Tony Kern, for 28 years the influential speaker on the first day of Bombardier Safety Standdown and founding partner and CEO of Convergent Performance, challenged this year’s Standdown audience. “As you listen to me, as you listen to all the other speakers, I want you to think about reversing this theme a little bit, and ask yourself, what influences you? Who influences you?”
Tying together the influence theme and how business aviation professionals can help each other with safety issues related to preparedness, Kern illustrated his points with Venn diagrams showing the intersection between unexpected events and lack of vigilance, complacency, and apathy. “There’s a lot of shade in that Venn diagram,” he said. “What if we could replace that? What if we could influence ourselves? What if we could influence others and replace that apathy and complacency? No one is apathetic or complacent overall; it goes up and down. Sometimes we're apathetic, sometimes we're bored, sometimes we're complacent, and other times we're hypervigilant.”
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