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Olivier Rouchard

Olivier Rouchard

Protect Yourself — Protect Others — Don't Be Negligent: Fatigue Risk Management

Protect Yourself — Protect Others — Don't Be Negligent: Fatigue Risk Management

Tiredness isn't weakness — it's a hazard you can measure and manage. Fatigue Risk Management, as aviation does it, for shift workers and the chronically busy.

Normalization of Deviance: How Good Teams Drift Into Disaster

Normalization of Deviance: How Good Teams Drift Into Disaster

Every shortcut that 'worked last time' becomes the new normal — until it doesn't. Normalization of Deviance: how good teams drift toward their own Challenger moment.

Bad Days Come From 5 Slices of Swiss Cheese (the Safety Model, Not the Snack).

Bad Days Come From 5 Slices of Swiss Cheese (the Safety Model, Not the Snack).

Disasters don't come from one big mistake. They come from small holes lining up. The Swiss Cheese Model: how pilots catch a bad week before it cascades.

How to "Hand Off" Anything in 30 Seconds

How to "Hand Off" Anything in 30 Seconds

A dropped ball is almost never a skill failure — it's a handoff that never happened. The 30-second briefing pilots use: status, outstanding, threats.

18 Days Into 🚢 Ship 30 for 30. Here's What Actually Stuck.

18 Days Into 🚢 Ship 30 for 30. Here's What Actually Stuck.

A pilot's 5 lessons from 18 days of shipping daily: the system beats motivation, write what you know, forget the number, formatting is a multiplier.

What Could Go Wrong Today? Ask Like a Pilot.

What Could Go Wrong Today? Ask Like a Pilot.

Most bad days don't ambush you — they warn you first. Threat and Error Management is the pilot's habit for naming the threat (and the error) before it bites.

Every Flight Is Full of Errors. None of Them Reach You.

Every Flight Is Full of Errors. None of Them Reach You.

The small error you'll never catch alone, a second set of eyes catches in seconds. Why pilots cross-check everything out loud — and you should too.

Speak Up Before It's Too Late: The Cockpit's 4-Step Ladder

Speak Up Before It's Too Late: The Cockpit's 4-Step Ladder

Watching a bad call unfold and saying nothing? Pilots use PACE — Probe, Alert, Challenge, Emergency — to speak up before it's too late.

Clear Communication Is a Myth. Confirmation Is the Real Skill.

Clear Communication Is a Myth. Confirmation Is the Real Skill.

Trusting that people understood you is naive. Clear communication isn't the skill — confirmation is. The two-second cockpit habit that ends 'I thought you said…'.

You Don't Want to Be the Most Dangerous Leader — the One Nobody Dares to Question

You Don't Want to Be the Most Dangerous Leader — the One Nobody Dares to Question

The most dangerous pilot in the sky is the one nobody dares question. How the authority gradient silences the truth — and how to flatten it.

Run Your Home Like a Flight Crew: The System That Made Flying Safe

Run Your Home Like a Flight Crew: The System That Made Flying Safe

Most homes run on one exhausted captain — a single point of failure. The cockpit system that fixed it, and made flying safe, works at home too.

Top of Descent: When Planning Beats Reacting

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Top of Descent: When Planning Beats Reacting

Pilots start their descent 120 miles out, not over the runway. Find the Top of Descent points in your day and plan the landing before you need it.