Former Director or NASA'a Astrophysics Division, and author of the outstanding and organization transforming book How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams, Charles J. Pellerin, describes the importance of building teams to achieve organizational goals. He shares a proven, quantitative, and time and resources saving approach that worked successfully for NASA. He describes the 4-D process that boosted performance in hundreds of teams at NASA. The process was used for the Space Shuttle, space telescopes, robots on Mars, and the mission back to the moon. Charles Pellerin demonstrates how the NASA team building process can be applied to any organization including those who have found traditional training unsuitable or lacking.
Charles Pellerin is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Tuesday, September 28, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Former Director or NASA'a Astrophysics Division, and author of the outstanding and organization transforming book How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams, Charles J. Pellerin, describes the importance of building teams to achieve organizational goals. You will learn:
* Why building successful teams are so critical to project success
* Why engineers, scientists and other technical people resist traditional teambuilding
* How to establish and utilize the NASA 4-D team building process
* How to create a culture of teams and culture in any type of organization
Charles J. Pellerin (photo left) received Goddard Space Flight Center's highest patent related award for inventing a "Two-axis Fluxgate Magnetometer. The design, published in IEEE Transactions, then flew on missions to the planets. He earned a PhD in Astrophysics publishing in Solar Physics and the Astrophysical Journal. Catholic University awarded him their Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science.
After the Harvard Business School's "Program for Management Development," NASA appointed Charlie Director, Astrophysics. He led this program for a decade launching 12 satellites. Charlie invented the Great Observatories Program garnering over $8B for space astrophysics. NASA awarded him an Outstanding Leadership Medal and the American Astronautical Society gave him their highest award, the Space Flight Award.
In 1990, Charlie launched the Hubble Space Telescope with a flawed mirror. He then mounted the space repair mission that fixed the telescope. Hubble is now in its 20th year of operations. NASA awarded him a second Outstanding Leadership Medal, an honor bestowed on less than 50 people (including astronauts) in NASA's History.
Charlie then developed NASA's post-cold-war strategy, and NASA awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, given "when the contribution is so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate."
In 1993, he joined the University of Colorado's (CU) Business School as a professor of Leadership. He taught leadership to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives. His classes had the highest ratings in the college, consistently "A+."
Charlie then founded "4-D Systems" with sales of about $5 Million / year. His coaches won the International Coach Federation's 2007 Prism Award for "enhanced excellence and business achievement . . . with documented return on investment."
How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams is available in English, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, and Bulgarian.
Charlie lives a happy life with his wife in Boulder, Colorado.
He blogs at How NASA Builds Teams Blog
My book review of How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams by Charles J. Pellerin.
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Let's talk with former Director or NASA'a Astrophysics Division, and author of the outstanding and organization transforming book How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams, Charles J. Pellerin, as he describes the importance of building teams to achieve organizational goals. He shares a proven, quantitative, and time and resources saving approach that worked successfully for NASA. He describes the 4-D process that boosted performance in hundreds of teams at NASA> The process was used for the Space Shuttle, space telescopes, robots on Mars, and the mission back to the moon. Charles Pellerin demonstrates how the NASA team building process can be applied to any organization including those who have found traditional training unsuitable or lacking on Blog Business Success Radio.
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