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Tag: authentic serendipity
Why Innovation Can’t Rely on Happy Accidents
1. Why Walpolean Serendipity Fails the Boardroom Test In most organizations, serendipity is still quietly understood as luck, coincidence, or […]
Authentic Serendipity: The True Lessons of the Three Princes of Serendip
In my previous essays, I explored how certain crucial concepts — unanticipated, anomalous, strategic — have quietly slipped out of […]
Why “Unexpected” Is the Wrong Word for Defining Serendipity
We speak endlessly about unexpected discoveries, unexpected encounters, and unexpected insights. That alone should make us pause. If something is […]
The Jester Leaves the Sin Bin — And Rewrites the Game
Why modern organisations urgently need new vocabulary when an old archetype is returning For nearly two hundred years the jester […]
Beyond Interpersonal Serendipity: Kairos as the Art of Timely Encounters
With this newsletter I will question “interpersonal serendipity” — those “X met Y and everything changed” tales — being not […]
Creative Desperation – When Urgent Action is Needed
You can’t fight fire with fire – right? So you may think and it’s a statement which 99 % of […]
The Abduction of Authentic Serendipity
As this, or any other, complex word grows in usage, it gathers up many new meanings… to the point where […]