Chuck Baker
http://www.mrcbaker.com
“The converse lesson is that anyone who waits around to be authorized to speak up is never going to be a leader. It’s just not in their nature.”
― The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
― The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
“Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist.”
― Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal
― Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal
“In curiosity-based decision making, we use one of the core traits of our species to pull apart, examine, and wade into the open question. In my experience curiosity-based decision making yields much better solutions.”
― The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
― The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
“It’s when freedom isn’t freedom at all that the confusion of time soon becomes a confusion of soul. It doesn’t take long to figure out that to have no fixed time for the major parts of life is to have bartered our freedom away.”
― The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life
― The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life
“We all share the instinct, and we can all relate to it, which gives our curiosity-driven need to explore the added beauty that no one has to be forced to do it. People don’t necessarily have to be incentivized with stock options and mega-salaries for curiosity-driven creativity to occur. The only essential ingredient is a work environment that’s structured to encourage our innate drive to wonder, question, and explore.”
― The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
― The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Chuck’s 2025 Year in Books
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