Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success
Rod Pyle
Language: English
Pages: 289
ISBN: B00IA4J9D2
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Launch your business to new heights with out-of-this world innovation
For over half a century, NASA has delivered a continuous stream of innovative accomplishments that have inspired the world. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, the space shuttle pioneering reusable space planes, Mars rovers exploring the red planet--the list goes on. We read the stories and watch the footage, and as impossible as these achievements seem, NASA makes them look easy.
The most innovative organization in history, NASA holds an otherworldly mystique for those of us who look on in awe. But behind every one of NASA's amazing innovations lie carefully managed operations, just like any other organization.
Innovation the NASA Way provides practical, proven lessons that will help you envision the future of your organization with clarity, meet every challenge with tenacity, and manage innovation with groundbreaking creativity.
NASA insider Rod Pyle has used the agency's unique methods for driving innovation to train leaders from eBay, the Federal Reserve, Michelin tires, Conoco/Phillips, and many other Fortune 100 and 500 companies. now, for the first time, NASA's cutting-edge strategies for nurturing and fostering innovation are revealed.
Innovation the NASA Way takes you on a tour through the programs that pushed the envelope on the agency's leadership and managerial capacity. It describes the seemingly impossible tasks NASA personnel faced, explains how each challenge was met with forward-looking management methods, and describes the extraordinary innovations that resulted.
Learn how NASA built the Lunar Module, the first true spaceship; created the Saturn V's F-1 rocket motor, the most powerful ever built; and how it creates partnerships with the new players in space–private entrepreneurs. These are just a few of the projects covered in the book.
Space exploration may be NASA's mission, but its innovative leadership practices are founded on solid, down-to-earth methods anyone can apply, anywhere.
PRAISE FOR INNOVATION THE NASA WAY:
"Pyle insightfully and skillfully draws out the methods and strategies naSa has employed to achieve its lofty goals. It innovates so far outside the box that the box disappears. Pyle suggests its touchstones are boldness, daring, and passion, and he suggests you can bring those traits into your business." -- DON CAMBOU, executive Producer of History Channel's Modern Marvels
"Pyle highlights NASA's key innovation lessons and leaves you with amazing stories you'll want to remember and use in your organization." -- STEVEN FENTRESS, Planetarium Director at Rochester Museum & Science Center
"From building rocket engines to exploring Mars and beyond, Rod Pyle has written a very readable and eminently practical volume that documents the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned from NASA's storied history. To read it is to be inspired to recreate in today's challenging world NASA's daring, boldness and passion." -- STEVEN J. DICK, Former NASA Chief historian
"Fuel your inspiration with this fascinating book explaining the key lessons of NASA's innovation and exploration of space. Pyle's meaingful insights will improve your business." -- LUKAS VIGLIETTI, President, Swissapollo, Swiss Space Association
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Been basically a research role into a contracting and “flying” entity), and thus the Air Force was now working with a new, small, energetic, and largely untried partner. With its experience in the X-1 and follow-on programs, as well as test flight in general, the Air Force provided a bit of its own swagger to the enterprise. The X-15 project would, given its relatively low level of funding, be an efficient, fast-moving venture that was infused with boldness and daring. Great things happened in a.
URGENT CALL One Saturday, an urgent call was transferred to his temporary work area at the North American plant. Borman assumed that it was just another nuisance call from NASA headquarters. It was a hot August weekend in southern California, and the air conditioning at the plant—such as it was—did little to keep up with the intense heat. Borman was already edgy and did not need interference from the top. When he was told that the call was from Deke Slayton, head of the astronaut office, he.
Neptune swam into view three years later in 1989. After passing the planet, the spacecraft headed off to Neptune’s moon Triton as its final destination. The data brought down from the spacecraft at this distance were about one-billionth of a watt in strength, truly a flickering match in the darkness. Notable discoveries included Neptune’s “Great Dark Spot” (long since vanished), and a frigid atmosphere similar in makeup to that of Uranus. After passing the planet, Voyager 2 exited the area.
With an array of spacecraft types. Conceived and exploited numerous practical research projects for the station, which have already led to advances in medical treatment and prevention of disease. With Russia, planning follow-on mission utilizing some existing space station structures. CHAPTER 17 NEWSPACE: CAPITALISM SHINING BRIGHT CHALLENGES Find a role for private industry within a leaner, more cautious government environment. Define an overall mission objective for the agency,.
Shuttle had great passion. Nobody was quite sure if the design would work. The idea seemed outlandish at the beginning—cover the bulk of a huge space plane with fragile little ceramic tiles, and affix them with glue? But the math checked out, the tests confirmed their beliefs, and the passion within them allowed the program to enjoy a high rate of success. Greatness in innovation is never easy. There are countless other examples, some that were mentioned in this book and many more that were.