If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
—Thomas Aquinas
On December 9, 2020, SpaceX’s prototype Starship rocket exploded on impact as it attempted to land. The $200 million unmanned rocket was gone in a flash. Instead of lamenting the explosion or making excuses, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gushed with enthusiasm over the test results. In a Tweet, he spoke of the “Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks and precise flap control to landing point!” After bulleting what they had learned from the catastrophic landing, Musk Tweeted, “Congrats, SpaceX team, hell yeah!”1 That is the mindset of an organizational velocity (OV) leader! For Musk, the Starship crash was ...
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