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Small Caribbean Island Extends Runway For High-End Travelers

Nevis is building a first-class gateway to its next chapter, creating major opportunities in aviation, hospitality, and investment. The significance is that Nevis can accommodate the aircraft used by the people it may want to attract.  With an extended 6,000 ft (1830 mtr) runway, the island puts itself firmly into the serious private- and business-aviation category. Besides the substantial bizav capability, it provides access to smaller commercial airline jets as well as regional turbo...

The Middle-East and Caribbean aviation connection

It brings the Caribbean island nation Antigua & Barbuda in the spotlight. It is no longer simply developing its airport to accommodate tourism growth. It is attempting to develop an aviation platform, with the international airport (ANU/TAPA) at its center combining regional air connectivity, a home-based regional airline, international route development, private aviation, aviation services, cargo and tourism. Evidence increasingly indicates that Antigua & Barbuda wants its ‘V.C. Bi...

Who Taught You How To Think?

Businesses don’t need people who know what to do when there isn't a dilemma or problem. Every generation inherits problems that the previous generation did not solve. The industry doesn't need people who know what somebody else did in the past. Some problems haven't even been invented yet. What is one actually prepared for?”  Arrange for the unexpected. There is a contrast between traditional education and real-life situations. A proper education system or trainings program is not a fa...

When Success Becomes a Drug

The pursuit of money and power is harmless until it becomes compulsive. It becomes dangerous the moment they stop being tools and start becoming narcotics. Then it behaves like any other addiction: it narrows the mind, corrodes the character, and blinds one to the very people one should care about, love, or need to lead. Money and power are not addictions in themselves. Rather, the relentless pursuit of them can become addiction-like when it becomes compulsive, increasingly difficult to con...

F1 explains aviation better than aviation does

Formula 1 is the perfect “bridge” to explain aviation innovation. But both share the same engineering culture: extreme precision, extreme safety, extreme performance and zero tolerance for failure. F1 is extremely popular. It operates as a global media network, not just a sport, with billions of cumulative viewers, tens of millions per race, and massive attention across Europe. Formula 1 reached a total cumulative audience of 1.83 billion in the most recent season, it’s largest in five year...

Are conference panel sessions stupid?

Panels are theatre. Five experts on a stage do not create five times the insight. They create one‑fifth of each, and five times the boredom. They turn leaders into polite conversationalists and audiences into hostages. Panel sessions are “light talk shows” rather than strategic sessions. They turn strategy into small talk. A movement cannot be built on small talk. Panels are tea parties masquerading as insight with polite, lukewarm communication.  There are smarter conference session concepts. A...