If the Shoe Fits: Luck is Not a Dirty Word
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here
These days any talk about luck is considered heresy.
But there is such a thing.
Malcolm Gladwell understands the role luck plays and explains it in Outliers: The Story of Success.
A woman I know said, “You can be the best parent in the world, but raising great kids still requires a good dose of luck.”
Nolan Bushnell once said, “Don’t mistake good luck for good management.”
It’s luck when you bump into an investor having coffee with both the time and the inclination to listen; it’s hard work and being prepared that doesn’t waste the opportunity.
When managing people, process or circumstances, you can’t count on luck, but you also can’t ignore it.
And you shouldn’t try to take credit for it.
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