Gaining right resources is usually due to luck, for example:

  • Invested in a product idea that happened to be successful
  • Bought stocks in a company that shortly after won a big contract
  • Selected the right technology that happened to become dominant
  • Entering a market as a first-mover which then exploded

It does not mean that we cannot help our luck.

We can do that in two ways, build capabilities to:

  1. Identify opportunities
  2. Exploit those opportunities