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    Make Your Own Luck (Review and Analysis of Shapiro and Stevenson's Book)
    Make Your Own Luck (Review and Analysis of Shapiro and Stevenson's Book)
    Make Your Own Luck (Review and Analysis of Shapiro and Stevenson's Book)
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    Make Your Own Luck (Review and Analysis of Shapiro and Stevenson's Book)

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    Complete summary of Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson's book: "Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business".

    This summary of the ideas from Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson's book "Make Your Own Luck" explains how "predictive intelligence" is your ability to act in the face of uncertainty to make your own luck and destiny. In their book, the authors have devised a four-step process that you can follow in order to develop this skill. They point out that focus and organisation are vital in the process, and you need to know where you want to go and why before you can start making your own luck. This summary presents all the tools you need to start forging your own destiny, by understanding what you want and making it happen.

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    To learn more, read "Make Your Own Luck" and take the first step to creating your own luck and getting the future you always dreamed of.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9782511019566
    Make Your Own Luck (Review and Analysis of Shapiro and Stevenson's Book)

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      Make Your Own Luck (Review and Analysis of Shapiro and Stevenson's Book) - BusinessNews Publishing

      Book Presentation: Make Your Own Luck by Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson

      Book Abstract

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      Summary of Make Your Own Luck (Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson)

      1. Have big, impressive and vivid goals for your future.

      2. Make certain the game is actually worth playing.

      3. Look for the possibility of quantum leaps forward.

      4. Understand what’s required and how to get it.

      5. Know how much magic will be required to pull this off.

      6. Always have a viable back-up plan standing by.

      7. Forecast the consequences of emerging patterns.

      8. Leverage all your low uncertainty bets to the hilt.

      9. Find ways to reduce or redistribute risk.

      10. Be crystal clear about what it is you’re betting on.

      11. Understand all the follow-on bets you’re locked into.

      12. Know when to call it quits and move on.

      Book Abstract

      MAIN IDEA

      To make your own luck and thereby have better control of your destiny, focus on increasing your predictive intelligence – your ability to act in the face of uncertainty to create the future you desire. Predictive intelligence grows when the four-step process is followed:

      Orienting and organizing are important because until you’ve figured out where you want to go and why, it’s just not possible for you to get lucky. Until you organize and orient yourself, you won’t be able to recognize a lucky break when you see one or make adjustments to your plans to take advantage of things that come up unexpectedly. At the same time, you won’t ever get lucky unless you move forward and act. You need to generate alternatives, figure out which have the best probability of success and then actually place your bet to move forward. You can’t create a noteworthy batting average if you fail to do the right thing, regardless of how much you know.

      Predictive intelligence is not something you’re either born with or you’re not. Rather, predictive intelligence is generated by a set of twelve orient-organize-plan-act! skills which can be improved and enhanced, just like any other business skills.

      "All our work is based on the premise that every purposive action is a bet; one acts now on

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