Straight & Level: Leadership Lessons from Aviation: Recent Episodes
Liam Abramson
Aviation is one of the safest forms of transport. However, it only became this safe through learning from sometimes catastrophic failures. Many of these failures were caused by a breakdown in leadership - either in the cockpit or from airline management. There is a lot we can learn about leadership in the corporate world by applying the lessons learned from the world of aviation and using stories from the world of flying as examples of what team leaders and leaders of people should or should not be doing.
The amazing story of US 1549, otherwise known as the Miracle on the Hudson. What are the leadership lessons we can learn from that flight that lasted just minutes and ended without a single fatality?
Great books:
· Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Captain Chesley B Sullenberger III and Jeffrey Zaslow
· Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche
On film:
· Sully (2016) with Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart. Directed by Clint Eastwood
A short preview of the new Straight & Level Podcast - learning about leadership from the world of aviation.