The Mars Pathfinder: Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"

Pritchett, Price, and Muirhead, Brian

ISBN 10: 0944002749 / ISBN 13: 9780944002742

Published by Pritchett & Associates, Dallas, TX, 1998

About this Item

23 cm, 48, wraps, color illus., some wear and soiling to covers. Subtitled: Hard proof from the NASA/JPL Pathfinder team on how limitations can guide you to breakthroughs.

Seller Inventory # 28362

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mars Pathfinder: Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"
• Publisher: Pritchett & Associates, Dallas, TX
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944002749
• ISBN 13: 9780944002742
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First? Edition. First? Printing.
• Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Space
  • Innovation
  • NASA
  • Space Exploration
  • Telecommunications

About this title

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.