Apollo

A Lesson on Priorities from the Apollo Guidance Computer

A Lesson on Priorities from the Apollo Guidance Computer

The smallest computer in 1962 weighed about three tons and consumed enough power to light up a city block. So NASA commissioned the engineers at MIT to do something unheard of.

What's On Your Plate?

What's On Your Plate?

One trait we often look for in leaders is the ability to multitask. Smart, capable leaders can handle multiple tasks, priorities and decisions at once, right? No, actually, that’s wrong. There is a limit to the number of things any leaders can process at once.

The Opportunity of Failure

The Opportunity of Failure

Whether it is blamed on error, faulty equipment, circumstances, acts of God or wrongdoing, failures happen all the time. Our culture has become acutely focused in failure on fixing the blame and less and less interested in fixing the problem.