Maya Chukkas

“Leonardo da Vinci was a man of mottoes. One of them was saper vedere, “to know how to see.” As we mentioned before, the artist-engineer thought many people knew how to look but few knew how to see. This reminds us of Truman Capote’s admonishment that what Jack Kerouac did was typing, not writing—for writing was much more refined than On the Road. Literary criticism aside, what is it to properly see? How did da Vinci see? As Daniel Gelb reports, da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds featured observations of the movement of birds’ wings so hyper-detailed that they couldn’t be confirmed until the invention of slow-motion film.4 To put it in the parlance of contemporary business-speak, that’s one hell of a core competency, and his observational prowess animated all of his work across the various domains he explored. For da Vinci, sight was the medium, the aperture, or the platform, from which his value would spring.”
― Faisal Hoque, Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability

“we talked of Zen and entrepreneurship, poetry and products, life and life’s work.”
― Faisal Hoque, Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Faisal Hoque, Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability

“It is possible for organizations to thrive in the innovation economy, but this requires the union of serendipity and process, conceptual understanding and emotional intelligence, theory and practice. In so doing, a company can cultivate perpetual transformation.”
― Faisal Hoque, Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability