Picard Tips

Picard management tip: Work should be useful, stimulating, and challenging, not wasteful, tedious, nor impossible.

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Picard management tip: For each command, assign it to one person, or ask for a volunteer. Don't ask a crowd to take an action.

Picard management tip: Make it so the crew feel welcome and appreciated. Remember there are other starships they could transfer to.

Picard management tip: Give your crew the best technology available and you'll be amazed what they can do for your enterprise.

Picard management tip: Know when to put on a happy face. It's part of adulthood, and essential for command.

Picard Shakespeare tip: The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Picard management tip: When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.

Picard management tip: If people accuse your organization of endangering people who wear red shirts, put on a damn red shirt every day.

Picard management tip: Be patient with crew members' idiosyncrasies. They aren't machines. Well, most of them.

Picard management tip: When you stand up, straighten your shirt.

Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.

Picard programming tip: The first version of any software will be buggy. That's why so many holodeck programs try to kill you.

Picard management tip: If you lose one crew member, mourn appropriately. If the whole ship explodes, don't worry; time travel will fix it.

Picard management tip: Take vacations.

Picard management tip: Tolerate failure, not incompetence. Learn the difference.

Picard technology tip: An advanced system isn't always easy to use. Improve the interface, or try pushing buttons at random.

Picard management tip: If you're not sure what to say, take a deep breath and a dramatic pause. Maybe somebody else will talk first.

Picard management tip: Make it sound like you know what you're doing, even if you're just picking a direction.

Picard management tip: Humility without confidence is sheepishness. Confidence without humility is arrogance.

Picard dating tip: No kissing until after you've faced mortal peril together.

Picard management tip: Hire aliens. It's no big deal.

Picard management tip: Avoid euphemisms. Call a thing what it really is.

Picard strategy tip: Pick your battles. Fight injustices before annoyances.

Picard management tip: You're going to meet some buffoons and scoundrels. Try to be the better person.

Picard management tip: Stirring up competition between crew members is the opposite of your job.

Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.

Picard artistry tip: Lacking innate talent at a skill doesn't mean you should stop. On the contrary, it means you need to practice.

Picard management tip: When you hear yourself start to raise your voice, stop, take a breath, smile, then speak politely.

Picard management tip: Leave the bridge sometimes. Other people can handle things fine without you.