Mission Ready: How to Build Teams That Perform Under Pressure

The leader of a major NASA mission provides a practical guide to developing teams that excel in high-stakes situations.

Lindy Elkins-Tanton leads NASA's Psyche mission, a $1.2 billion megaproject that sent a spacecraft on an eight-year journey to investigate an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. Along the way, she has managed challenges ranging from potentially catastrophic technological malfunctions and overbudget subcontractors to fraught email chains about who clogged the toilet. And she ...