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Pushing the Envelope

A show about the key elements of business success that help you push the performance boundaries of your business.

Pushing the Envelope with Chuck Gumbert emblem

Where the phrase comes from

Testing the limits

“Pushing the Envelope” was first used in the early days of testing high-performance aircraft in the high desert of southern California. The envelope is the engineering design limit, or flight envelope, of a particular aircraft.

Test pilots physically tested, or “pushed,” those limits to expand the aircraft’s capabilities. As a former F-14 pilot, and later a business leader, Chuck uses the phrase to push the current performance boundaries of the businesses he works with.

Example of an aircraft flight envelope diagram
An example of an aircraft flight envelope.

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