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    How NASA Builds Teams (Review and Analysis of Pellerin's Book)
    How NASA Builds Teams (Review and Analysis of Pellerin's Book)
    How NASA Builds Teams (Review and Analysis of Pellerin's Book)
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    How NASA Builds Teams (Review and Analysis of Pellerin's Book)

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    The must-read summary of Charles J. Pellerin's book: "How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams".

    This complete summary of the ideas from Charles J. Pellerin's book "How NASA Builds Teams" shows that team building must take account of the personalities and expertise of the individual members. Scientists and technical experts often respond to a different type of team building to arts people. Through a great deal of trial and error, NASA has developed the 4-D team building strategy, which has proved very successful. 4-D can also be applied to leadership training. Every team must be Cultivating (so that everyone is feeling appreciated), Including, Visioning (everyone must think about the team’s future) and Directing (willing to take action to further the team’s success). This summary explains how the system used by NASA (an organisation with massively high stakes, both in terms of human life and money) can be applied to any organisation.

    Added-value of this summary: 
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    • Understand key concepts 
    • Increase your business knowledge 

    To learn more, read "How NASA Builds Teams" and discover the key to building the best teams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateFeb 15, 2013
    ISBN9782806246769
    How NASA Builds Teams (Review and Analysis of Pellerin's Book)

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      How Nasa Builds Teams by Charles J. Pellerin

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      Summary of How Nasa Builds Teams (Charles J. Pellerin)

      1. The basics of the 4-D system

      2. How NASA uses the 4-D System

      3. Basic 4-D diagnostic tools

      4. How to use 4-D to shift context for your teams

      Book Abstract

      MAIN IDEA

      Every successful organization needs high performance teams in order to compete and succeed. Yet the technical people who often make up these teams don’t generally respond well to the traditional touchy-feel style of team building activities – they’re not the kind of people who like sitting around campfires in the middle of nowhere singing Koombiya and toasting marshmallows. If you’re trying to build a team of scientists and engineers, a different approach is needed.

      NASA recognized this problem in the early-1990s. The catalyst for this was the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 with a flawed mirror. In the aftermath of this very public debacle, NASA formed another team to mount a space repair mission which was ultimately highly successful. This second team used the 4-D Team Building Process shown at right.

      In 2001, NASA extended the 4-D System right across the board. As of late-2009, more than 500 NASA project and engineering teams involving more than 2,700 scientists

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