50 ! strategies to get lucky in life or business

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50 ! STRATEGIES0 ! STRATEGIEStotoGET LUCKYET LUCKY

In Life or BusinessIn Life or Business


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Bat more.More times at the Crease,

more chances of hits..

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Try it!

Cut the baloney and get on

with something .

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Ready. Fire. Aim.(Instead of Ready.

Aim Aim. Aim....Fire).

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If a thing is worth doing, it isworth doing badly. G.K. Chesterton.

Youve gotta start somewhere.

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Read odd stuff.Look anywhere for ideas.

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Visit odd places.

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Make odd friends.

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Hire odd people.

Boring folks, boring ideas.

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Cultivate odd hobbies. Raiseorchids. Race yaks

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Work with odd partners.

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Ask dumb questions.

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Empower.

The more people batting,more chances of scoring.

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Train without limits.

-train unrelated to work.

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Dont back away from

passion.

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Pursue failure.

Failure is the onlylaunching pad for success.

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Dont let not invented hererules keep you from ripping

off nifty ideas.

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Constantly reorganize.Mix, match, shake things up.

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Listen to everyone.Ideas come from anywhere.

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Dont listen to anyone.Trust your inner ear.

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Get fired.

If you are not fired,

youre not pushing hard enough.

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Nurture intuition.

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Dont hang out with all the rest.

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Decentralize.

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Decentralize again.

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Smash all functional barriers.

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Destroy hierarchies.

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Open the account books.

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Start an information deluge.

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Take sabbaticals.#29


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Repot yourself every 10

years. Arjay Miller meanschange careers after each

decade.

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Spend 50 percent of your timewith outsiders.

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Spend 50 percent of youroutsider time with

wacko outsiders.

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Pursue alternative rhythms.

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Spread confusion

in your wake.

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Disorganize.

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Dis-equilibrate ... Createinstability, even chaos.

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Stir curiosity.Ignite youthful, dormant curiosity.

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Start a Traitors Hall of Fame.

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Give out Culture Scud Awards.

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Vary your pattern.

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Take off your coat.

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Take off your tie.

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Roll up your sleeves.

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Take off your shoes.

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Get out of your office.

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Get rid of your office.

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Spend a workday each week

at home.

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Nurture peripheral vision.

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Dont help.

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Avoid moderation.Anything worth doing is worth

doing to excess,

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Now write down the oppositeof each of these 50 rules.

And Adopt that insteadif you will..

- Just Loosen up!

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Presentation by. Shaji Hakeem

Credits:Tom Peters: Liberation Management.

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