Picard Tips

Picard management tip: Take full responsibility for your crew's mistakes.

Picard travel tip: Bring a book.

Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.

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.

Picard management tip: Remember what you liked to play with as a child. Identify the larger, grown-up versions of those toys at work.

Picard aesthetics tip: Reading on a screen is fine, but there's nothing like an old bound volume of literature.

Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.

Picard management tip: Ignore rules that make no sense.

Picard culinary tip: Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

Picard management tip: Do your best to learn about and comprehend the experiences of people who look very different from you.

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Picard management tip: If they know their jobs, leave them alone. If they don't, help them learn.

Picard coping tip: There is no strict timetable for dealing with loss. Everyone must find their way through grief in their own time.

Picard happiness tip: Spend as much time as you can with your soulmate, as I have done with Gandalf.

Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.

Picard management tip: Allow yourself some alone time. It may help you think.

Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.

Picard responsibility tip: Don't leave known, wide-scale problems behind for the next generation to solve.

Picard civics tip: When a foreign power has wormed its way into your institution's highest office, it is every officer's duty to resist.

Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.

Picard management tip: The truth is that sometimes you just won't know the right thing to do. You still have to try.

Picard management tip: Encourage extracurricular activities with your crew, especially if it involves wearing costumes.

Picard civics tip: Elect leaders the way you would hire crew members. Seek calm, control, and familiarity with how to operate the ship.

Picard management tip: When you make a mistake, apologize right away. Embrace humility over defense.

Picard management tip: Take the time to celebrate successfully completing missions. Smile and congratulate the crew.

Picard management tip: Always obey orders, except when the orders are wrong.

Picard perspective tip: In another reality, there is an alternate version of you who is envious of what you have accomplished.

Picard management tip: Initiate positive changes. If not you, who?

Picard management tip: Refusing to decide is the worst decision you can make.

Picard civics tip: Becoming subservient to an oppressive regime shows profound disrespect to the people being governed.