Strategies and tactics to get lucky in business and in life
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2010
Today I am bidding for a consultancy project. Some would say I am boxing outside my weight division. I think I can do it standing on my head. This is step one – be confident. The second step is to get started. A freind of my grandfather’s, a Tasmanian who I met in Phoeinx once, was the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2010
To me “the freedom of confinement” is a beautiful poetic paradox. It is also a challenging concept – free yourself by confining yourself. And it is a concept that has application in the pursuit of luck in that by confining yourself you can free your mind and force out discoveries, creativity and production. The most obvious [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2010
A couple of days ago I tuned into a fascintaing interview on ABC (Australia) Radio National. Called The strange alchemy of life and law the interview is with South African judge Albie Sachs. In beautiful phrase Albie speaks of how many of his best legal discoveries came out of complex thought collisions which would line up while he was soaking in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2010
SmartCompany have named The Pursuit of Luck as one of the Top 25 Business Blogs to watch. Check out the SmartCompany article by Brad Howarth. Why were we lucky enough to be bestowed this honour with 24 other cool business blogs? Because I had an idea and I sucked up my fear of failure, I sucked up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2010
It’s been over a month since my last post which is pretty poor form and frankly embarrassing when I compare myself to the prolific business authors and bloggers like Seth Godin who manages an insightful post every single day. Excuses are for wimps, but [in wimpy voice] my excuse is that I have been helping a client [...]