WHEN SERENDIPITY STRIKES
as an accident,” Napoleon Bonaparte once said. “Only a failure to recognize the hand of fate.” Leaving aside the emperor’s own ignominious fate (squalid exile on a remote island in the South Atlantic), any growth-focused, get-’er-done entrepreneur on the Inc. 5000 would surely have a bone to pick with Bonaparte: There accidents, and what determines your future comes down to how quickly and creatively you respond to them. Here, four
