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Tag Archives: Failure
Apollo Leadership Reflections: A Rough Path Leads To The Stars
Three men died on January 27th, 1967. They suffocated in the Command Module of Apollo 1, not in the depths of space, or the surface of the moon, but on Launch Pad 34, at Cape Kennedy, Florida. They died not … Continue reading
Leadership Reflections from Apollo at 50: Chapter 5 – Simulation & Testing
Today i am sharing a full draft chapter from my upcoming Social Age Guidebook on Apollo, which consists of a series of leadership reflections. It’s part of #WorkingOutLoud. There is one discipline that Apollo progressed with remarkable vigour: developing hardware … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Apollo at 50, Astronaut, Failure, Neil Armstrong, Simulation, Technology, Testing
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Leadership Reflections from Apollo at 50: Failure, Complexity, and Control
This post is #WorkingOutLoud, sharing a draft chapter from my upcoming Social Age Guidebook on ‘Apollo: Leadership Reflections from the Space Race’. It’s not proofed or finalised yet, so please treat it kindly. “Failure is not an option” is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Apollo at 50, complexity, Control, Engineering, Failure, Gene Kranz, Moon, Moon Landings, Saturn V, Systems
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Loops of Leadership
Engineers describe two types of system: ‘open’ and ‘closed’ loops. In an open loop system, there are inputs, and outputs, but no feedback. The systems presses on regardless. In a closed loop system, part of the output is fed back, … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
Tagged Decision Making, Engineering, Failure, Feedback, Leadership, Social Leadership, Systems
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The New York Dereliction Walk: Failure, Innovation, and Social Movements for Change
Things change: the cities, towns, and rural landscapes that we live within do not form a passive backdrop to our actions, but rather cast a sharp shadow from them. Today i am sharing my full notes and research for ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in Change
Tagged Change, Coffee, Dereliction, Failure, Grand Central Station, Innovation, New York, Stonewall Inn, The High Line, Walking
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Apollo
The Saturn 5 rocket, the one that lofted Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, into space and set them on the path to the moon, had more than three million parts to it. It’s sometimes reckoned to be the most complex machine … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Apollo Landings, Buzz Aldrin, complexity, Exploration, Failure, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, Rockets, Saturn V, Space, Systems
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12 Modes of Innovation
Arguably, there is only one definition of ‘innovation’, which must read something like ‘to create something outside a known frame of understanding’: for me there is something about looking beyond the frames and context that we know, and looking through … Continue reading
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