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From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats of engineering. When NASA needed to land Curiosity—a 2,000-pound, $2.5 billion rover—on the surface of Mars, 140 million miles away, they turned to JPL. Steltzner’s team couldn’t test their kooky solution, the Sky Crane. They were on an unmissable deadline, and the world would be watching when they succeeded—or failed.
At the helm of this effort was an unlikely rocket scientist and accidental leader, Adam Steltzner. After barely graduating from high school, he followed his curiosity to the local community college to find out why the stars moved. Soon he discovered an astonishing gift for math and physics. After getting his Ph.D. he ensconced himself within JPL, NASA’s decidedly unbureaucratic cousin, where success in a mission is the only metric that matters.
The Right Kind of Crazy is a first-person account of innovation that is relevant to anyone working in science, art, or technology. For instance, Steltzner describes:
·How his team learned to switch from fear-based to curiosity-based decision making
·How to escape “The Dark Room”—the creative block caused by fear, uncertainty, and the lack of a clear path forward
·How to tell when we’re too in love with our own ideas to be objective about them—and, conversely, when to fight for them
·How to foster mutual respect within teams while still bashing bad ideas
The Right Kind of Crazy is a book for anyone who wants to channel their craziness into creativity, balance discord and harmony, and find a signal in a flood of noise.
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It is a very interesting story about working in teams to accomplish engineering tasks where the unknowns can be large and the cost of an error can be complete failure of the task. Mix in that people (not a person) are the source of the solution. Lots of insights on one way to work through these issues. I am part of the team that teaches our capstone design experience to students and find there are lots of supporting stories that can be used for motivation from this book. Kind of a modern day version of *Soul of a New Machine*.
I have read many management books in my time, but this comes across as both one of the most honest and down to earth treatments I have seen. Instead of dispensing general bromides about managing groups, Adam Steltzner gives us an intimate inside look at the team who put together the Entry Descent and Landing systems for the Curiosity Rover. In addition to the technical details, he aptly describes the very human side of having the right people, the right goals, and the right determination to do something that is incredibly hard. His own personal story of how he ended up doing amazing things is itself a compelling example of overcoming a late start, setting goals, and perseverance. I had the opportunity to hear Adam speak when he visited Harvard Medical School, and his unique brand of charismatic leadership was evident. Reading this book, you will learn quite a bit about an amazing technical achievement and at the same time, how to bring out the best in the diverse and talented people dedicated to a mission.
I heard the author on a radio talk show and was immediately interested in his day job... building spacecraft to land on Mars. But after starting to read the book, I realized there were so many parallels to my day job...leading smart creative engineers in a team environment to accomplish great things. This book is as much a leadership book as it is a first-person account of an amazing series of NASA JPL mars landings! I can only hope there is a sequel one day...I felt like I was inside the JPL and I want more!
This is an >excellent< read ... that is, if you're a space geek, a closet engineer, and have an appreciation for the immense challenge it is to manage people to their limits in achieving greatness. I saw Adam Steltzner first in "Seven Minutes of Terror" (super-highly recommended; google-search it; I've shown it a hundred times), then in Mission Control when MSL/Curiosity landed on Mars, and was impressed. When I saw he had written a book, I jumped to read it immediately. This kind of endeavor of which he writes, I think, represents the best of the best efforts of man- and woman-kind -- mission-driven, failure not an option, against the toughest odds, and figure it out. Or, as he says, dare mighty things. With all the (wrong kind of) craziness in the world today, this story brings tears to my eyes. Oh, and it's really well written too. Enjoy.
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