Comparing the personality type of an entrepreneur/disruptor to an airline pilot shows a pretty low level of our collective personality/self awareness.

all you really have to do is imagine that you are trying to create a system of screening applicants for a job that requires a high level of standardization adherence. Do you really want someone coming into your organization that has the attitude “I know better?”

most of us will never face the situation that requires a dramatic thinking outside the box, to save our lives and of course the 150+ lives behind us. There’s a reason Captain Al Haynes got to do speaking engagements for decades after his incident.

just like the hogan, you are definitely weeding out some really great pilots, but you are also ensuring that those who make it through more closely resemble the widget you are trying to plug into the machine. It shouldn’t require a college degree to understand that basic hiring principal