Liftoff: An Astronaut Commander's Countdown For Purpose Powered Leadership by Ri

Description: Liftoff by Rick Searfoss Learn and apply scores of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader and astronaut. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Learn and apply scores of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader and astronaut. Author Biography Colonel Rick Searfoss is one of a select few ever to command a human space mission. Excelling as a leader, he graduated first in his USAF Academy class and served a distinguished military, NASA, and aerospace industry career. He now shares his expertise worldwide as an inspiring, high-content professional speaker. Table of Contents Introduction: Using this Book, Your Flight Data FilePART I. PURPOSE: THE WHY12. Choose the Hard11. Make the Mission MatterPART II. PEOPLE: THE WHO10. Work the Matrix9. Build Total Trust PART III. PERSPECTIVE: THE HOW8. Balance the Orbit7. Tether to PrinciplesPART IV. PROGRAM: THE WHAT, WHERE, AND WHEN6. Create Objective-Centric Operations5. Pace It Perfectly4. Prepare Diligently and Constantly3. Drive Awareness and Learning2. Persist to Prevail 1. Propel Accountability for ResultsSummary: Liftoff to Success Promotional A treasure trove of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader, astronaut, and commander. Long Description Learn and apply scores of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader and astronaut. Promotional "Headline" A treasure trove of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader, astronaut, and commander. Excerpt from Book Staying Alive at Mach 18 3:20 a.m. on March 17, 1996, about 150 miles abeam North Carolina, 360,000 feet high. Were headed northeast in Space Shuttle Atlantis at over 12,000 miles per hour, approaching eighteen times the speed of sound. Im a happy rocket man. The three main engines, my responsibility since Im in the right seat, purr along splendidly. Everythings great---until instantly it isnt! Suddenly the annoyingly loud warning alarm bleats out. A fraction of a second later our ascent CAPCOM, another pilot astronaut in Mission Control, calls, "Atlantis, we show a system-three hydraulic leak. P-L-T, execute Hydraulic Leak procedure." Sure enough, hydraulic fluid is draining away like an open spillway at Hoover Dam. Weighing three times my normal weight from the acceleration and wearing bulky multilayer pressure suit gloves, I gingerly reach for the correct switch. Lined up in a row, each of the three isolation switches is only an inch apart. Big glove or not, better grab the correct one, and only one. If I inadvertently shut down the wrong system, we all die. The "power steering" for Atlantis--- hydraulically driven engine bells---works fine with two systems, but not with just one. With fluid lost in one system, an incorrect isolation of either remaining system means game over. Corkscrewing through the sky out of control is not how I want to end my day---or my life. After that most critical step, I quickly complete the rest of the procedure. Though potentially just an inch away from dying, we were in reality a long way from that outcome. I had performed that same procedure hundreds of times in high-fidelity simulators, even wearing the exact same type gloves. It was so ingrained in my mind I couldve done it in my sleep. I dont think my heart rate even increased while executing what Id been so prepared to do. In the heat of that battle, I felt acutely aware of every single thing going on. The preparation had given me vigilant situational awareness. After we reached main engine cutoff (MECO) a minute later it really struck me what had just transpired. Now weightless, the hydraulic problem handled correctly, and the adrenaline jolt over, my nerves felt free to jangle a bit. My heart rate did go up then as I pondered that this time it was no simulation. I said a short prayer of thanks that I had come through and taken good care of Atlantis when she started "bleeding." We could all thank an obsessively persistent training philosophy and a commander relentlessly leading his team to operational excellence. I was grateful too for living and working in a team culture of deep personal accountability. Had I executed incorrectly, the STS-76 crew and I would not be alive today, nor would Atlantis now be on display at Kennedy Space Center. We wouldve all ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, we completed a full mission and returned home safely to our families. The successful resolution of this operational challenge required absolutely perfect execution. It highlights every element of the PAPA Effective Execution System: Preparation, Awareness, Persistence, and Accountability all applied with real urgency toward a focused objective. In this case the objective was a dramatically compelling one: staying alive and preserving a multibillion-dollar national asset. Anyone, to perform at the very highest level, must resolutely hold themselves accountable for results and continuous improvement. Trials and difficulties are inevitable. Emergencies, or as NASA euphemistically calls them, "off-nominal situations," happen. True leaders always set the example of how to deal with such challenges. They build awareness and capability through preparation, exercise their willpower in persistence, and model a dedication to accountability. That accountability ethos consolidates effective execution and advances their team to the next level. Description for Sales People Employ a proven balanced-leadership performance model encompassing purpose, people, perspective, and program for top output in support of a greater end. Understand how to use a comprehensive objective-centric, mission-oriented system for focused and effective business execution. Know how and why to concentrate on preparation, awareness, persistence, and accountability as the basis for executing successfully in dynamic, challenging situations. Apply twelve purposeful performance principles derived from extensive real-world experience to lead their teams to outstanding outcomes. Strengthen leader and team member confidence in their ability to lead and perform at the front lines to get tangible results and achieve mission success. Description for Press or Other Media The author has a well-developed platform due to his "celebrity" job as an astronaut and over a decade promoting his speaking venture. The authors speaking enterprise will offer opportunities to promote and sell the book with years of experience as a successful professional expert speaker, he is well-known in the industry and corporate America. He has a client list in the hundreds, maintain partnerships with over three dozen speakers bureaus, and has personally addressed well over 100,000 business audience members. He has completed the Certified Speaking Professional designation for platform and business excellence awarded by the National Speakers Association. With his background he personally knows many senior business leaders, government officials, and media professionals. Combining his speaking experience with the rarity of having been to space as an astronaut, he continues to have many media opportunities in print, radio, television, and online. Hes been approached by national level news outlets, specifically CNN, ABC Nightly News, Fox News, NPR, and the Larry King Show, when space-related issues or policy questions make the news. Through these requests hes built an extensive network of media contacts. Additionally, hes worked directly on productions for National Geographic Television and the Discovery Channel. Social Media: The author is on Linked In with several hundred in his network. His website, will include a blog, capability for subscription-based, web-delivered elearning of the content, and links to the book-specific site He has a significant You Tube video presence as well. In addition to his live in-action professional speaker demo video, hes also posted a dozen short clips shot. They present stories summarizing key leadership, teamwork, and innovation principles. There are dozens of other space-themed interviews with him on the web. The author has consulted on three Hollywood movies and appeared in one, qualifying for the Screen Actors Guild. His additional current role of test flying unique prototype rocket planes for XCOR Aerospace and having piloted more rocket-powered flights than anyone else alive on the planet today offer additional leveraged publicity opportunities. Because of an arrangement between XCOR and Warner Brothers he appeared in-person with the cast of The Big Bang Theory at the San Diego Comicon event. Recently with XCORs partnership with Luminox Watches he was also a featured speaker and interviewee at the 100,000 attendee Basel World Expo in Switzerland, the largest watch industry trade show in the world. As part of book promotion, the author will call on his extensive network and further expand it, leveraging his status as an astronaut to do so. Because this book is the only business book an astronaut has ever written, it presents a unique and powerful hook for developing publicity opportunities. Hes had a interview with a film production company in the UK. This company is starting work on a documentary that Hollywood director Ridley Scott will direct. Its focus is on the human side of human spaceflight and the personal experiences of the infinitesimal fraction of people on the planet whove flown in space: a perfect tie-in to the book. With the authors current platform, he will be developing promotional tours and signings. There are opportunities annually at events including astronaut signings and meet-and-greets. In September he is traveling to England for such an event. Participates in a program at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex entitled Astronaut Encounter. He gives dozens of presentations, meet a few thousand people, and have multiple dedicated signing sessions. The author has invested in an in-house video to expand production of the short promotional "principles clips" and converting content from the book to videos and distributing them on You Tube. Details ISBN1630476641 Author Rick Searfoss Pages 248 Language English ISBN-10 1630476641 ISBN-13 9781630476649 Media Book Format Hardcover Short Title LIFTOFF Year 2016 Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations Imprint Morgan James Publishing llc Publication Date 2016-03-17 NZ Release Date 2016-03-17 US Release Date 2016-03-17 UK Release Date 2016-03-17 Publisher Morgan James Publishing llc Subtitle An Astronaut Commanders Countdown For Purpose Powered Leadership DEWEY 658.4092 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-02-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:95107269;

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