What Is Responsible For Career Success? Strategy Or Luck?

Well I strategy is very important for success of any kind. Why do you think people pay consultants millions to develop strategies to move their business to the next level? What is luck? I don’t believe in luck but I believe in favor from God. What is failure? Only when you concede in your heart that career wise you’ve failed that is when you are a failure. If right doesn’t work for you then try left. That is part of strategy. Cheers and never forget to ask God for favor in all your undertakings.

You can't take advantage of "luck" if you're not prepared, so you better spend all your time preparing!

You can't take advantage of "luck" if you're not prepared, so you better spend all your time preparing!
seun, you've encapsulated the best response into the tiniest space! you've said it all.

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ive seen a fair number of hopeless drunks winning state and even national lotteries. they got lucky. so if i pop a bottle of coke and found fortune on the cork, it doesnt necessarily mean i worked for it in some past life. maybe i just got plain lucky.

huh  dont really get what yoiu mean right there. my point was consultants dont predict what can happen and thus recommend suitable course of action like they gaze into crystal balls. rather, it is my contention that all they do is analyze past successes and recommend strategies in conformity with what transpired before.


its guessing. what we call taking a chance. i used the coke analogy, which doesnt require any lottery form filling. so if i buy a bottle of coke without knowing wots under the coke, that is strategizing???  in any case how many people DAILY fill out lottery forms and end up disappointed? because they arent lucky?

i'm waiting for an opportunity. when it comes, i dont have to tell you; you'll read of it in the papers.


depend on LUCK and God. so why not depend on strategy? why omit it?

I meant crystal ball is equivalent to luck




I meant to say depend on strategy and God


Opening a cork and looking under it is pure strategy.you have recognized that it could be a means to an end





From the bottom of my heart. Best of luck(since you depend on it)

Seun the word luck that u wrote about is just opportunity. Neoteny is so intent on convincing everyone that luck is responsible for business strategy. Well wake up cos in the real world of business, opportunity with smart moves(strategy) is a leading way to success. Only a disillusioned mind sits and waits for mother luck to shine.
People that play the lotteries and win are very insignificant population of the entire lottery players. A lottery owner knows that to achieve success in that field the owner has to deliberately set out prizes to be won. so the winner player believes luck has shone on him/her but rather it was mere strategic plan by the owner.
Also one might ask the lottery player who won was luck. I say an emphatic NO cos that person was at "the right place at the right time" which was the opportunity destiny or God was presenting to that person. What if that person had gone pass the lottery stand definitely  such a win wouldn't be his/hers. So the wise saying "opportunity comes but once" hold the truth.

 

Strategy are certainly not inter – changeable, in fact at most occasion they are seen as world apart, because while a strategist is seen as a man ever prepared, a man with luck is seen as lazy. You could get far with luck, especially when you have all the god-fathers, nice legs, good smiles and right names!!! But believe me most times a dull guy with lucks eventually noticed when he gets at the top. The office suffers because he lacks the ware withal to deal with the exigencies of his position.

But when you talk strategy you are talking long - term plan to succeed. A strategy to move on in your office may be acquiring professional certificates, it may be understudying an individual that you know if destined for the top. A good strategist will not give room for luck, rather he tries to acquire all the skills necessary to attain and remain in a position he intends to acquire. Success from strategy depends entirely on the out - come of a good strategy.

When strategy is met with luck, it’s a bonus, think of a man acquiring skills to become the head of am organization, only for the present head to move on, this is luck with good elements of preparedness, because if this happens he will be well equipped to handle the situation

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The coke analogy those not quite fit with the lottery, because with the coke you have no idea of what is under the bottle but with a pool (lottery ) you have some knowlege of what had transpired