doesn’t mean that it cannot be done. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does that mean that it didn’t happen?  Now, to be honest, do you know what the headline “argumentum ad ignorantiam” means? Or did you just continue to read thinking that such memorable expression would be followed by something extremely wise...

The Caribbean will get business incubators! A chance for future air mobility?

The Saudi Fund for Development recently signed a $10 million loan agreement to construct business incubation centers in the Bahamas. It was signed in Riyadh by the CEO of the Fund, H.E. Sultan Al-Marshad and the Hon. Isaac Chester Cooper, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation. The agreement involves the construction of business incubation centers on some of the islands of the Bahama archipelago to support the growth of tourism, cre...

Caribbean as super-rich as Middle-East

Just like in the Middle-East, it is all about fuel. But no drilling in Caribbean! No way, José! Pumping? Yes! Pumping seawater and the islands are actually swimming in it. This is no joke or dilly-dally. Oh no! As the emperor of France once said, ’Not tonight Josephine’. This is serious business. The Caribbean communities could flourish. Islands swimming in the seawater will not be the same as island swimming in money, however there is a solution that has the potential for success on a scale amb...