"Imagine a world driven by curiosity, opportunity and a sense of connection, rather than by fear, scarcity and jealousy." (Dr Christian Busch, The Serendipity Mindset)

🍀 How to Create Your Own Luck: Prof. Christian Busch on Turning Chance into Opportunity! What if luck wasn’t random - but a skill you could develop? 🤔 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=R1jDv0… Join Christian Busch as he unpacks The Serendipity Mindset & shares how unexpected

How can we create "active luck" for impact and innovation? Looking forward to this upcoming NGO Academy keynote on The Serendipity Mindset (virtual/open to all). Join us? 🗓️ 21 May 2025 | 🕕 6:00–7:30pm CEST | 💻 Online 🔗 bit.ly/ngoserendipity

How we talk about luck—and serendipity—shapes how we experience it. In this conversation with Dr. K., we explore how language, culture, and mindset influence our ability to spot and act on the unexpected. From etymologies to leadership under uncertainty, we discuss how

A big thank you to the organizers of the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference for an inspiring few days! Beyond learning from so many great conversations (and sharing some of our recent work), I was also grateful for the chance to talk about the upcoming

Life’s twists aren’t always in our control; but how we respond is. It was a real pleasure to speak at the recent Learn-A-Thon hosted by PayPal, where we explored how "career luck" can be cultivated rather than left to mere chance. The idea isn’t to chase some forced notion of

Wonderful to see how much momentum the serendipity conversation is gaining at this year’s Academy of Management (Academy of Management): Annual Meeting: 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 have won 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (below), and there are around 20

“I asked myself: If this was the last day of my life, would I rather have dinner with the important customer or with her"? (Steve Jobs) In a recent Inc. Magazine article, Jessica Stillman shares a beautiful story (drawn from recently released emails) about how Steve Jobs met

One of my favorite conversations at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference was with Keith Hmieleski, about chance, serendipity, and all the beautiful unpredictabilities in between. His new paper with Andrew Fultz—who gave a superb presentation at last year’s Academy of

What if the most transformative learning moments aren't planned? A great new editorial by professor Sigrid Harendza in the GMS Journal for Medical Education explores the role of serendipity in medical education, and offers a powerful reminder for any field. From Fleming’s

🏆 Best Paper Award 2024 | Journal of Management Studies 🏆 goes to: 🔹 Christian Busch (New York University) for his outstanding paper: "Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization" Congratulations, Dr. Busch! #JMS #BestPaperAward

Human agency embeds fragility into systems, creating misfortune by design. Resilience depends on dismantling the patterns that make bad luck inevitable. Christian Busch blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

We often imagine serendipity as a lone genius having a sudden “eureka” moment. But in reality, it often unfolds collectively: through groups of people, across time. In this new Strategic Organization paper, Susan Hilbolling and Pernille Smith show how serendipity is less about

Duolingo’s CEO Calls This Mindset the Secret to Success. Science and Steve Jobs Agree inc.com/jessica-stillm…

A big thank you to everyone who joined our Strategic Management Society panel on The Strategic Role of Chance, Luck & Serendipity! Some insights from the session: - Henry Mintzberg posed the question, “Is serendipity itself serendipitous?” — a beautiful reminder that many of the most

For more than a decade I’ve studied serendipity: how people turn unexpected events into something positive. That work kept pointing me toward its opposite, zemblanity: the faculty of making unhappy discoveries “by design.” In this new Psychology Today article I explore why much of

A little over a year ago, our house burned down in the LA wildfires. That night, after evacuating, our then-three-year-old said, "I want to go home." But there was no going back, and that sentence has stayed with me ever since. That experience forced me to confront zemblanity:

Luck or strategy? 🍀 This St. Patrick’s Day, USC Marshall School of Business professor Christian Busch breaks down how “smart luck” works—and how to create more of it. ted.com/talks/christia…

We all know Christian Busch's Serendipity Mindset, but what is "zemblanity"? Watch one of the great TED Talks on how to think about unlucky discovery by design. go.ted.com/christianbusch