Chengwei's interview with Professor Emeritus James G March at Stanford: video

Selected media features

How to Be a Smart Contrarian (HBR, 2021)

Recruiting? Random selection can help you tap into diversity dividend (I by IMD, 2021)

Exceptional Innovations: Leadership, Strategy Or Luck? (Forbes, 2021)

Don’t Underestimate the Power of Luck When It Comes to Success in Business (HBR, 2021)

Could random selection in recruitment improve workforce diversity? (HR Megazine, 2021)

Pay more attention to the “second best” (KnowledgeBrief, 2020)

Four major global changes coronavirus may cause (the-european, 2020)

Everything just a coincidence? The magic formula for luck (Tagesspiegel ,2020)

Review of Chengwei's book on luck (BizEd, 2020)

MBA masterclass: when strategy is a matter of luck (Financial Times, 2020)

Huge success in business is largely based on luck (Conversations, 2020)

Three Lessons Leaders Can Learn From Don Quixote About Strategizing (Forbes, 2019)

Three Tips for Generating a Performance Bonus Through Diversity (Psychology Today, 2019)

In Search of Behavioral Opportunities From Misattributions of Luck (Academy of Management Scholar interview, 2019)

Machines vs Humans: How Can We Adapt Organizations to AI? (Academy of Management Scholar interview, 2019)

Bonus in Mind (Briefing Magazine, 2019)

Why There’s More to Diversity than "Doing the Right Thing” (Crowe, The Art of Smart 2019 Report)

How to increase your lottery winnings (and succeed in business) by being contrary (The Conversation, 2019)

The Secrets of Success (ASLO Festival, 2019)

Should Family Businesses get over Nepotism? (Tharawat Magazine, 2019)

CV-blind faith? (Briefing Magazine, 2018)

2018 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Chengwei Liu (POETS&QUANTS, 2018)

Solving the Brexit Deadlock by Lottery (Psychology Today, 2018)

Post-Brexit UK should use the EU's size for a winning strategy (Yahoo Finance, 2017)

Why you shouldn't imitate Bill Gates if you want to be rich (BBC, 2017)

Being second best can make you the real winner in the end (the Times, 2017)

Battle Bias (Briefing Magazine, 2017)

Chengwei Liu included on Thinkers50 list (Thinkers 50, 2016)

Lucky chief executives are on thin ice (Financial Times, 2016)

Strike it lucky – the role luck plays in business success (WBS press release, 2016)

Overrated top managers (Der Spiegel, 2016)

Luck Rather Than Talent (BBC World Service, The Inquiry, 2016)

As luck may have it (British Airways, Business Life, 2016)

Hire unlucky leaders, they’re good value (Financial Times, 2016)

Rolling the dice: the importance of luck in business (Cambridge Network, 2016)

Who follows leader? (Briefing Magazine, 2016)

What the David and Goliath story teaches business about getting ahead (Conversations, 2015)

Why damaging nepotism persists? (CEO Magazine, 2015)

What’s the best business strategy? (Telegraph, 2015)

Sometimes Second-Best Makes a Better Role Model (New York Times, 2013)

Move Over, CEOs: Why The Second-In-Command May Be The Secret To Success (Forbes, 2012)

Don’t aim for the top unless you feel lucky (Financial Times, 2012)

Random lady luck is the mother of success (Irish Times, 2012)

To be a winner, learn from ‘losers’ (Warwick Fame, 2012)

Should we reward success? (BBC World Service, 2012)

Reward the second best, ignore the best (WBS press release, 2012)