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Apollo 11 | HR lessons from the first-ever moon landing

HR lessons from the first-ever moon landing

50 years ago this week, humanity did something that was previously inconceivable; it breached the bubble of earth and sent men to the moon.

The achievement was the work of over 400,000 space and aeronautics experts, and a collaborative effort with in excess of 20,000 companies, yet as the world gathered around their TV screens from July 16th - 24th 1969, just three – now-iconic – faces represented the blood, sweat and collective tears of a decade of effort on behalf of the American people.

HR Grapevine has collated five of the most powerful HR lessons from the inspirational actions of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins:

Lateral thinking 

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