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Luck
- Author
- Chengwei Liu
- Narrator
- Robbie Stevens
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 9 June 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award in 2021, this book moves beyond tired analyses of business success that bias leadership and strategy in order to focus on the critical role of good fortune.The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance.In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.
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Details
- Author
- Chengwei Liu
- Narrator
- Robbie Stevens
- Duration
- 4 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9798318534065
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Management and management techniques, Economic theory and philosophy
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award in 2021, this book moves beyond tired analyses of business success that bias leadership and strategy in order to focus on the critical role of good fortune.The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance.In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.
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