Formula For Luck
Leave Nothing To Chance: Ten Powerful Principles For Building A Luck Mindset
Published on 13. April 2021
352 pages
979-8-89188-456-4 (ISBN)
Description
If you have ever felt unlucky, The Formula for Luck will teach you skills that are foundational to building a Luck Mindset and that will significantly improve the quality and quantity of your successful outcomes.
This book offers readers a clear understanding of the everyday, practical steps they can take toward boosting their luck and changing their lives for the better.
Author Stuart Lacey brings a scholar's curiosity and an innovator's creativity to bear on this thorough exploration of the habits, behaviors, and actions we can cultivate and practice in order to increase luck in our lives. The Formula for Luck includes concrete exercises that can be completed as readers progress through the chapters and offers access to a workbook and an entire curriculum for helping teams and communities take charge of their journeys toward amplifying luck.
This book offers readers a clear understanding of the everyday, practical steps they can take toward boosting their luck and changing their lives for the better.
Author Stuart Lacey brings a scholar's curiosity and an innovator's creativity to bear on this thorough exploration of the habits, behaviors, and actions we can cultivate and practice in order to increase luck in our lives. The Formula for Luck includes concrete exercises that can be completed as readers progress through the chapters and offers access to a workbook and an entire curriculum for helping teams and communities take charge of their journeys toward amplifying luck.
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Person
STUART LACEY is a thought leader, impact investor, and entrepreneur with a twenty-plus year track record of founding successful companies, leveraging innovative processes, and applying a Luck Mindset to deliver remarkable shareholder value. The founder of leading global data rights company Trunomi, Lacey has been named one of the Top Executives Changing the Future of Banking by Bank Innovation, the 2017 Barclays Rise Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Most Influential FinTech CEO of 2019 by CV Magazine. He is a graduate of McGill University and a regional chair and multiple award-winning member of the Young Presidents Organization. Stuart holds six issued patents and has nine further patents pending. He has been published in Forbes, TechCrunch, NBC, and Inc. Magazine amongst others, and was a TEDx speaker in 2015 on the future of personal data and privacy.
SALIM ISMAIL is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He travels extensively addressing various topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries and society in general.
Salim has spent the last six years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Prior to that, as a Vice President at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator.
His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. He has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Wired, Vogue and the BBC.
He advises Fortune 500 executives and many world governments on the future of technology and recently released his first book, Exponential Organizations, which launched live on CNBC's Squawk Box on October 14th 2014.
SALIM ISMAIL is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He travels extensively addressing various topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries and society in general.
Salim has spent the last six years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Prior to that, as a Vice President at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator.
His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. He has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Wired, Vogue and the BBC.
He advises Fortune 500 executives and many world governments on the future of technology and recently released his first book, Exponential Organizations, which launched live on CNBC's Squawk Box on October 14th 2014.
Content
FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Why Me? Are You Lucky? Thoughts and Actions Your Own Worst Enemy How to Use the Next Ten Chapters The First Principle: Curiosity The Second Principle: Passion The Third Principle: Connectivity The Fourth Principle: Positivity The Fifth Principle: Empathy The Sixth Principle: Adaptability The Seventh Principle: Situational Awareness The Eighth Principle: Serendipity The Ninth Principle: Choice The Tenth Principle: Fail Forward The Formula for Luck The Luck Mindset CONCLUSION EPILOGUE The Future of Luck ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
