Apollo 13 And The Lessons Of Leadership

Apollo 13 and the Lessons of Leadership. This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories The other night, I had the opportunity to see Tom Hanks again in the movie Apollo 13. It is a gripping story, the chronicles of Apollo 13. For those not old enough to have lived through it, a story of shooting for a landing on the moon, suffering an explosion on the spacecraft on the way to the moon, not landing on the moon, and then limping home to Earth with a mere 1% re-entry angle to save the three lives on the spacecraft. In other words, a “successful failure.” But, it wasn’t a failure. It was a successful demonstration of leadership in a crisis, with teamwork between “headquarters” in Houston and the “field” in the spacecraft. From understanding the plight of the spacecraft, to knowing what needed to be done, to creating a CO2 converter out of materials only on the spacecraft, the flight is a clear lesson in how to do crisis management. Here are the lessons: Of course, businesses are not always in crisis. But that’s not the point. The points are: You see, in the end, it is a question of being a leader while trusting the judgment of the very people who are working for you. And in my experience, the trust is simply not there. […] posts here on is one that I wrote a year ago after watching the Apollo 13 movie again: Apollo 13 and the Lessons of Leadership. I thought it was a revealing look at both the drama of the moment and how the crisis was managed. […] Reply True enough, Andrew. The real challenge of leadership is letting people do what they do best and listen to the results with an ear to the results. And getting the impediments out of the way is a great addition to this list. Thanks. Reply If you ask most leaders ‘Do you trust the people who work for you to deliver?’ I think the answer you would get in the majority of cases is ‘yes, absolutely’. However, quite often, the leaders action is the complete opposite. They micro-control, they restrict, they lay down the law, and they interfere. They think by acting that way they are being a leader. A great leader lets their staff perform. Stop getting in their way, stop looking over their shoulders. In fact, the best thing a leader can do is help the staff become more efficient by removing ‘blockages’ which stop them providing a great service. Andrew Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.