Strategies and tactics to get lucky in business and in life
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2010
WARNING: This post is for males only. To get lucky (or unlucky) we must take risks. The more risks the more luck. So what is a catalyst to take risk? Tonight on the ABC show Catalyst they answered this question – for males at least. It’s hot chicks. Catalyst’s story was about a psychology experiment where the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2010
Read about The Pursuit of Luck in this article that appeared in NineMSN Money today. By Business Consultant Jason Bresnehan.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2010
You have to embrace chaos – life might just astonish you
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2010
Leon Gettler’s article the Luck of the entrepreneur in Fast Company interviews Jason Bresnehan.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2010
I am somewhat a hermit. I spend my days working as a free-lance business consultant. My office is on a small sheep grazing farm in Tasmania, the southern most state of Australia. When I am not working I spend time writing, gardening or just thinking about my opinions, ideas and theories. Or maybe drinking to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2010
There are two reasons the Pursuit of Luck does not apply to entering lotteries or gambling at casinos: 1) With the exception of buying a ticket or the act of a gambling, you can do nothing to influence circumstances which alter the randomness (the number of random collisions) of the process. 2) The upside in lotteries [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2010
Only last month I wrote that the Venture Capital (VC) business is a business model based around luck. Fred Wilson, a NYC VC describes his luck tipping point in the venture capital industry: Then I got lucky. The Internet came along. I didn’t know anything about the business of the Internet. But then nobody else [...]