3 Principles to Achieve Career Success and Happiness: It was my recent pleasure to be invited to be the first Arab professional to present a workshop at Dubai Sports Council as part of the Arab Professional Forum. This new initiative is a collaboration between Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. I had the opportunity to meet many interesting and innovative individuals during the interactive training session, and to speak about one of my favorite topics: how to achieve success and happiness in your career.
I believe the basic principles for success and happiness in our working lives can be put into three categories: clarity, passion, and commitment. We can define career success to be how quickly someone makes it up the corporate ladder. However, it’s vital to remember that success means more than just making money for a clear majority of professionals. Their primary motivation is to be a pioneer, a creator, and an innovator in their chosen field. This requires clarity of vision: Setting goals with the help of a personal mission statement and following a continuous development plan that monitors progress are essential tools to make this happen. Investing in continuous personal development as well as being in alignment with your organization’s vision and strategy is also crucial.
The second vital principle is passion. Wanting to make an impact means having an unwavering belief in your purpose and mission, and from this comes the internal strength to do whatever is necessary to make it a reality. It is impossible to work long hours with enthusiasm without passion, so we must do things that excite us in order to be successful and happy.
Thomas Edison said, “Genius Is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration”, which leads to the final success principle: hard work. No amount of desire will create your future, an incredible amount of hard graft and perseverance are required.
Finally, as a leader of a successful global organization and someone responsible for setting strategy and motivating employees, I must mention the importance of drivers for high performing businesses. It’s crucial for those in a position of power to engage with their employees and to motivate them as best they can. Every member of our team has a role to play, and hopefully, by exceeding our goals, we can all achieve career success and happiness.
UAS Co-Owner/Founder and Executive President Mohammed Husary with members of the Arab Professionals Forum at Dubai Sports Council
2021 saw business aviation demand flourish and enjoy a recovery that many wouldn’t have dared to dream. But the rise of the Omicron variant at the end of the year caused many countries to return to tight travel restrictions. Now at the beginning of 2022, it seems that we are returning to more international travel but to make assumptions about what could potentially happen throughout the year ahead is folly. What we can do is use the experience of 2021 to predict some business travel trends that will strengthen in 2022. Notwithstanding that travelers and operators will continue to demand enhanced efficiency for their business operations, here are three trends I think we will see a lot more of this year.
African Aviation and COVID-19: Like everywhere in the world, Africa’s citizens and economies are feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries are locked down, with many declaring states of emergency, and focusing their efforts on containing any spread and…
The importance of moving towards ‘mobile-first’ technologies to stay relevant and effective as a business in today’s market cannot be understated. Recent years has seen a marked change in consumer behavior, rapid innovation in technology, demand for more engaging communication,…
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Mitch Launius
Instructor Pilot for 30 West IP
Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
Dudley King
President and Founder, FlightBridge
Dudley is the Founder and President of FlightBridge, which he established in 2011 and has been focused on technology solutions for the private aviation industry since 2006. Since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1988, he has worked with an array of companies listed anywhere from VentureWire to the Fortune 100. A rare blend of executive, entrepreneur, and consultant, Dudley’s executive roles have included acting CIO positions for several companies and tech advisory services to CEOs trying to rebuild their technology organizations or looking for an external, professional point of view. Highly skilled at deeply understanding his customer’s business challenges and drawing from a long and varied experience in information technology services, Dudley excels at designing technology solutions to solve their problems.
Dr. Paulo Alves
Global Medical Director, Aviation Health, Medaire
Paulo has extensive experience in medical advisory in the aviation industry. As a cardiologist, he provides technical guidance and analysis for MedAire’s MedLink medical advisory service and is MedAire’s liaison with civil aviation regulators and industry associations. Paulo worked with Varig Brazilian Airlines for 23 years, 10 of which were spent as General Medical Manager. A member of the MedAire Medical Advisory Board, Paulo is also President of the Ibero-American Aerospace Medical Association, a member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Safety Committee, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), and a Fellow of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. Throughout his illustrious career, Paulo has held industry leadership roles including Chairperson of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee, President of the Airlines Medical Directors Association, President of the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine and was a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group from 2002 to 2006.
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