Picard Tips

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Last Notes

2026-04-05 20:04:32 GMT

Picard diplomacy tip: Videoconference with your mortal enemies. The results may surprise you.

2026-03-28 15:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: The line must be drawn somewhere. It might as well be here.

2026-02-25 19:31:33 GMT

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

2026-02-23 17:13:32 GMT

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

2026-02-17 18:22:32 GMT

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.

2026-02-15 16:04:32 GMT

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

2026-02-14 15:58:31 GMT

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

2026-02-13 21:49:32 GMT

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

2026-02-11 19:31:32 GMT

Picard management tip: It's okay not to know things. Practice saying "I don't know." Go ahead. Say it.

2026-02-10 18:22:32 GMT

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

2026-02-08 16:04:33 GMT

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

2026-02-06 21:49:32 GMT

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

2026-02-04 19:31:32 GMT

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

2026-02-03 18:22:32 GMT

Picard style tip: If you're balding, don't hide it. Own it.

2026-01-30 17:49:33 GMT

Picard leadership tip: If your people are in need of a better example to follow, and if you are confident you can be that example, then consider, really consider, postponing your retirement.

2026-01-29 16:40:31 GMT

Picard management tip: Your orders do not dictate your ideals. Your ideals determine how you interpret your orders.

2026-01-28 15:31:32 GMT

Picard cosmology tip: Six sevenths of all matter is undetectable, so stop thinking you know so much.

2026-01-27 21:22:32 GMT

Picard management tip: If it feels like time is moving at the wrong speed, cancel a few meetings.

2026-01-26 20:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: If you never fail, you aren't going boldly enough.

2026-01-25 19:04:32 GMT

Picard economic tip: The risks of confinement to a single planet exceed the costs of interstellar travel.

2026-01-20 21:22:32 GMT

Picard ethics tip: Target their weapons.

2026-01-19 20:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Don't assume anything is possible or impossible until you've asked the people who will be doing the work.

2026-01-18 19:04:31 GMT

Picard management tip: If you succeed too much and become cocky, recognize it, admit it, and stop it.

2026-01-17 18:58:32 GMT

Picard schooling tip: Don't be too tentative. Have experiences. Be dastardly. Get into trouble.

2026-01-16 17:49:32 GMT

Picard management tip: No good ever comes from checking your first officer's search history.

2026-01-15 16:40:31 GMT

Picard morality tip: The moment you consider yourself morally superior to someone due to your genetics is the moment you prove you are not.

2026-01-14 15:31:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Be willing to laugh at yourself, but unwilling to laugh at your coworkers.

2026-01-08 16:40:32 GMT

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

2026-01-05 20:13:32 GMT

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

2026-01-04 19:04:31 GMT

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

2026-01-03 18:58:32 GMT

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

2026-01-02 17:49:33 GMT

Picard management tip: If anyone on your ship seems perfect, it means you aren't paying enough attention.

2026-01-01 16:40:32 GMT

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.

2025-12-30 17:22:32 GMT

Picard style tip: If you don't have much on top, keep the back and sides short.

2025-12-28 15:04:32 GMT

Picard honesty tip: Don't let anyone else tell you how many lights you see.

2025-12-24 18:31:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Take some alone time. The crew will be fine without you.

2025-12-20 21:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Think.

2025-12-17 18:31:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Once all their basic needs are taken care of, crew members are motivated by the meaningfulness of their work.

2025-12-15 16:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: The secret to garnering respect is courtesy, not bravado.

2025-12-14 15:04:32 GMT

Picard management tip: We all have a primordial instinct to fear the unknown. It is up to each of us to suppress that instinct, to investigate mysteries even in the face of risk.

2025-12-13 21:58:32 GMT

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

2025-12-10 18:31:32 GMT

Picard sociology tip: Those who rise to power by embracing ignorance and fear will only make their people more ignorant and afraid.

2025-12-09 17:22:32 GMT

Picard management tip: If you're unhappy with a crew member's behavior, tell them straight out in private. Don't be passive aggressive.

2025-12-08 16:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Question authority, and permit others to question yours without fear of punishment.

2025-12-07 15:04:32 GMT

Picard management tip: If you only play to your strengths you may look competent but ultimately you will stagnate. Play to your weaknesses as well. Improve with practice. There is so much more to learn.

2025-12-05 20:49:31 GMT

Picard perspective tip: Space is big. Bigger than you think. No, bigger than that.

2025-12-04 19:40:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Give the most interesting assignments to other crew members, not yourself. That's how people stay engaged.

2025-12-03 18:31:33 GMT

Picard management tip: Keep a log of your journey. You will understand better by writing it down.

2025-12-01 16:13:33 GMT

Picard management tip: Try your best to speak in a way the other person will understand, even when it seems nearly impossible.

2025-11-30 17:04:32 GMT

Picard sanity tip: If there are four lights, say there are four lights.

2025-11-29 16:58:31 GMT

Picard management tip: Always be ready to change course.

2025-11-28 15:49:32 GMT

Picard engineering tip: Don't allow the computer to push you around. Let it know who's boss.

2025-11-27 21:40:33 GMT

Picard management tip: At a high level, know how all the machines work.

2025-11-26 20:31:33 GMT

Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.

2025-11-25 19:22:32 GMT

Picard management tip: One mission at a time.

2025-11-23 17:04:32 GMT

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

2025-11-19 20:31:32 GMT

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

2025-11-17 18:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Remember what you liked to play with as a child. Identify the larger, grown-up versions of those toys at work.

2025-11-15 16:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.

2025-11-11 19:22:32 GMT

Picard management tip: If they know their jobs, leave them alone. If they don't, help them learn.

2025-11-10 18:13:31 GMT

Picard coping tip: There is no strict timetable for dealing with loss. Everyone must find their way through grief in their own time.

2025-11-08 16:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.

2025-11-06 21:40:32 GMT

Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.

2025-11-05 20:31:32 GMT

Picard responsibility tip: Don't leave known, wide-scale problems behind for the next generation to solve.

2025-11-03 18:13:31 GMT

Picard civics tip: When a foreign power has wormed its way into your institution's highest office, it is every officer's duty to resist.

2025-11-02 17:04:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.

2025-10-28 15:22:33 GMT

Picard management tip: Take the time to celebrate successfully completing missions. Smile and congratulate the crew.

2025-10-25 19:58:31 GMT

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

2025-10-23 17:40:32 GMT

Picard civics tip: Becoming subservient to an oppressive regime shows profound disrespect to the people being governed.

2025-10-22 16:31:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.

2025-10-19 20:04:32 GMT

Picard technology tip: Sometimes your chief engineer can build new systems that are better than your existing enterprise software.

2025-10-18 19:58:32 GMT

Picard mental health tip: When you lie down to sleep, instead of thinking about your failures, think about your successes.

2025-10-17 18:49:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Add to the group energy of the room, or leave. Don't be bored. Don't be boring.

2025-10-14 15:22:33 GMT

Picard management tip: Know your audience. Display strength to Klingons, logic to Vulcans, and opportunity to Ferengi.

2025-10-13 21:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: You're not supposed to come up with all the ideas yourself. Ask for suggestions.

2025-10-09 17:40:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Bathrooms are unseemly. Keep them out of sight and don't talk about them.

2025-10-08 16:31:32 GMT

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

2025-10-06 21:13:32 GMT

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

2025-10-04 19:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Surround yourself with people whom you would trust with your life.

2025-09-29 16:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: The most successful discussions happen in person, not over phone, email, or view screen.

2025-09-28 15:04:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

2025-09-25 19:40:32 GMT

Picard leadership tip: Respect must be earned. Trust must be earned. A demand for either means the loss of both.

2025-09-20 21:58:31 GMT

Picard management tip: Remember your mission, but be ready to change it.

2025-09-15 16:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Error is the great teacher, memorable and valuable. Embrace it. Let it educate you.

2025-09-13 21:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Know who you really are and what really matters to you. Then let the crew know.

2025-09-12 20:49:33 GMT

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

2025-09-08 16:13:32 GMT

Picard programming tip: A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.

2025-09-06 21:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Regardless of what time travelers tell you, the future hasn't been written yet.

2025-09-05 20:49:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Time is the rarest commodity. Manage yours wisely.

2025-09-04 19:40:32 GMT

Picard management tip: "That's the way it's always been" is never an adequate reason to continue doing something.

2025-09-01 16:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: If it's not ready, and if your enterprise can survive without it, then don't rush it.

2025-08-31 18:04:32 GMT

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

2025-08-27 21:31:32 GMT

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

2025-08-26 20:22:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Don't scoff at unfamiliar suggestions. You don't know as much as you think.

2025-08-25 19:13:33 GMT

Picard morality tip: A sickbay’s only purpose is to heal whoever is unwell, regardless of their rank or station.

2025-08-23 17:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: In an emergency, don't be afraid to let the crew see you in your pajamas.

2025-08-21 15:40:32 GMT

Picard management tip: The best creative solutions should come from your crew, not from you.

2025-08-18 19:13:32 GMT

Picard management tip: Get excited about your work. Your excitement is contagious.

2025-08-17 18:04:33 GMT

Picard relaxation tip: Re-read good books.

2025-08-16 17:58:32 GMT

Picard management tip: When a crew member's behavior changes significantly, inquire and investigate. It could be important.