Optimizing Luck: What the Passion to Succeed in Space Can Teach Business Leaders on Earth. This item is unavailable.Optimizing Luck: What the Passion to Succeed in Space Can Teach Business Leaders on Earth

Charged with running Science Operations for NASA and playing an integral part in one of the world's most successful international astronomy satellite projects, Meylan and Teays share their first-hand experience of how leaders and managers, by example and practice, can establish and reinforce luck-optimizing habits of behaviour with direct reports, peers and team mates, and across the organization. In this in-depth business profile, the authors take an analytical approach to understanding what it takes to truly succeed in business regardless of changing circumstances, competitive interference, near-disastrous breakdowns in processes, and more than the occasional human failing.

Thomas Meylan, PhD PhD is president of Digital Clones, Inc., and author of EvolvingSuccessr books, articles, and audio programs in business leadership. He served as director of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Data Analysis Center, earning the NASA Group Achievement Award. Terry Teays, PhD president of Teays Consulting, Inc., and assistant director of the Maryland Space Grant Consortium at Johns Hopkins University, is an independent evaluator of science education products and programs who has served on more than 30 NASA peer review panels. As supervisor of telescope operations on the IUE project, he was recognized with the NASA Group Achievement Award.