The Titans of Saturn

Bram Groen, Charles Hampden-Turner

256 pages, parution le 23/09/2005

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This story behind the brilliant success of the Cassini-Huygens space mission to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, details a monumental achievement that took 15 years to accomplish. Sponsored jointly by NASA and the European and Italian Space Agencies (ESA and ISA), the Huygens probe was sent to explore Titan's atmosphere, which is similar to that of primitive earth around four billion years ago, in search of new data that may unlock the secrets to how life began on Earth. The probe's touchdown on the surface of Titan in January 2005 marked the farthest a man-made spacecraft has successfully landed from Earth.

As well as being a fantastic scientific story, this chronicle captures the dynamics that enabled this group of highly diverse people to fight against great odds and obstacles to triumph together.

L'auteur - Bram Groen

Bram Groen has worked in global consulting for most of his professional career and lectures on cross-cultural leadership at the Harvard Extension Program. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

L'auteur - Charles Hampden-Turner

Charles Hampden-Turner et Fons Trompenaars sont des spécialistes reconnus des questions interculturelles. Ils dirigent le centre de formation et de conseil en management interculturel Trompenaars-Hampden Turner (THT).

Charles Hampden-Turner is a leading management consultant and the author of 18 books, including 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Building Cross-Cultural Competence, Maps of the Mind, and The Seven Cultures of Capitalism. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and is a past winner of the Douglas Memorial Award. He teaches at the University of Cambridge.

Sommaire

Science versus politics: how the mission made it
The power of paradox: have values a logic of their own? Errors and corrections: how to play seriously
Competing to cooperate: how thousands of incomparable individuals fulfilled their common mission
Engineering and science: lines and circles
Taking a closer look: an introduction to the images section
Crisis and opportunity: how potential failure led to renewal
The equality of elites: leadership and culture
Simplicity versus complexity: Goldin's cruel dilemma
Lessons for Planet Earth
Epilogue: Tension, tears, and flow Appendices

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Marshall Cavendish
Auteur(s)	Bram Groen, Charles Hampden-Turner
Parution	23/09/2005
Nb. de pages	256
Format	16,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	580g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781904879411