Many of us who work in business aviation wonder if people would be willing to share their travel plans, share a flight together, let others know what they are up to, so they can meet up on trips, share rides from the airport to the hotel and so forth. In other words, will business aviation travel go social? Sharing is already happening in the world of airline travel and the events that drive travel; maybe to ease the pain inflicted on travelers by the airline system. What about personal and business travel in private chartered aircraft? Is it too risky? MORE >>

Coming Spring 2011, Travel Trader: Social Flights empowers customers with a unique form of incentives program by allowing them the opportunity to control their own demographic information and to selectively provide it to interested vendors in exchange for discount coupons. Some Social Flights customers may only state their future travel intentions. Why would a traveler let Facebook sell their information when they can do it themselves? The Social Flights Travel Trader Program ad paradigm will shake the world, literally and figuratively. Pull, Don’t Push! MORE >>

Yet, the vast majority of “true and complete” Value of travel is the human experience and the value of relationships, communities, and their actions together. The only reason that Travel exists is being unceremoniously tossed out on the tarmac…. I am reading  The New Capitalist Manifesto  by  Umair Haque  in preparation for  SIBOS 2011  where I will have an opportunity to join in a  common conversation. will be speaking on a panel called New Economies along with several other distinguished presenters (see Below). New Economies = The Values. The Sun delivers value to the Earth. MORE >>

Business Factors Change Factors Disruptive Factors Media Factors Strategic Factors Systemic Factors advertising business business intelligence circles college college friends communications marketing company headquarters Concert data flight google home intelligence data location nascar races purpose recreation seasonal recreation set social town friends travel travel game whileSocial Flight  is unique in its purpose of organizing communities of people into powerful collectives who can influence markets, vendors, and especially prices. Why Google Plus? by geographic location. MORE >>

The challenge to those who travel with such leaders will be to trust and support the vision and the system. . The rate of change is increasing. The results of change are transforming every business model, structure and more importantly beliefs about business. Yet most managers and leaders do not understand what transformation truly means. Transformation has become a popular, overused and misunderstood word within organizations in the twenty-first  century. . However, few changes are truly transformational. However, while all transformation is change, not all change is transformation. MORE >>