Written fourteen years ago in Liberation Management, Tom Peters shared 50 strategies on making luck happen in business. Many of them are just as chew today as they were yesterday. Thanks to recent a posting on Tom’s blog, we now have access to these ideas on getting lucky … PDF link.
I was struck with how some of Tom’s luck-finding strategies from yesteryear are exemplified heavily in today’s blogging/social media culture, including …
#18 | Listen to everyone. Ideas come from everywhere.#28 | Start an informational deluge. The more real-time, unedited information people close to the action have, the more that “neat stuff” happens.
#34 | Spread confusion in your wake. Keep people off balance, don’t let the ruts get deeper than they already are.
#37 | Stir curiosity. Igniting youthful, dormant curiosity in followers is the lead dog’s tap task, according to Sony chairman Akio Morita.
#48 | Nurture peripheral vision. The interesting “stuff” usually is going on beyond the margins of the professional’s ever-narrowing line of sight.
SOURCE: Tom Peters, “The Pursuit of Luck” (.pdf) |Liberation Management
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