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Podcast: Deep Leadership
Episode: When the Mission Fails: 5 Timeless Values Every Leader Must Live with Andy Crocker
Description: What do you do when the mission fails?
In this episode of Deep Leadership, I sit down with aerospace executive Andy Crocker to talk about what happens when a career-defining project collapses. After competing against SpaceX and Blue Origin for NASA’s Human Landing System, Andy and his team lost the contract — not once, but twice.
For many leaders, that kind of loss can shake your identity.
Instead of walking away bitter, Andy stepped back and asked a harder question: Who am I without the mission?
That reflection led him to writ...