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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

By Sidney Dekker Publisher: ASHGATE ISBN: 978-0-7546-4826-0 When faced with a human error problem, you may be tempted to ask ‘Why didn’t they watch out better? How could they not have noticed?’. You think you can solve your human error problem by telling people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a… Continue reading The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

Make Ideas Happen

By Scott Belsky Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover ISBN-10: 159184312X ISBN-13: 978-1591843122 Most of us have been in situations where either ourselves or somebody else had a really brilliant idea, it was put forward and the next year was spent by discussing with our peers, boss or the public at large why it would be impossible to… Continue reading Make Ideas Happen

Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation

By Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN-13: 9781591398004 ISBN: 1591398002 Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, most projects… Continue reading Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation

The Tuskegee Airmen

By Joseph Caver, Jerome Ennels, Daniel Haulman Publisher: NewSouth Books ISBN: 978-1-58838-244-3 With the passage of time ever new generations of aviation professionals and enthusiast step on the stage and they can be excused if some of the previously well known details of aviation history are a bit obscure or even totally unknown for them.… Continue reading The Tuskegee Airmen

Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – EC White Paper

For many years now aviation lived under the shadow of demands that envisaged solving environmental and congestion problems by capping aviation growth. Misguided and economically damaging as this idea was, it was getting traction in various fora in Europe, sending shivers across the industry. With the publication of the EC White Paper entitled “Roadmap to… Continue reading Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – EC White Paper

Federal Airways Manual of Operations 1941 – Chapter C, Airway Traffic Control Section

I do not know about you but I love old books. If nothing else, thinking about the many people and many hands that have owned and touched such an old volume feels like a travel back in time. But reading some of them and comparing the style and content to our contemporary reality is also… Continue reading Federal Airways Manual of Operations 1941 – Chapter C, Airway Traffic Control Section

Flightpath – A great tool for better communications in aviation

For most of us, Cambridge University Press needs no introduction. Their name is synonymous with innovation and quality. When they decide to publish a book to improve aviation communications you can be sure it will be something special. Roger-Wilco was granted an exclusive opportunity to review a pre-production version of Flightpath, Cambridge University Press’ brand… Continue reading Flightpath – A great tool for better communications in aviation

The Grand Design

By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Publisher: Bantam Books ISBN : 978-0-553-80537-6 If you have read and liked “A Short History of Time” from Hawking, you will love his new book, “The Grand Design”, co-written with California Institute of Technology physicist Mlodinow. Few scientists combine the ability to come up with totally new ideas of… Continue reading The Grand Design