Hello All, In my last post I mentioned the five leadership actions of Ken Jennings’ Serving Leader. In this post I’d like to cover one called “Upend the Pyramid.” Most of us have joined or been part of organizations where the first thing we did was to look at the organizational diagram to figure out where we fit and how that related to our job, and who we reported to or perhaps who reported to [...]

Just about every study that has been conducted on aerospace employment over the next twenty years indicates the U.S. will have a shortage of qualified aerospace workers.

It is clear that the past decade has been a challenge for most of the U.S. aviation and aerospace industry. 9/11, the financial crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the global recession and current geopolitical situation have created an environment that makes it difficult to plan and execute traditional business strategies. Commercial aviation has struggled, general aviation has been devastated, the space program is in turmoil, and the future of military aviation is unclear. [...]