{"product_id":"how-nasa-builds-teams-mission-critical-soft-skills-for-scientists-engineers-and-project-teams-hardback-9780470456484","title":"How NASA Builds Teams; Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams (Hardback) 9780470456484","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow NASA Builds Teams\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles J. Pellerin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780470456484, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional \"touchy-feely\" teambuilding.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in \"How NASA Builds Teams\"—an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods. This \"4-D\" process has boosted team performance in hundreds of NASA project teams, engineering teams, and management teams, including the people responsible for NASA's most complex systems—the Space Shuttle, space telescopes, robots on Mars, and the mission back to the moon. \u003ci\u003eHow NASA Builds Teams\u003c\/i\u003e explains how the 4-D teambuilding process can be applied in any organization, and includes a fast, free on-line behavioral assessment to help your team and the individual members understand each other and measure the key driver of team performance, the social context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoreover, these simple, logical processes appeal strongly to technical teams who eschew \"touchy-feely\" training. Pellerin applies simple, elegant principles from his physics background to the art teambuilding, such as the use of a coordinate system to analyze the characteristics of team performance into actionable elements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author illustrates the teambuilding process with entertaining stories from his decade as NASA's Director for Astrophysics and subsequent 15 years of working closely with NASA and outside business teams. For example, he tells how the processes in the book enabled him to initiate the space mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope's flawed mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFree downloadable resources will help you:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentify your teammates' innate personalities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiagram your culture (And compare it to your customer's)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMeasure the coherency of your project's paradigm (Get this wrong and you will be fired!) and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn to meet people's need to feel valued by you.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther, you can download and use Pellerin's most powerful tool for influencing the outcome of any difficult situation: the Context Shifting Worksheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eUNDERSTANDING AND ANALYZING CONTEXT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1 Think You Can Ignore Context? Hubble’s Flawed Mirror Might Wake You Up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2 Managing Social Context Manages Technical Performance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3 The 4-D System: A Simple Tool to Analyze Team and Individual Performance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eUSING 4-D ASSESSMENTS AND REPRESENTATIVE RESULTS FROM NASA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4 The 4-D Assessment Process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5 NASA’s 4-D Teambuilding Results.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e4-D DIAGNOSTICS: HOW TO COLOR CODE YOUR TEAM’S CONTEXT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6 Using the 4-D System to Color Your Personalities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7 Using the 4-D System to Analyze Cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8 Incoherent Project Mindset Colors? Update Your Resume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSHIFTING THE CONTEXT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9 The Context Shifting Worksheet (CSW).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10 \u003ci\u003eRed Story-Lines\u003c\/i\u003e Limit Team Performance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 11 Manage Your Emotions to Manage Your Team’s Energy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 12 People Need to Feel Appreciated by You.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 13 Mine the Gold in Your Shared Interests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 14 People Need to Feel Included by You.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 15 Building Trustworthy Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 16 Creating the Future You Want.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 17 Your Team Can’t Afford Drama.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 18 Don’t Put Good People in Bad Places.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Hubble’s Legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Business \u0026amp; management [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Business \u0026amp; management\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Business%20\u0026amp;%20management%20%5BKJ%5D%22\"\u003eKJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453495374104,"sku":"9780470456484","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780470456484_228554.jpg?v=1785285123","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-nasa-builds-teams-mission-critical-soft-skills-for-scientists-engineers-and-project-teams-hardback-9780470456484","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}