posted by Andrew Hartley - Business Consultant & Entrepreneur on May 12
So - comparing running a business to flying an airplane is a pretty big stretch, huh? It’s all really a crock - I’m just trying to link two of my passions together so I can feel like when I’m doing one I’m not ignoring the other, right? For the last three or nearly four years, I have not been in an airplane that I was flying myself, so I have really stretched the limits of feasibility to convince myself that I have not actually given up flying for so long. I’ve actually been keeping it in my head and using what I learned through my pilot training to help me start and run my businesses.
How’s that sound? Convincing?
Because it’s crap. Aviation and business are strikingly similar - and the next six posts will help convince anyone skeptical (and will help me gel my thoughts about the subject for myself as well). So keep in tune over the next few weeks as I post about how each of the “sacred six” instruments in an airplane coincide perfectly (or nearly so) with ways that people judge the performance of a business. The pictures below are examples of the “sacred six” instruments… take some time and think about how they help a pilot better understand the performance and activity of her aircraft - and how they might be similar to the way business performance is judged.
I’ll post again soon and explain one of the above instruments. Leave some comments if YOU have ideas about how these instruments might tie into typical business performance tracking!
Fair Winds,
Andrew
