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	+ Home		In This Issue     The Bare Bones of Leadership By Jessica Simmons Sometimes one of the most simple -- and the most human way -- of keeping oneself grounded is not to lose your sense of humor. + Read More         Stories     A Glass Can Be Half Full -- Even in Microgravity By Tom Sutliff The project team's response to this challenge taught me how resilient people and projects can be when you give them the chance. + Read More     Managing the Unexpected By Marty Davis You can go through your whole career and never have someone drop one of your spacecraft. I think that would have been nice. + Read More     Warning: Projects May Be Closer Than They Appear By Colby Africa It was a crazy time. I lost 20 pounds. My team kept asking, 'What happened to our development manager?' + Read More     Cleaning Out the Closet By W. Scott Cameron Like the closet that accumulates all the stuff we buy and never get rid of, we felt our list could stand a little spring cleaning. + Read More         Features     The Morning Meeting By Scott Tibbitts The idea was simple: a short all-hands meeting once a day to maintain the week's action item list. + Read More     Putting Patience to the Test By Ray Morgan I had made some serious errors in judgment, and I was kicking myself mentally while steeling myself for dealing with the repercussions. + Read More         Special Feature     No Launch Before Its Time By Bill Townsend I remember a member of the crew asking me, "Is this normal?" And in my experience, it wasn't. + Read More         Practices     A Collaboration on Collaboration By Brent Cobleigh We learned quickly that we were a group with diverse backgrounds, in every sense of the word. + Read More         Interview     ASK Talks with Dr. Gary Klein Dr. Gary Klein, Chief Scientist of Klein Associates Inc., discusses how stories help to strengthen intuition. + Read More     + Respond Now + Back to Current Issue + Back to top   FROM THE APPL DIRECTOR + A Partnership with Universities By Dr. Edward Hoffman EDITOR IN CHIEF + A Tale of Two Houses: Building on a Foundation of Trust or Mistrust By Dr. Alexander Laufer LESSONS LEARNED + Safety requires strict adherence to procedures. Period! + Search for lessons by topic FEEDBACK + I enjoyed the Galileo project manager "never give up - never surrender" story... + Read more + Send us your feedback
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