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Balancing Security and Knowledge Sharing

By Ryan Averbeck, John Day, and G. A. Gaddy The Fall 2007 issue of ASK Magazine generated a lot of discussion among those of us involved in the NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Technology Protection Program.

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Some Safety Lessons Learned

By Bryan O’Connor The proximate causes of an accident and the changes needed to avoid repetition are usually clearer and more readily dealt with than the associated root causes.

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Engaged Workers Boost the Bottom Line at Ames

By Nancy Mangini In spring of 2008, midlevel managers with different professional skills working in different divisions at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, participated in a six-month Strategic Leadership Boot Camp management training program.

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Bidding Your Way to the Launch Pad

By Randii R. Wessen and David Porter One of the many challenges of growing up as an identical twin, as one of us (Wessen) did, is learning how to share.

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Managing the Trauma of a Terminated Project

By Robert K. Hurley and Joseph T. Jimmerson “If you’re going to be a project manager at NASA, you need to be prepared for cancellation.” –Gene Austin, X-33 Space Plane program manager

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Answering the Call: Communicating with Soyuz

By Ed Campion A blind engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, had the vision for a solution to a problem that ultimately required him to fly to Europe to obtain potentially important data on the flight of a Soyuz capsule returning two International Space Station crew members and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott […]

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A Model for Collaboration

By Krisztina Holly As a leader, imagine trying to manage more than 7,000 scientists from eighty-five countries around the world—with their own languages, cultures, and expertise—on a twenty-year collaboration to create the most complex system ever built.

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Unmanning the Fire Lines

By Brent Cobleigh On October 18, 2007, I received an e-mail from Thomas Zajkowski, remote-sensing analyst for the USDA Forest Service’s Remote-Sensing Application Center.

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Management by Wandering Around: A Potent Arrow in the Manager’s Quiver

By Noel W. Hinners One of the great mysteries of life is that very few of those we work for have the least inclination, or possibly the needed skills, to consciously mentor us in the fine art of management.

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