Picard management tip: Be patient with crew members' idiosyncrasies. They aren't machines. Well, most of them.

Picard management tip: When you stand up, straighten your shirt.

Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.

Picard programming tip: The first version of any software will be buggy. That's why so many holodeck programs try to kill you.

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Picard management tip: If you lose one crew member, mourn appropriately. If the whole ship explodes, don't worry; time travel will fix it.

Picard management tip: Take vacations.

Picard management tip: Tolerate failure, not incompetence. Learn the difference.

Picard technology tip: An advanced system isn't always easy to use. Improve the interface, or try pushing buttons at random.

Picard management tip: If you're not sure what to say, take a deep breath and a dramatic pause. Maybe somebody else will talk first.

Picard management tip: Make it sound like you know what you're doing, even if you're just picking a direction.

Picard management tip: Humility without confidence is sheepishness. Confidence without humility is arrogance.

Picard dating tip: No kissing until after you've faced mortal peril together.

Picard management tip: Hire aliens. It's no big deal.

Picard management tip: Avoid euphemisms. Call a thing what it really is.

Picard strategy tip: Pick your battles. Fight injustices before annoyances.

Picard management tip: You're going to meet some buffoons and scoundrels. Try to be the better person.

Picard management tip: Stirring up competition between crew members is the opposite of your job.

Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.

Picard artistry tip: Lacking innate talent at a skill doesn't mean you should stop. On the contrary, it means you need to practice.

Picard management tip: When you hear yourself start to raise your voice, stop, take a breath, smile, then speak politely.

Picard management tip: Leave the bridge sometimes. Other people can handle things fine without you.

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 cosmology tip: Six sevenths of all matter is undetectable, so stop thinking you know so much.

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.

Picard morality tip: The moment you consider yourself morally superior to someone due to your genetics is the moment you prove you are not.

Picard management tip: Be willing to laugh at yourself, but unwilling to laugh at your coworkers.

Picard management tip: Adopt the latest technologies right away, even if they're in beta.

Picard anthropology tip: The very concept of a messiah is inherently authoritarian.

Picard management tip: Suppress your inner alarm. Be the calmest person in the room.

Picard management tip: The respect you show your crew is a major factor in determining how they feel about their work.

Picard career tip: The grass may seem greener on the other side, but sometimes it's because of all the fertilizer.

Picard management tip: No one can relax around Dr. Jekyll after they have met Mr. Hyde.

Picard social tip: A Vulcan can laugh. A Klingon can soothe. A Ferengi can give. Your preconceptions are not facts.

Picard management tip: Tell the crew where to go. Let them figure out how to get there.