Picard Tips

Picard management tip: Be the team coach for your crew, not their loving parent, nor their drill sergeant.

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

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Picard management tip: If your team is outstanding, have a camera crew chronicle your work and stream it on Netflix.

Picard management tip: Surround yourself with people whom you would trust with your life.

Picard devops tip: No, you are not allowed to connect your brain to the computer. Learn to type like everyone else.

Picard management tip: Don't just be yourself. Be the best version of yourself. Recall who you were on your best day. Be that person again.

Picard management tip: Break a complex, urgent problem into subcomponents, one for each of your lieutenants to solve.

Picard diversity tip: The fact that a crewmember looks alien to you does not make them any less of a Starfleet officer.

Picard management tip: The most successful discussions happen in person, not over phone, email, or view screen.

Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

Picard management tip: Even without game-changing results, experimentation is time well spent.

Picard leadership tip: Respect must be earned. Trust must be earned. A demand for either means the loss of both.

Picard management tip: If you've recently turned into a monster, go take a vacation.

Picard management tip: Be willing to reevaluate your own behavior.

Picard strategy tip: When an egotistical, malevolent person tells you their dangerous intent, believe them.

Picard management tip: Experiment.

Picard management tip: Remember your mission, but be ready to change it.

Picard management tip: Communicate to the crew what frontier you are exploring together.

Picard management tip: There is a time to follow a military hierarchy and there is a time to enjoy an informal community.

Picard organization tip: Compose your enterprise from separable parts. A section might need to be able to go off on its own for a while.

Picard engineering tip: Maintenance of existing systems is just as important as building new capabilities.

Picard management tip: Error is the great teacher, memorable and valuable. Embrace it. Let it educate you.

Picard leadership tip: Think for yourself. Don't just repeat what other people say.

Picard management tip: Know who you really are and what really matters to you. Then let the crew know.

Picard management tip: Admitting one's failures is a sign of confidence and strength. It reassures others that failing is okay.

Picard management tip: It's rarely about you.

Picard Tamarian tip: Zinda, his face black, his eyes red. The river Temarc in winter. Kira at Bashi. Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

Picard management tip: Intuition is valuable, but it's not a substitute for facts.

Picard programming tip: A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.