Maya Chukkas

“Thus, the safer we make the workplace, the more we can make combustible ideas. If we want our people to make stuff explode, we need to give them a safe place to do it. A lot of that safety has to do with time.”
― 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

“Over the years, I have realized that life is a process of ongoing transformation spurred by the interlinked qualities of curiosity, purpose, and courage. Whether or not we ask it to, the journey of life tends to make us strong, teaches us to contribute to the best of our abilities, and allows us to pursue a personal legend on our own terms. It is the work of bringing our authentic selves into the world.”
― 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

“To be a leader is to have a trust in one’s journey. Nietzsche has a Latin term for it: amor fati: the love of fate.”
― 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

“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