Earning Serendipity: Four Skills for Creating & Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work - Hardcover

We use phrases like "overnight success" and "a stroke of luck' to describe unprecedented good fortune. For some people, success seems fated or shrouded in mystery, but the reality is that we all have control over the path of prosperity. This book will show readers that most positive changes in fortune -- those outside of straight betting luck -- are no mystery at all.They are the result of a rare combination of four skills that readers can develop and apply in their careers, businesses, and lives. These four skills are: SEEING WITH CIRCULAR VISION: Search beyond the obvious to diversify opportunities and protect against misfortune; SOWING ENTREPRENEURIAL SEEDS: Plant seeds of opportunity in everyday activities; GROWING SEEDS OF GREATEST POTENTIAL: Recognise the most promising opportunities and give them full attention; SHARING THE HARVEST: Focus on meeting others needs to improve personal good fortune. Those who master this quartet tap into a power most never reach: the power to create and sustain a momentum of good fortune. This ability to earn serendipity can elevate a career or company quicker than any single force.

Glenn Llopis, founder/chairman of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, combines a UCLA education with fast-tracked years at the Gallo Wine Company and Sunkist, where, at twenty-six, he became the youngest senior manager in the company's 100-plus-year history. His early successes opened the door for his next endeavor: vice president of the $1 billion Norway Seafood Co. at only thirty years old. In the decade since, Llopis has parlayed his unique Cuban upbringing and traditional corporate experience into nontraditional ventures that have been featured in the "New York Times," the "Los Angeles Times," "Fortune," and the "Financial Times," and on "Larry King Live," "Good Morning America," MSNBC, and Yahoo! News. Llopis currently resides in Irvine, CA.