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Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business
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Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

by Thor Muller, Lane Becker
April 2012
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
7h 10m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Let's Get Moving

When it comes to developing the skill of motion it's pretty easy to take the first step. In fact, odds are good that you're already putting yourself in motion, at least in small doses. Especially if you're a smoker.

Smoking, though deleterious to your personal health, turns out to be surprisingly valuable to the health of many organizations for a very simple reason: rules and regulations that forbid smoking in the workplace end up driving most smokers in a particular office building to the closest convenient spot to feed their habit—often the area right outside the front of the building. There, in a common environment and with a forced timeframe—the five minutes or so it takes to smoke a cigarette—any number of conversations ...

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ISBN: 9781118276938