Best of Picard Tips

Picard management tip: Initiate positive changes. If not you, who?

Picard management tip: Don't negotiate absurd schedules with engineers. Encourage truth telling and reasonable time estimates.

Picard management tip: Your superiors are just as fallible as you are. It's okay to talk back to them. Just do it respectfully.

Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.

Picard engineering tip: Make it so every subsystem can be found and repaired manually, even if you need to crawl to reach it.

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

Picard management tip: The crew needs to see you calm. If you're frustrated, complain to a confidant in private, then make a decision.

Picard management tip: Data is easier to manage than humans.

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

Picard management tip: Expecting people to work long hours is short-sighted, counter-productive, and potentially dangerous.

Picard management tip: Share the credit. Take the blame.

Picard management tip: Even without game-changing results, experimentation is time well spent.

Picard management tip: Your first impulse will often be wrong, but you have to start somewhere.

Picard management tip: A captain's primary role is to inspire the crew's desire to complete their mission.

Picard management tip: Tell the crew where to go. Let them figure out how to get there.

Picard management tip: No one can relax around Dr. Jekyll after they have met Mr. Hyde.

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 engineering tip: Even if computers can talk now, remember how deeply stupid they are.

Picard management tip: Admitting one's failures is a sign of confidence and strength. It reassures others that failing is okay.

Picard management tip: Say “Thank you”, “Good work”, or “Well done”.

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

Picard life tip: Resolve to make self improvement a habit, a lifestyle, a challenge, that becomes part of who you are all year, every year.

Picard management tip: Take your leisure time seriously. A relaxed captain is a sane captain.

Picard levity tip: Ask him, “What's this on your shirt?” Then touch his nose. pic.twitter.com/VPtqO4x0WE