Leadership Moments from NASA: Achieving the Impossible - Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth Howell
Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth PhD Howell, Elizabeth Howell
Category: Science
Tags: Science, Misc. Non-fiction
Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the organizational culture, leadership styles, and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight, to share the lessons they learned from critical moments where they took on seemingly insurmountable challenges. How did they prioritize? How did they resolve differences? How did they decide what to do when no one had done it before? How did they build highly competent teams? How did they build organizational resilience? How did they fight complacency and rebuild a culture of safety and innovation? Through interviews with famous leaders such as Apollos Gene Kranz, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions Joe Rothenberg, astronaut maker George Abbey, and former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, this book shows how NASA recovered from tragedy and adversity, and how it developed a culture of competency t
