The Weekly Debrief: On 80th Anniversary, We Remember Skunk Works’ Best Failure
Credit: NASA
Fourteen years after creating Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs unit—better known as the Skunk Works—one of the most successful managers in aerospace history was facing a management crisis in 1957. Clarence “Kelly” Johnson was refusing to build the aircraft that the U.S. Air Force wanted to...
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