Moving Beyond Your Mistakes with a NASA Expert

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, Thom Singer shares an interview he conducted on “The Webinar Talk Show Podcast”, in which he and co-host Eliz Greene interviewed Mike Ciannilli, the head of NASA’s EDGE Apollo, Challenger, Columbia Lessons Learned project.  This project explores what can be learned and what can be avoided from the tragedy of space disasters. Mike understands the importance of recognizing our mistakes, being open and transparent about them, and learning from them in order to create a more successful future.  He shares the importance of embracing the diversity of dissenting opinions in order to produce the best possible outcome on any project, and highlights some of the lessons you take away from the chaos and change that has been forced upon all of us in today’s COVID-19 world.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The value of learning from your mistakes </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA has done a lot of things right over the last 6 decades, but the times they missed the mark are the lessons that they need to learn from most.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Study and understand your history and the reasons that certain decisions were made. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pinpoint the good and the bad, and then choose which one you want to repeat.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Lessons learned from the Columbia disaster</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Rocket science is the easy part of a NASA project, communicating with people is the harder but most essential part of the success of any project. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn to be a better listener to decrease the likelihood of miscommunication among team members. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 4