Getting Your Boss to YES!

Author By Jim Lara

What are two of the most intimidating discussions you’ll ever have with your Aviation Reporting Executive (ARE)? Likely they are 1) justifying headcount and 2) justifying operating budgets. Those two talks are never fun. Something about spending corporate money brings out the miser in most! So how do you convince your ARE to allocate the

Effective Communications with Your Principal

Author By Jim Lara

Helping our modest size aviation organizations thrive is one of my true passions at Gray Stone Aviation Advisors.  Over half of the NBAA membership fits into this category. Yet, we, as an industry, have failed to aggressively develop leaders in this segment.  I believe this lack of development has led to high turnover rates and a general sub-optimization