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4 Big Lessons MSPs Can Learn From Living Legend Buzz Aldrin
them , challenge them , and inspire them ? Here ’ s a little-spoken truth about attracting and keeping great people on your team : They want to work on BIG things … challenging things … significant goals . They want to be in a place that is working toward a bigger future with more opportunities to grow and learn . If you don ’ t provide that in your company , you ’ ll have a difficult time keeping them on board .
Lesson No . 2 : You Need A Team You Can Depend On .
In the case of the Apollo mission , a village . It ’ s estimated that the project team consisted of 300,000 people — an incredible partnership between the government , private industry , and , of course , the three astronauts who executed the mission .
While Collins orbited the moon and piloted the main ship , Armstrong and Aldrin descended onto the lunar surface . Earth erupted in celebration . Three humans were up in space , and at that very moment , two of them walked on the surface of the moon , sealing up rocks to take back to Earth and taking some of the most spectacular photos in American history . The enormity of it all wasn ’ t lost on Aldrin . “ Everyone felt like they had participated in this incredible journey , and the world welcomed us back as heroes from the moon ,” he recalled . “ However , we understand that people were not just cheering for three guys but for what we represented . That , by the nation and the world coming together , we had accomplished the impossible , and the true
“ Every entrepreneur knows all too well that you can only renegade and bootstrap your business to a point ; if you truly want to grow , you need to build a team that can work together , despite differences in personalities , agendas , and preferences .”
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