Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2014
Sociologist Robert Merton first recognized this phenomenon in academic success and dubbed it “ the Matthew Effect ,” quoting a Bible passage in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Consider the case of two aspiring venture capitalists: both are very smart and good at what they do.
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