Earning Serendipity: Four Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work

For some people, success seems fated or shrouded in mystery. But in Earning Serendipity, Glenn Llopis shows that most positive changes in fortune--in careers or in corporate ventures--are no mystery at all.

We all have control over the path to prosperity. Progression along that path is the result of a rare combination of skills that readers can develop and apply in their careers, businesses, and lives. These four skills are

• Seeing with circular vision: Broaden your observation beyond what you seek and beyond the obvious details before you.
• Sowing entrepreneurial seeds: When good vision is met with consistent, hand-dirtying execution every day the result is a stable, growing fortune.
• Growing seeds with the greatest potential: Learn how to recognize the most promising opportunities and give them the right amount of 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. And with the skills outlined in this book, readers will be catapulted onto the path of prosperity.

Glenn Llopis (pronounced YO-pēs) is a Cuban American executive, entrepreneur, senior advisor, and speaker to Fortune 500 companies and organizations in retail, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, and beyond. He is the bestselling author of the books Earning Serendipity, The Innovation Mentality, Leadership in the Age of Personalization, and Unleashing Individuality. In November 2024, Glenn will launch his forthcoming book titled, Make Reinvention Your Superpower. He has been a leadership strategy contributor to Forbes since 2010, and also contributes to the Harvard Business Review and Entrepreneur magazine. Glenn was recognized as a top 100 leadership speaker and business thinker by Inc. magazine. He is a faculty member at the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

Since 2019, GLLG has produced, hosted and designed the content strategy for seven LAOP thought leadership summits and for more than 100 episodes of the Personalization Outbreak podcast, all featuring executives from corporate, healthcare and higher education. Glenn has prepared more than 450 speakers, moderated over 100 panel discussions, interviewed more than 100 guests for the podcast, and led an executive consortium of 112 people to deeply examine the strategic insights and trends related to personalization in the workplace and in the marketplace. He is known for his unique and dynamic ability to facilitate and mediate roundtables and conduct executive coaching to propel next-level thinking for senior executives, leaders, and managers globally.