6 Steps: Red Tape of Talking to NASA

Five years ago, if a junior consultant wanted to talk with someone like Linda Cureton, NASA’s Chief Information Officer, about Spacebook, he would have to:

• Brief his manager on why he wants to talk with her
• Discuss his business objectives for the meeting
• Get his manager to contact a senior manager within the NASA account team and schedule a meeting with him/her to discuss intentions
• Discuss his business objectives with him/her
• Hope that this person would then have the time to reach out to Linda’s assistant to get on her calendar
• Attend the meeting with a NASA account representative (because a junior consultant couldn’t go by himself.

14 minutes ago Steve Radick
www.mashable.com

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