This impatient generation of seafarers: Is it all bad?
What is your attention span today, and why is that relevant to the Shipping Industry?
Coffee time blogs
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Top 3 Deficiencies and Observations over the last 10 years
“Too many changes in the Maritime Industry are causing so many observations and deficiencies!” A common coffee time discussion, isn’t it? Let us identify the common culprits and see whether they have changed with time.
What is dopamine addiction and how we can use it for Maritime Training
Studies show that addiction to Dopamine, the rewarding hormone, is no less than a drug addiction. Here is some perspective on how that affects us as modern day sailors and how we can use it to our benefit.
Young millennial seafarers and what we need to know about them
Things are not always what they seem. Today’s young millennial seafarers pack a ton of possibilities but it will take a number of changes in the industry to tap that potential.
Millennial Seafarers and a new definition of Authority
The way Millennials view authority is vastly different from the generation before them and this shapes a lot of aspects when it comes to shipboard work and Maritime training.
Using Design Thinking on Maritime problems: How we found over 100 probable solutions in 4 hours!
Design thinking, a branch of study which originated in the Stanford University, are used by companies like Apple, Google and GE to solve several tricky problems. Here is how we can apply the same principles to the maritime problems that do not have straight answers.
Top 5 observations we found from more than 50 VDR Analysis reports
VDR Analysis is gaining popularity by the day. A close observation of the ones we had carried out brought out a few very interesting observations about today’s Bridge Team. Here’s our top five.
12 Tips to dramatically improve your Fire Drills
The Saturday-evening-call for Fire drills: something all of us, or at least most of us, have been associated with. Well, there are various ways to
5 ways to get the Bridge Teamwork going: A Master’s take
Bridge Teamwork does not start and end on the Bridge. This is a ship Master’s take on a few apparently insignificant changes that can greatly affect crew morale and foster Bridge teamwork on board.