How to Get Lucky: Where Strategy, Opportunism and Grit Collide
How to Get Lucky: Where Strategy, Opportunism and Grit Collide
Financial journalist and broadcaster Bruce Whitfield has spent nearly 25 years studying companies and those who lead them. He is ready to share the lessons he has learned through more than 50 000 interviews and discussions with some of the world’s most creative business minds in his new 45-minute keynote: How to Get Lucky: Where Strategy, Opportunism and Grit Collide.
“All successful people are talented and work hard. Not all people who are talented and work hard are successful,” he says, “there is definitely something else at play.”
The world’s most grounded leaders acknowledge the role of luck in their success. It is a critical factor but, it does not simply occur on its own. To be consistently successful is far more complicated than simply “being in the right place at the right time”, or “good timing” a “lucky break” or being seen as someone who was “just born lucky.”
The odds of success improve markedly when great leaders ensure their teams are well positioned to seize opportunities which are often hidden in plain sight and are missed by most.
Building any kind of enterprise in an increasingly digital, AI driven, fiercely competitive environment is hard, and success is never guaranteed.
How to Get Lucky: Where Strategy, Opportunism and Grit Collide, is drawn from the most critical lessons he has distilled through analysing successful global businesses for more than two decades.
It is the perfect antidote to the prevailing negative sentiment afflicting many businesses around the world as fears of recession and stagflation undermine leaders’ ability to shape their growth strategies for the future.
This talk is useful to all organisations looking to align their teams for growth.
