#419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works
About this episode
This episode explores the life and insights of Kelly Johnson, the founder of Skunk Works, and his contributions to engineering and organizational design.
Founders ✓ Claim : Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org . Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Kelly Johnson’s “14 Points” read like a SpaceX operations manual — 60 years before SpaceX was founded. Kelly Johnson created Skunk Works, which he defined as: “A concentration of a few good people solving problems far in advance—and at a fraction of the cost—of other groups by applying the simplest, most straightforward methods possible to develop and produce new projects. All it is really is the application of common sense to some pretty tough problems.” Kelly Johnson was a great engineer and system builder with genius for organizational design. His autobiography which he wrote when he was 75 years old is full of hard-earned wisdom from his 44 year career. This episode is what I learned from reading Kelly: More Than My Share of it All by Kelly Johnson. Made possible by: Ramp: https://ramp.com Axon by Applovin: https://axon.ai/founders Vanta: https://vanta.com/founders
People in this episode
Guest: Kelly Johnson
Topics covered
- engineering
- organizational design
- innovation
- aerospace
- entrepreneurship
Keywords
- Skunk Works
- Kelly Johnson
- engineering
- innovation
- organizational design
- SpaceX
- aerospace
Sponsors
Ramp, Axon by Applovin, Vanta
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Organizations: SpaceX
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