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1 online resource |
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Intro; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Foreword by General Duane Cassidy; Preface: The Compelling Need For You To Lead; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: USING THIS BOOK, YOUR FLIGHT DATA FILE; Your Flight Data File; This Book's Mission; The 4P Leadership Performance Balance; Program: The PAPA Effective Execution System; The Countdown of Purposeful Performance Principles to Guide Execution; Purposeful Performance Principles; Practical, Not Theoretical; The Content Intent: Story Centered; The Subsystem of Chapter Structure; PART I PURPOSE: THE WHY; 12 Choose the Hard |
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Purposeful Performance Principle 12: Actively seeking and embracing difficult challenges gives powerful initial direction, informs the vision, and encourages the team. We Choose; That Vision Thing; Accepting the Challenge; Why Take the Risk?; Pause for a Collective Courage Top Off; A Mach-25 Commute Is Still Just a Commute; Tough Targets; Max Q: Push on Through; Energizing the Team; Support and Encouragement for the Choosers of the Hard; The Common Thread: Courage to Try; 11 Make the Mission Matter |
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Purposeful Performance Principle 11: A meaningful cause in service to others inspires team members to fully commit to mission accomplishment. Cheerful Dedication; The Mission That Matters: Service to Others; Fly It; Live It; Ignition ... and ... Liftoff!; No Wheel Spinning, a Caution; Contagious Enthusiasm: The KidSat Payload; "Light This Candle!"; Aspirational Vigor; PART II PEOPLE: THE WHO; 10 Work the Matrix; Purposeful Performance Principle 10: Constant care of the matrix of both internal and external relationships amplifies team unity and leverages effective collaboration |
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What's a Leader's Real Job?Building Nodes: Developing Individual Team Members; Respect: A Nearly Surreal Experience; Recognition and Strengthening: The Space Shuttle Seamstress; Forging Links: Promoting Relationships; Pouring the Cohesion Glue: Unity; A Matrix to the Nth Power; 9 Build Total Trust; Purposeful Performance Principle 9: More than any single factor, a high-trust culture enables capturing people's best efforts and contributions to meet the most challenging commitments.; Poignant Goodbyes; Trusting Your Life to Your Team; First-Order Requirement: The Prime Directive |
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Zeroth-Order Requirement: TrustworthinessNo Bad Apples; The Commander Sets the Tone; Exercising Capable Humility; The Check-Six Mindset; Dream Crews; Trust Your Ground Team; PART III PERSPECTIVE: THE HOW; 8 Balance the Orbit; Purposeful Performance Principle 8: A positive yet reality-grounded perspective sets the stage for highest team member engagement, productivity, and results.; Connected to a Billion; Keep It Light, Even While Dealing with the Serious; Building in Pressure-Relief Valves; Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously: Reactive Version; Bounce Right Back; Fit for the Work |
| Summary |
Learn and apply scores of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader and astronaut. You should feel the "need to lead!" In today's business world, our teams face daunting challenges in producing real results supporting a greater purpose. Your company, team, community, and family count on you to exercise meaningful, execution-oriented leadership. If you do, you will succeed in your Missions that Matter. As a leader in the dynamic, stressful, and sometimes dangerous endeavor of human space exploration, Astronaut Rick Searfoss has had many unique experiences. However, the success principles he applied in commanding the most complex and successful human space research mission ever are universal. They apply to any venture. The inspiration for "Liftoff" came when Colonel Searfoss met Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, who counseled, "You've got over twenty-five years of experience in what American businesses need more than anything else: leadership and teamwork. Share it." Since then, Colonel Searfoss has done just that, as a noted leadership speaker and consultant. "Liftoff" shares the keen insights of an astronaut commander leading the way. It will enable you to: Employ a proven, balanced-leadership model in support of a greater purpose. Drive stellar operational results with a comprehensive, objective-centric execution system. Apply a countdown of twelve purposeful performance principles for outstanding outcomes. Strengthen your ability to lead and perform at the front lines to achieve mission success. The author also shares a myriad of thrilling, inspiring, and relevant stories, told from the extraordinary perspective of one of a mere handful of humans who've ever been in space. Should you launch your leadership to the highest level possible? Absolutely, so let's "light this candle" and lift off to success! |
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Leadership.
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Management.
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Teams in the workplace.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Astronauts -- United States -- Biography
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management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Motivational.
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Astronauts
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Interpersonal relations
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Leadership
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Management
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Teams in the workplace
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United States
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cassidy, Duane, writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781630476632 |
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1630476633 |
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