R44 lands on houseboat - Hawkesbury River
A ladder climber? Perhaps in the same way pilots go from gd3 instructor to GA to turboprops to SO, FO, CAPT in narrow body then wide body. The polite term is career progression - more responsibility, more money.
Furthermore, if you knew anything about management, you would know that the way most organizations hire management these days is from “outside” , meaning that internal promotion is rare in commercial organizations because either staff are judges “too valuable” to promote, “too stupid” to promote or they want “fresh outside experience” to reorganize the business. Most people with a business degree mirror my career path. Sadly, to move up, you have to leave.
Furthermore, if you knew anything about management, you would know that the way most organizations hire management these days is from “outside” , meaning that internal promotion is rare in commercial organizations because either staff are judges “too valuable” to promote, “too stupid” to promote or they want “fresh outside experience” to reorganize the business. Most people with a business degree mirror my career path. Sadly, to move up, you have to leave.
Last edited by Sunfish; 14th Feb 2020 at 05:28.
Then kindly move onto a forum where Pilot isn’t in the title.. :-)
Every single manager where I work has been promoted from internally and that has been the case for over 100 years. It works really well ! But as a manager, what would I know ! ??
Squawk:
Then you are very lucky! The normal situation is that senior management has a “use by” date or the organisation is set up to deliberately burn people out and discard them or the management is replaced when the strategy changes.
I was once asked to take on a GM’s job for a certain company. The incumbent, the directors told me, had successfully pulled the company through the 1990 recession, he was a cost cutter. “But now the economy is expanding, we want a new GM who is a business builder” the Directors said to me. -So that was the managers reward for successfully navigating the recession; to be fired and replaced with a salesman. I didn’t take the job.
Every single manager where I work has been promoted from internally and that has been the case for over 100 years. It works really well ! But as a manager, what would I know ! ??
I was once asked to take on a GM’s job for a certain company. The incumbent, the directors told me, had successfully pulled the company through the 1990 recession, he was a cost cutter. “But now the economy is expanding, we want a new GM who is a business builder” the Directors said to me. -So that was the managers reward for successfully navigating the recession; to be fired and replaced with a salesman. I didn’t take the job.
What's all this nonsense got to do with someone making a perfectly normal landing in a chopper on a helipad on a houseboat?
Sunny must be a balloon pilot with all that management experience. Does anyone remember that story? I'm sure the Internet does. Let's see if I can find it...
... here 'tis
... here 'tis
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He spots a man down below and lowers the balloon to shout: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”The man below says: “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude.”
“You must be an engineer” says the balloonist.
“I am” replies the man. “How did you know.”
“Well” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”
The man below says “You must be a manager.”
“I am” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?”
“Well”, says the man, “you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problems. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”
“You must be an engineer” says the balloonist.
“I am” replies the man. “How did you know.”
“Well” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”
The man below says “You must be a manager.”
“I am” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?”
“Well”, says the man, “you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problems. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”
If they had landed a hot air balloon on the house boat, now that would have been newsworthy!
