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Leadership Lessons from F.W. Woolworth

Leadership Lessons from F.W. Woolworth

Frank Winfield Woolworth was an American entrepreneur, and founder of the F. W. Woolworth Company. He pioneered the retail variety stores which featured low-priced merchandise selling for 5 and 10 cents.

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.

Leadership Lessons from John Glenn

Leadership Lessons from John Glenn

John Glenn was an American Marine aviator, test pilot, businessman, politician, and one of the seven Mercury astronauts. He was the first person to orbit the earth, circling three times in 1962.

Leadership Lessons from The Wright Brothers

Leadership Lessons from The Wright Brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were two American aviation inventors who are credited with the world first successful airplane. They made their first controlled flight in December 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.