The Mars Pathfinder: Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper": Hard Proof from the NASA/Jpl Pathfinder Team on How Limitations Can Guide You to

by Brian Muirhead and Price Pritchett

Book Overview

There's a new market battle cry being sounded around the world: Faster-Better-Cheaper. Organizations everywhere are in a competitive war trying to pick up speed, improve output, and do it all for less... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944002749
• ISBN13: 9780944002742
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Pritchett & Hull Associates, Incorporated
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Where Brian Muirhead when you need him?

What an incredible book! Brian Muirhead's story of developing, launching, and landing the successful Mars Pathfinder Mission is an incredible story of vision, hard work, attention to detail, and because of it all, success. The professionalism exhibited by Brian and his team continue to inspire me months after I read the book. In the current days of failed missions to Mars, I can't help but think that if Brian Muirhead had been in charge of those failed missions, they too would have been a success.

At last a simple powerful book on how to perform in groups

You were so impressed by the Mars Pathfinder mission, and you are definetely interested by people management issues: get this great little book, you will appreciate the conciseness, precision, and high value of all the concepts it expresses. If history is to teach us how to be 'better' in the present and the future, such short and enjoyable summaries of what was done well, how and why, is THE way to learn, grow and improve. What a mission, what a book ! I missed two metro stops while savoring each of its words ! Bravo !: 5 stars ! PS: Get Brian K. Muirhead & William L. Simon's excellent book HIGH VELOCITY LEADERDSHIP if you want to read more about faster, better, cheaper".

Great ideas for finding new ways to do more with less!

Outstanding book showing how the Pathfinder team put a rover on Mars in less time and with a fraction of the money than it took to put up Voyager. Great ideas for how to look beyond the status quo and do things better, faster, cheaper. A great team leadership book.

Very thought provoking for changing your paradigm.

Easy reading. Theories for changes in thought processes for problem solving followed by real examples from the Pathfinder Mission. I met Brian Muirhead. Very inspiring. A must read if you are ready to change the way you think about some of the same old problems.