Picard Tips
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Picard management tip: Tell the crew where to go. Let them figure out how to get there.
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Picard management tip: Don't negotiate absurd schedules with engineers. Encourage truth telling and reasonable time estimates.
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Picard engineering tip: Make it so every subsystem can be found and repaired manually, even if you need to crawl to reach it.
3 days ago
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Picard management tip: If anyone on your ship seems perfect, it means you aren't paying enough attention.
4 days ago
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Picard life tip: Resolve to make self improvement a habit, a lifestyle, a challenge, that becomes part of who you are all year, every year.
5 days ago
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Picard management tip: Start your log entries with the current stardate. It helps you keep track of what year it is.
6 days ago
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Picard style tip: If you don't have much on top, keep the back and sides short.
7 days ago
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Picard management tip: Tell good stories. The right story can persuade, inspire, or illuminate.
8 days ago
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Picard honesty tip: Don't let anyone else tell you how many lights you see.
9 days ago
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Picard management tip: After any stressful adventure, give yourself and your crew ample recovery time.
10 days ago
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Picard management tip: Take your leisure time seriously. A relaxed captain is a sane captain.
11 days ago
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Picard holiday tip: Religion and commercialism will both fade over generations. Generosity and kindness, however, will endure.
12 days ago
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Picard management tip: Take some alone time. The crew will be fine without you.
13 days ago
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Picard management tip: If a workaholic crew member pursues busywork on shore leave, insist that they stop and enjoy their free time.
14 days ago
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Picard perspective tip: Spend some time staring at the stars. It feeds the soul and revives the mind.
15 days ago
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Picard management tip: Avoid euphemisms. Call a thing what it really is.
16 days ago
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Picard management tip: Think.
17 days ago
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Picard management tip: Show crew members how impressed you are with their accomplishments. Validation matters.
18 days ago
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Picard management tip: A captain's primary role is to inspire the crew's desire to complete their mission.
19 days ago
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Picard management tip: Once all their basic needs are taken care of, crew members are motivated by the meaningfulness of their work.
20 days ago
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Picard perspective tip: Neither the sun, the moon, the stars, nor any asteroids revolve around you. You are a dust mote with ideas.
21 days ago
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Picard management tip: The secret to garnering respect is courtesy, not bravado.
22 days ago
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Picard management tip: We all have a primordial instinct to fear the unknown. It is up to each of us to suppress that instinct, to investigate mysteries even in the face of risk.
23 days ago
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Picard management tip: Share the credit. Take the blame.
24 days ago
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Picard management tip: Respond to questions unambiguously and with authority.
25 days ago
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Picard sociology tip: Those who rise to power by embracing ignorance and fear will only make their people more ignorant and afraid.
27 days ago
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Picard management tip: If you're unhappy with a crew member's behavior, tell them straight out in private. Don't be passive aggressive.
28 days ago
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Picard management tip: Question authority, and permit others to question yours without fear of punishment.
29 days ago
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Picard management tip: If you only play to your strengths you may look competent but ultimately you will stagnate. Play to your weaknesses as well. Improve with practice. There is so much more to learn.
30 days ago
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Picard management tip: Take no notice of cleavage.
about 1 month ago
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Picard perspective tip: Space is big. Bigger than you think. No, bigger than that.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: Give the most interesting assignments to other crew members, not yourself. That's how people stay engaged.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: Keep a log of your journey. You will understand better by writing it down.
about 1 month ago
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Picard writing tip: Getting your point across is more important than following archaic rules. It's okay to boldly split infinitives.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: Try your best to speak in a way the other person will understand, even when it seems nearly impossible.
about 1 month ago
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Picard sanity tip: If there are four lights, say there are four lights.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: Always be ready to change course.
about 1 month ago
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Picard engineering tip: Don't allow the computer to push you around. Let it know who's boss.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: At a high level, know how all the machines work.
about 1 month ago
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Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: One mission at a time.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: Be willing to ask for help, even from people you dislike.
about 1 month ago
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Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: When you're threatened with catastrophe, it's rational to try a risky maneuver.
about 1 month ago
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Picard management tip: Take full responsibility for your crew's mistakes.
about 2 months ago
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Picard travel tip: Bring a book.
about 2 months ago
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Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.
about 2 months ago
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Picard exploration tip: Yes, there are 100s of billions of galaxies, but it will take 1,000 lifetimes to map this one, so focus for now.
about 2 months ago
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Picard management tip: Remember what you liked to play with as a child. Identify the larger, grown-up versions of those toys at work.
about 2 months ago
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