Archive for June, 2010
wanna get lucky?
By brendan at 29 June, 2010, 8:59 pm
So at a recent Churchill Club function in our Innovation thinking stream, we ran fascinating event Luck. As part of the panel, we brought up a chap called Jason Bresnehan from Tasmania to talk. Jason is a corporate advisor who last year decided to start writing articles about becoming luckier. Jason had started to wonder [...]
Read More >>Planning for Good Luck
By brendan at 29 June, 2010, 8:27 pm
Every win in my career has been due to hard work and great strategies. Every failure due to bad luck. About 10 years ago I won a million dollar a year support contract. It was due to the sensational sales strategy we had in place. Two years later the business folded due to bad luck [...]
Read More >>Dont go to networking events, if you want to build a great network
By brendan at 7 June, 2010, 5:50 pm
The two weeks or so ago I took part in a panel session on Networking for CIOs. It was an interesting conversation although it pretty much centred around event attendance and using social networking tools like LinkedIn. At the end of the session, as I reflected on what had come out of it, I was [...]
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