Management Lessons from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover – Interesting Leadership Article and Perspective

Interesting article on Forbes.com discussing the “Management Lessons From NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover.” What does it take to successfully execute a project of this magnitude? Check out the article, and here are a couple of leadership insights –

“The trick for successfully building complex one-of-a-kind machines where hundreds of thousands of things need to be done exactly right is to expect mistakes,” notes Manning.

“Arrogance has no place in this work,” he writes. “No matter how smart you think you are, if your Mars lander didn’t work, you were probably not smart enough, and if it did, well maybe you just got lucky.”

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