Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed — Engineering Strategic Invisibility
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos as a systems-level analysis of technological innovation, institutional design, and strategic competition.
What appears to be the story of a revolutionary aircraft is also the story of an organization deliberately engineered to solve problems that conventional institutions could not. This Deep Dive traces how incentive structures, organizational culture, secrecy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and long-term…
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