As part of my Clore fellowship I have agreed to produce a Masters-equivalent piece of research around a particular area of ‘leadership’ that interests me.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since our first residential course, and with our next one coming up this weekend, I thought I would post what I’ve come up with so far.
Anyone following my lifestream or my Delicious feed will have noticed a lot of links to things around ’serendipity’ appearing.
I’m scoping out a possible subject for research: Does successful innovation work by enabling serendipity to occur? Can you lead by enabling more, and more valuable serendipitous encounters and events to happen within the organisation or network you are part of?
So this is a mind-map of some of my thinking, and here are a bunch of links on serendipity I’ve found so far. It seems like there’s been very little or nothing done in this area so far - is there a reason for that?
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