Picard Tips

Picard style tip: If you're balding, don't hide it. Own it.

Picard management tip: Take your best crew members at their word, however surprising their claims may sound.

Picard management tip: Polite crew members solve problems together. Rude crew members escalate problems all by themselves.

Picard leadership tip: If your people are in need of a better example to follow, and if you are confident you can be that example, then consider, really consider, postponing your retirement.

Picard management tip: Your orders do not dictate your ideals. Your ideals determine how you interpret your orders.

Picard management tip: If it feels like time is moving at the wrong speed, cancel a few meetings.

Picard management tip: If you never fail, you aren't going boldly enough.

Picard economic tip: The risks of confinement to a single planet exceed the costs of interstellar travel.

Picard management tip: Run crisis drills when all is well. A real calamity is not a good time for training.

Picard Shakespeare tip: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Picard leadership tip: The larger your audience and the higher your position, the greater the need to communicate with care and precision.

Picard management tip: If crew members have what they need to be comfortable, their work won't be all about money.

Picard ethics tip: Target their weapons.

Picard management tip: Don't assume anything is possible or impossible until you've asked the people who will be doing the work.

Picard management tip: If you succeed too much and become cocky, recognize it, admit it, and stop it.

Picard schooling tip: Don't be too tentative. Have experiences. Be dastardly. Get into trouble.

Picard management tip: No good ever comes from checking your first officer's search history.