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45 Years of Leadership in Outer Space

Coaching Tip

public''s concern of USSR domination of America through its control of outer space, engineering college attendance expanded throughout America.while America searched for a leader in the presidential election of 1960. . . Armstrong, Edwin E. The Photograph was taken by Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong took this photograph of Col.

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Turning a Vision into Reality

Great Leadership By Dan

There was no International Space Station (or any space station) and no Space Shuttle, and Neil Armstrong had not yet set foot on the Moon. Lessons from the Earth to the Moon When I was younger, the space race was in full swing. I am too young to remember any of the Mercury or Gemini missions, but I do remember many of the Apollo missions.

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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. He said that in the years following Kennedy’s articulation of that goal, NASA engineers would periodically hit a major roadblock and declare the goal impossible. And here we are, a little over fifty years later.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

Eight years and $24 billion later ($150 billion in today’s terms), Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon as 600 million people watched on their televisions. At the time, those charged with achieving the goal had questions as to whether it could be done. The landing has been called the greatest technological achievement in human history.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. People are suffering from a crisis of meaning, and not in small part because the definitions of meaning have been re-engineered by a culture confused about it itself.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

Armstrong’s Killer App. Edwin Howard Armstrong was a science prodigy. In 1934, the same year that the FRC became the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Armstrong was perfecting a new radio technology that offered superior reception: “high fidelity.” Steve Jobs was the Baby Boomer version of Armstrong.

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Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities

Harvard Business Review

These ventures are unified in their vision — really more of an obsessive quest — for a more sustainable and resilient future for humanity, executed through a mixture of brilliant engineering and out-of-the-box thinking. Steve Jobs was known for berating employees and suppliers in unprintable language.