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The Right Kind of Crazy
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The Right Kind of Crazy

A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership and High-Stakes Innovation

Portfolio, 2016 Mehr


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • Concrete Examples
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Adam Steltzner – writing with William Patrick – offers an absorbing memoir in which space’s challenges make ordinary business seem simple. Steltzner discusses facing failure, heeding your subconscious, cultivating a Zen-like beginner’s mind and tapping into your intuition. These ideas could seem like mystical hokum, except that Steltzner’s an unpretentious, honest and often funny narrator. And his ideas helped send a multibillion-dollar machine to Mars. Steltzner speaks directly to those in creative or scientific jobs and to managers who want to cultivate innovation and teamwork.

Take-Aways

  • Space exploration offers leadership lessons.
  • Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Adam Steltzner followed a circuitous path to space.
  • Fear of failure can block success.

About the Authors

Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Adam Steltzner worked on the Mars Exploration Rover project and the Mars Science Laboratory project as well as missions that included the Galileo, Cassini-Huygens and Mars Pathfinder spacecraft.


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