posted by Andrew Hartley - Business Consultant & Entrepreneur on Jan 27
Hello and welcome to my blog, The Aviation of Business!
My name is Andrew Hartley, and I am a transportation professional. My background is almost entirely in aviation: I have worked for public airlines and privately owned business-jet companies, as well as state and local governments in managing airports. I currently work for a large shipping company which, unfortunately, is not in the aviation industry… so I’m currently “ground-bound” in my job.
I’ve decided to start this blog because I recently finished an MBA in entrepreneurship from Franklin University. I decided to attend Franklin because I knew that I wanted to be an entrepreneur and own my own business, but I was very unsure of myself insofar as starting a business was concerned. I had ideas, and I had a BS degree in Management (Aviation Management - imagine that!), but I have little background in starting and running my own business. I thought that going to school to learn more about it might help.
Since finishing my MBA, I left my previous employer and became a Training Manager at my new employer (I was a Training Consultant at my previous job). I love training and learning and was being pulled away from it at my previous job, so I left. Now at my current job, I am back in training and I enjoyed it, but I was still not happy. I hadn’t started truly focusing on my entrepreneurial future, and it was driving me crazy. So here I am.
It struck me not too long ago that flying an airplane (yes, I’m a pilot, too) is a lot like starting and running a business (and vice-versa). The point of this blog is to help me explain that concept - but I think that would be a little too narrow, so this blog will not only be about the similarities of entrepreneurship and flying (what the business world can learn from pilots and the other way around), but also about business in general. I’ll also use it to explain my progress in becoming a true entrepreneur, starting to open and run my own businesses. I want to use this blog as a place where we can all learn together - I’ll teach you, and you’ll teach me.
We’ll talk about what and who has helped us along the way; we’ll talk about new ideas in business and what they mean for your businesses and mine - and the business world in general. We’ll talk about old, strongly-held beliefs about business that just don’t fly - and those that still make sense.
So I hope that my ramblings and my ideas and my journey and my writings are of interest to you. Take the good ideas and leave the bad ones, and drop me comments so I can tell which are which.
And welcome aboard. Thanks for flying The Aviation of Business!
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