Business Lessons from Space Travel
Burt Rutan is an industrial designer, aircraft enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Rutan’s team captured the $10M Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for being the first private group to launch a reusable craft into space twice within a two-week period. Rutan, an ardent promoter of space entrepreneurship, offers lessons in achievement that apply to many industries and professions.
Rutan says that we’ve stopped moving forward in our quest for space because we are, collectively, afraid. What are we afraid of?
What are you afraid of in your industry? What are you going to do about it?