Alan Mulally: If I remember right, Frances, I think—didn't I share about, you know, that I wanted to be an astronaut?
Frances Hesselbein: Yes, yes.
AM: And so I—I got in the program and I switched to engineering and I learned to fly, and I wanted to go to the moon; I wanted to you know, help expand the knowledge of what we all know about the universe, and then I found out that I was colorblind.
And so, it was going to be a manual landing and we had to have perfect vision, and so, I wasn't perfect, and I shared this with everybody and so I, you know, I was devastated. I consulted all my friends; I had dedicated my life to this, and then I was redirected with some close friends and my thesis advisor in college to follow my dream designing and making airplanes, and that's how I got to Boeing—and it's just another leadership lesson to always be open to the possibilities, and how you can really serve. And they're all gems; they're wonderful things. They're not setbacks; they're opportunities to grow further.