High Velocity Leadership The Mars Pathfinder Approach to Faster, Better, Cheaper

Project Manager for NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, Brian Muirhead assembled a team that would have to build a spacecraft and land it on Mars "Faster, Better, Cheaper" than the previous Mars effort twenty years earlier.The team overcame the odds by discarding the familiar and replacing it with imaginative new technology, a highly unusual organizational structure, and a score of innovative business solutions ranging from the geography of the workplace to ways of speeding up procurement to an intuitive syle of decision making on the run. High Velocity Leadership is a management book wrapped in a powerful, real-world adventure story. In 2004, Brian Muirhead was appointed NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Chief Engineer.