Isn’t sad to observe how few people around one, who can really be trusted. They always look at one to see how much they can out of one and benefit from one. It appears that over the years this phenomena has become worse and even continues to get worse. It is everywhere, local, regional and international. It is all about money and power. Human true values get farther and farther in the background. What makes it particularly sad is not merely that some people are selfish, opportunistic, or driven...
The Caribbean understands aviation. But does it fully understand private aviation? The potential blind spot is the distinction between airline passengers and private-aviation passengers. Commercial aviation brings visitors according to a published route network. Private aviation can bring visitors according to their own economic decisions, be it property ownership, investment, yacht activity, and they bring high-value spending. Yet, often with a much smaller number of passengers per arrival.The...
Nevis is building a first-class gateway to its next chapter, creating major opportunities in aviation, hospitality, and investment. The significance is that Nevis can accommodate the aircraft used by the people it may want to attract. With an extended 6,000 ft (1830 mtr) runway, the island puts itself firmly into the serious private- and business-aviation category. Besides the substantial bizav capability, it provides access to smaller commercial airline jets as well as regional turbo...
It brings the Caribbean island nation Antigua & Barbuda in the spotlight. It is no longer simply developing its airport to accommodate tourism growth. It is attempting to develop an aviation platform, with the international airport (ANU/TAPA) at its center combining regional air connectivity, a home-based regional airline, international route development, private aviation, aviation services, cargo and tourism. Evidence increasingly indicates that Antigua & Barbuda wants its ‘V.C. Bi...
Businesses don’t need people who know what to do when there isn't a dilemma or problem. Every generation inherits problems that the previous generation did not solve. The industry doesn't need people who know what somebody else did in the past. Some problems haven't even been invented yet. What is one actually prepared for?” Arrange for the unexpected. There is a contrast between traditional education and real-life situations. A proper education system or trainings program is not a fa...
The pursuit of money and power is harmless until it becomes compulsive. It becomes dangerous the moment they stop being tools and start becoming narcotics. Then it behaves like any other addiction: it narrows the mind, corrodes the character, and blinds one to the very people one should care about, love, or need to lead. Money and power are not addictions in themselves. Rather, the relentless pursuit of them can become addiction-like when it becomes compulsive, increasingly difficult to con...
Formula 1 is the perfect “bridge” to explain aviation innovation. But both share the same engineering culture: extreme precision, extreme safety, extreme performance and zero tolerance for failure. F1 is extremely popular. It operates as a global media network, not just a sport, with billions of cumulative viewers, tens of millions per race, and massive attention across Europe. Formula 1 reached a total cumulative audience of 1.83 billion in the most recent season, it’s largest in five year...
Panels are theatre. Five experts on a stage do not create five times the insight. They create one‑fifth of each, and five times the boredom. They turn leaders into polite conversationalists and audiences into hostages. Panel sessions are “light talk shows” rather than strategic sessions. They turn strategy into small talk. A movement cannot be built on small talk. Panels are tea parties masquerading as insight with polite, lukewarm communication. There are smarter conference session concepts. A...
Some national business aviation associations lead. Some follow. Most drift. BBGA – United Kingdom may be considered the most professionally run national association in Europe. BBGA behaves like a business. If EBAA wants to lead Europe, it must also behave like a business. BBGA is not bigger; it is better designed. EBAA should adopt that design at continental scale. BBGA delivers more with less — EBAA delivers less with more. If EBAA were a business, it would not survive the quarter. If it w...
EBAA is not suffering from a lack of intelligence or good intentions. It is suffering from a lack of relevance. If EBAA does not change, the European business aviation ecosystem will fracture, decentralize, and rebuild itself without EBAA. This is not a threat. It is the natural behavior of an ecosystem when its central node fails. What happens if EBAA does not change is an ecological inevitability. It is not hypothetical. It’s time to wake up.In a southern European country not to be mentioned b...
Initiator at CARIBAVIA and RIVIERAVIA conferences.
A Specialist in Strategic Communication – i.e. communicating essential information to selected audiences and to ensure that the communication is noticed by the senses, sticks in the mind, and affects the thinking, behavior, or activities of the audience.
Combine this with his current activities as event organizer, award judge, author, editor, columnist, copy writer, and you may conclude that he is a source of power for corporate communication.
