Strategies and tactics to get lucky in business and in life
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2009
Adopt a “Portfolio Approach” (win some, lose some) Challenge conventional wisdom Do odd stuff Publish your ideas Action through decrntralization Persistently step up to the plate Advertise your needs Push, push, push Be Eccentric Create scarcity and solve problems Don’t play by other people’s rules Stick to your knitting (kind of) Have a goal (a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2009
Learn a second language Write poetry Write a fictional story Learn to play an instrument, or a new instrument Listen to music, as many genres as you can Mix up your immediate environment Do brain exercises, like puzzles and other brain games Draw Scribble notes with your left hand (your non-favored hand) Play a new sport [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2009
Act Boldly Trust your instincts Enjoy and be proud of failure Have a purpose Thicken Your Skin Develop a “Do Whaetver it Takes” attitude Believe in Yourself
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2009
Build more systems, so the mundane takes care of itself so you can get on with pursuing opportunities Have cash on hand so you are ready to pounce when opportunity strikes Do all the boring stuff, and do it before its due to be done, so when an opportunity comes your way you can execute Adopt the latest technology so you can save and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2009
One reason it is tough to crack the status quo is because the people’s who are powerfully invested in the status quo tend to set the rules of how the game is played, how the votes are counted, how achievement is measured, how things are done. If you want to defeat the status quo, if you want to win in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2009
If you want to be a film maker you better buy a $500 camera and start making amateur films. If you want to be a rock-star then keep practicing on that guitar, get singing lessons, form a band and get some gigs, any gigs. If you want to develop the world’s best aircraft wing, then get a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2009
When Michael E Gerber, author of the E-Myth and E-Myth series wrote “the system is the solution”, he was referring to the critical importance of small business having systems so that they can build scalable businesses – work on the business, not in it. Having systems is also critical to pursuing luck. Yes in the Pursuit of Luck [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2009
…the owners and the crew who embraced and mastered the best technology. Ocean racing, like motorsport are “man and machine” sports. The winners, the lucky ones, embrace and master the latest technology of the day. That is not to say that they are not athletes, they are very fit endurance athletes. Its not to say they they [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2009
The Story of how sharing ideas, being inquisitive and doing stuff led to the creation of the microwave oven. In the early 1940.s English physicists Sir John Randall and Dr H.A.H Boot developed the cavity magnetron as as means of producing microwaves for use in airborne radar. During World War II England shared the technology with ally, the USA, and it ended up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2009
Allan Webber, founder of Smart Company magazine, gives readers of his Rules of Thumb Book blog a timely reminder at Christmas time, “have a purpose”.