Go Luck Yourself

Contagious

His point is that a lot of luck is about not having a head so buried in a task that you’re blind to all the other opportunities around you,’ says Lucky Generals co-founder Andy Nairn, who has ...

Little Black Book

In the book, Andy (who has been named Campaign’s top strategist for the last two years running) argues that luck is a four-letter-word in business circles. He contends that organisations spend too ...

Little Black Book

If you’re looking for a way to think about the year ahead without inducing a panic attack, one of the founders of Lucky Generals, Andy Nairn, has launched his first book. And it might provide a ...

Creative Brief

When we’re under pressure, as we all are now, we tend to focus on our own sector, our own organisation or even our own department. But many of the biggest commercial ideas actually come from ...

Creative Review

This is set to change with Nairn’s forthcoming book Go Luck Yourself picking apart the subject of luck through a set of 40 principles to “stack the odds in your brand’s favour”. The book is ...

Marketing Communication News

GO LUCK YOURSELF explores the power of luck in building a brand. It’s published by Harriman House (whose other authors include Dave Trott and Richard Shotton) and is available for pre-order now, ...

Muse By Clio

Crazy People was a pretty mediocre film, from 1990. It starred Dudley Moore as Emory Leeson, a stressed-out adman who is tired of peddling lies to the public. As his mental health unravels, he starts ...

Ad News

Andy Nairn, founder of ad agency Lucky Generals (best known for its Amazon Christmas campaigns), has written a book, Go Luck Yourself, where he argues that luck is a four-letter-word in business ...

Campaign

Luck is a four-letter-word in business circles. You won’t hear it at the AGM or read it in the annual report. You won’t find it in any awards entry, training manual or textbook. Nobody ever puts ...

WARC

Andy Nairn has just launched a new book called Go Luck Yourself: 40 ways to stack the odds in your brand’s favour. Here, he picks out 5 lucky lessons from some classic effectiveness case-studies.

More About Advertising

Lucky Generals co-founder Andy Nairn has just launched a new book called Go Luck Yourself: 40 ways to stack the odds in your brand’s favour. Here, he picks out 10 of the luckiest moments in ...

Marketing Week

‘Go Luck Yourself: 40 ways to stack the odds in your brand’s favour’ is available to pre-order now, from Amazon or Waterstones. Andy will be donating all his royalties to an organisation called ...

The Marketing Society

This month Andy Nairn, Founder of Lucky Generals, launches his first book. Go Luck Yourself, which contains '40 ways for you to stack the odds in your brand’s favour'. In this exclusive piece he ...

Mumbrella

In recent years, marketers have become fond of saying that “data is the new oil”. I’ve never been a fan of this expression (I’m old enough to remember similar pronouncements about ...

Mediatel

Go Luck Yourself, a book written by Lucky Generals founder, Andy Nairn will be published in June. It’s all about the role of luck in building a brand. In this exclusive extract for Mediatel News, ...

Business at Bedtime

In Go Luck Yourself, Andy Nairn show you how to uncover your organisation's hidden treasures. How to spot opportunities in unexpected places. How to turn misfortune into good fortune. And how to ...

Management Today

In short, luck is a powerful force in life – and that includes business. We shouldn’t dismiss it as superstition or meekly accept our fate. While it might be true that “the harder you work, the ...

Management Today

In short, luck is a powerful force in life – and that includes business. We shouldn’t dismiss it as superstition or meekly accept our fate. While it might be true that “the harder you work, the ...

Mediatel

In a second exclusive extract from Go Luck Yourself, a book written by Lucky Generals founder, Andy Nairn, he discusses D&I's role in creativity and reminds us of some much-loved aliens

Ad Age

So instead of setting up your process with the idea of “leaving nothing to chance,” why not plan for luck and take active steps to stack the odds in your favor? Andy Nairn is founding partner of ...

The Marketing Book Podcast

Andy Nairn has led a charmed life. He stumbled into advertising after studying Law at Edinburgh University. Almost 30 years later, he’s one of the world’s most respected brand strategists and a ...

Creative Boom

With nearly 30 years in the advertising industry under his belt, Lucky Generals co-founder Andy Nairn knows luck is as important to success as hard graft. With his new book Go Luck Yourself revealing ...

Just a Chat With

In this episode we sat down with Andy Nairn who is a Founding Partner at Lucky Generals.

With nearly 30 years’ experience in the creative industry, Andy is now one of the world’s most respected ...

Having a GAS!

Andy has written a new book called 'Go Luck Yourself: 40 ways to stack the odds in your brand's favour', which you can pre-order here.

In the book, one of the world’s leading brand strategists ...

The Looking Glass

So if you find yourself running from meeting to meeting, brief to brief, financial statement to financial statement, maybe stop for a moment and ask yourself whether you’ve left any room for luck. ...

Marketing Starter For Ten

For the latest in The Marketing Society podcast series, Starter for Ten – a series of ten-minute talks from clever people in our network about things of interest to marketers, we have a founding ...

Ice Crean for Everyone

We talked about luck, Andy's life and career, and this being the podcast where play meets strategy, Andy was gracious to participate in a playful exercise we put together with a couple of examples of ...

Suits & Sneakers TV

We’re honoured that Andy would share his knowledge with our community and found him the legend to talk to that his reputation suggests. Andy is one of the 3 founders of Lucky Generals, a creative ...

The Behaviour Business Podcast

I spoke to Andy about his first book GO LUCK YOURSELF, which is a fantastic read and full of wit and wisdom about how brands can use luck, good and bad, to their advantage. A huge thanks to Andy for ...

East meds West

In Episode 3 we invite our first guest. I chat to Andy Nairn, co-founder of the International advertising agency Lucky Generals and rated by Business Insider as one of the top 5 Creative people in ...

Shots

In Go Luck Yourself, Nairn examines how luck is often considered a four-letter-word in business circles but that, in truth, fortune plays a part in every success story as well as in every failure. ...

The Drum

So don’t be afraid to walk on the cracks, smile when you see that black cat crossing your path and take a detour under that ladder if you can. Because sometimes, a bit of misfortune can turn out to ...

Uncensored CMO

We have all said it haven’t we? They just got lucky. But how much of our success in business is down to luck vs what we do with our luck, or lack of it. In a brilliant new book called Go Luck ...

Perlego

Andy is an award-winning brand strategist and creative in the advertising world. In 2013, he co-founded Lucky Generals, which describes itself as ‘a creative company for people on a mission’. His ...

Forbes

Andy Nairn knows that luck plays a bigger role than most realise. As one of the founders of ad agency Lucky Generals, with clients including Amazon, Virgin Atlantic, Yorkshire Tea and the Co-op, he ...

Think Advisor

In his book, “Go Luck Yourself: 40 ways to stack the odds in your brand’s favour” (Harriman House – 2021), Nairn, named one of the five leading creative people in advertising by Business ...

42courses Podcast

In our latest podcast, we chat to the incredible Andy Nairn on his new book “Go Luck Yourself”, 40 tips on how to bring more luck into your life.

Andy is a creative tour de force, and is the ...