{"id":1876,"date":"2013-03-12T17:17:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2013-03-12T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:17:50","slug":"success-happens-when-you-have-a-coincidence-of-talent-resources-and-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/12\/success-happens-when-you-have-a-coincidence-of-talent-resources-and-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"Success happens when you have a coincidence of talent, resources, and timing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Management\/Success\/Leadership: Mostly Bullshit
\nhttp:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/managementsuccessleadership_mostly_bullshit\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Adams sometimes has very thought provoking things to say. Sometimes it is just bla bla bla (I am quite guilty of the same), but, as is said, the broken clock is right twice a day, so by shear verbiage he has to say something interesting from time to time (I hope I do the same). To me this is one of those days.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I spent a lot of the late ’80s and early ’90s reading the sort of management books he talks about and I agree whole heartedly: they are total crap. The reasons for success are actually quite simple: be in the right place at the right time with an open mind. Anything else is a recipe for failure. Get those three things right and you, too, will be hugely famous for having been on the right street corner at the right time and willing to say ‘yes’ when asked of you. It is really depressing that success is so capricious, but without being born to the right parents and going to the right schools (and nodding at the right time and place, never forget that!) the likelihood of any given individual, no matter how talented, of being successful is slightly better than buying lotto tickets. If I ever do become successful you dear readers can brag about how obvious it was in my clearly insightful writing and maybe get a bit of reflected glory. Of course, as is more likely to be the case, I am just one of billions who do no more than fantasize, you can chortle up your sleeve at what an idiot I am.<\/p>\n

I am not sure if someone else (famous) ever said it, but I like to use this to describe success:<\/p>\n

The only difference between an idiot and a genius is how they are treated by history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So far, I am an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Management\/Success\/Leadership: Mostly Bullshit http:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/managementsuccessleadership_mostly_bullshit\/ Scott Adams sometimes has very thought provoking things to say. Sometimes it is just bla bla bla (I am quite guilty of the same), but, as is said, the broken clock is right twice a day, so by shear verbiage he has to say something interesting from time to time (I … Continue reading “Success happens when you have a coincidence of talent, resources, and timing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,9,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-education","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}