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&lt;p&gt;If you&#39;re a regular Vault reader, you may know that we&#39;re always on the lookout for examples of careers and businesses that are a bit different. Not because we think they’re better, but because we recognize that not everyone can tread the same career path or check the same boxes—and, because of that, there&#39;s no one method of getting ahead or finding success in life or business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: this tale of how Noosa Yoghurt emerged from a taste of a new product on a trip to Australia into an enterprise that serves stores all across the US, in just 7 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Told by company co-founder Koel Thomae, the most startling admission in the video is that &quot;When we launched Noosa, we didn&#39;t have a business plan, we didn&#39;t have a real strategy and it just felt like, well, we should say yes to every opportunity.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that approach seems to have led to the firm getting in over its head in terms of marketing and logistics at a time when it simply wasn&#39;t ready.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But that was ultimately followed by a period of retrenchment and reevaluation, which, in the long term, seems to have done the firm no harm at all: Noosa is now available in more than 25,000 stores nationwide. Check out the full video, courtesy of Bloomberg, here:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;http://www.bloomberg.com/api/embed/iframe?id=47_mzcYMRreBQ8wf5cfleA&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As with so many success stories, Noosa&#39;s success seems to boil down to spotting an opportunity, seizing it, and figuring out the rest along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether you&#39;re an entrepreneur or a traditional employee, there are some useful lessons in that. Among them: growth (business or career) isn&#39;t linear; you don&#39;t necessarily need to be unique to succeed; there will be times where you&#39;ll overextend yourself and suffer setbacks; and it&#39;s not always necessary to have every detail of your journey mapped out before you set off.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;

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