Bringing Lucky Back

It's a classic conundrum: the things that make us successful are the things that get stripped away once we've made it. It's the rare company that manages to maintain these habits of luck as the organization scales. And yet as we've seen with 3M and Google (and will see many more times throughout this book), it's exactly this embrace of chance, especially as a business grows, that creates the conditions for companies to maximize their opportunities for success.

This is where Get Lucky comes to the rescue. We're bringing lucky back. Small company or large, it doesn't matter: we will show you discrete skills you can develop to re-introduce serendipity into your work life.

We call our approach “planned serendipity.” It's a set ...

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