The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"; An Employee Handbook on Innovation. Hard Proof From the NASA/JPL Pathfinder Team on How Limitations Can Guide You to Breakthroughs

Pritchett, Price and Muirhead, Brian

ISBN 10: 0944002749 / ISBN 13: 9780944002742

Published by Pritchett & Associates, Inc, 1998

About this Item

[6], 84, [6] pages. Illustrations (color). Price Pritchett is a business advisor, speaker, and author specializing in mergers, culture, and organizational change. In 1974, he founded the Dallas-based Pritchett & Associates (now PRITCHETT, LP), the first firm in the U.S. to specialize in merger integration strategy. Pritchett's work in mergers and change management spawned a popular series of small, tightly written handbooks covering an array of topics including mergers, large scale change, leadership, culture, plus personal and organizational performance. There's a new market battle cry being sounded around the world: Faster-Better-Cheaper. Organizations everywhere are trying to pick up speed, improve output, and do it all for less money. Actually, "improvement" per se isn't too hard to come by with all of today's technological advancements. The tricky part comes in doing things faster, better, and cheaper all at the same time. That takes creativity. Ingenuity. Innovation. To help your employees grow in this regard, they need role models. Good examples. It helps greatly to see living proof of "faster-better-cheaper" in action. The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper" provides that proof, and breaks it down into 13 high-impact guidelines your employees can use to drive your organization to spectacular success. Co-authored with Brian Muirhead, Flight Systems Manager of the JPL Mars Pathfinder Team, this book shows how a small group of dedicated people-tapping into the spirit of ingenuity and innovation-proved "faster-better-cheaper" works in deep space as well as it does on Earth. Most important, the book draws the "faster-better-cheaper" business messages out of this intriguing story, and shows your employees how to apply them in your organization.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"; An Employee Handbook on Innovation. Hard Proof From the NASA/JPL Pathfinder Team on How Limitations Can Guide You to Breakthroughs
• Publisher: Pritchett & Associates, Inc
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944002749
• ISBN 13: 9780944002742
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Innovation
  • NASA
  • Space Exploration

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Synopsis

 The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"  delivers 15 key points on achieving the ultimate goal of business "faster-better-cheaper". This enjoyable handbook uses the Mars Pathfinder mission as a case study. Learn how to apply the same eye for innovation that allowed the JPL team to complete this successful operation in 1/2 the time and with 1/15 the money of the Viking mission that preceded it.

Use this handbook to help you:

• Set goals that make you stretch
• Embrace eccentricity
• Let limitations guide you to breakthroughs
• Invite different perspectives
• Plan . . . and improvise

About the Author

Price Pritchett is Chairman of Pritchett, LLC, a Dallas-based consulting, training and publishing firm. For 30 years he has been advising CEOs, presidents, and other senior executives on a wide range of strategic matters related to merger integration and major organizational change.

Price holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in psychology, and is recognized internationally as a leading authority on the dynamics of change in the workplace. His 26 books and handbooks have sold over 10 million copies, making him one of the best-selling business authors in the U.S.

Brian Muirhead lead the design, development and launch of the flight system for the Pathfinder mission to Mars and was named Project Manager upon the mission's successful landing. He has a MS in Aeronautics from Caltech and has worked on space and technology projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1978.