by Michael Devers | Feb 17, 2020 | Crisis Prevention
The last weekend in January of 2020 was a terrible one for aviation in the United States. Many people know of the helicopter crash on Sunday, January 26th that claimed the lives of NBA Hall-of-Famer Kobe Bryant, his thirteen-year-old daughter, and seven others. Most...
by Michael Devers | Feb 10, 2020 | On Writing
Frequently, I’m asked to write various things: articles, press releases, blurbs, descriptive paragraphs, quotes, and other random items of differing lengths. Occasionally, the person who requested the work is delighted by my efforts and sometimes I’m asked if I have a...
by Michael Devers | Feb 3, 2020 | Strategy
Pull up your calendar and take a look at last week. How many scheduled appointments were for the benefit or convenience of other people – updates, planning meetings, conference calls, providing feedback, etc.? If you’re like most people who work with other humans, the...
by Michael Devers | Jan 27, 2020 | Crisis Prevention
Every brilliant strategy, each perfectly engineered process, and any flawless safety program can all be unraveled in an instant by one insidious factor: complacency. The gradual erosion of focus and attention to a task that deserves both, complacency threatens every...
by Michael Devers | Jan 20, 2020 | Goals, Strategy
If every reward was financially based, no one would ever have children. At least not on purpose. This was the point I made to a coaching client after we completed the analysis for a new venture one of his friends planned to launch this year, with the hope that it...
