Listen in as Dick Richardson, Co-founder and CEO of Experience to Lead, and Dr. Rebecca Ray, Executive Vice President - Human Capital at The Conference Board, join the HR Happy Hour Show with Trish McFarlane and Steve Boese. In this timely and relevant podcast, they discuss how leadership lessons from the 1863 Battle of [...]
A crisis can hit at any time, and a leader’s role is to be agile and successfully lead the organization. In the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis, we pause to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 explosion. The details of the inspiring rescue mission provide a powerful case study with three key [...]
Listen in as Dick Richardson, Co-founder and CEO of Experience to Lead, joins the HR Happy Hour Show with Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane. They discuss Dick's new book Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives, a book on how the leadership and decision-making processes of the legendary Apollo Space Program’s leaders can be applied in business today, [...]
This guest post originally appeared in the August 9, 2019 Great Leadership Blog by Dan McCarthy. A simple definition of leadership is “Leadership is influencing others to do what they would not do if left to their own accord.” Consider the most memorable speeches meant to persuade people: Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I have a [...]
The team at Vantage Leadership recently interviewed our Co-founder and CEO, Dick Richardson, to discuss the release of his new book, Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives. In July of 2019, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. We wanted to share the insights from the Apollo mission in a [...]
This op-ed originally appeared in the July 16, 2019 special Apollo 11 at 50 issue of SpaceNews magazine. July 20, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of one of mankind’s greatest achievements, the moon landing by Apollo 11, and the leadership it took to make that feat possible. The story of the Apollo program, the many [...]
Repost from Politico. This July 20 marks 50 years since one of mankind’s greatest triumphs -- when the first humans reached the surface of the moon. The historic Apollo 11 mission was culmination of the work of a relatively small group of leaders at NASA who marshaled private firms, government and academic partners, and public [...]
Repost from Trainingindustry.com Imagine this situation: the vice president of the United States asks you to take an important executive job, but you have limited experience, don’t feel qualified and refuse to take it. The job? Leading a team of thousands in a $20 billion, decade-long effort to put man on the moon. That was [...]
In Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives, a new book from Experience to Lead Owner Dick Richardson, stories from the flight directors, rocket scientists, and influencers of NASA’s Apollo years provide valuable lessons for today’s leaders. 50 years ago, man landed on the moon. The story of what it took to get there is [...]
Experience to Lead owner, Dick Richardson, was recently interviewed by the Business North Carolina Weekly Roundup Podcast. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing is in July of this year. To honor their incredible leadership feat, Dick wrote his book Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives. In this interview, Dick shares his [...]
