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Peter Sims

Bestselling author, founder & CEO of Parliament, inc., and a founder of BLK SHP.

Peter Sims is a best-selling author, the founder & CEO of Parliament, inc., and a founder of BLK SHP (“black sheep”). His latest book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, which grew out of a long collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the d.school), as well as his previous work in venture capital. He was also the coauthor with Bill George of the best-seller True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, a member of General Electric’s Innovation Advisory Panel, an Innosight Fellow, and the co-founder of Fuse Corps, a social venture that places entrepreneurial leaders on year-long grassroots projects with mayors to tackle some of America’s most pressing problems, and is Chair of the Advisory Board.
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Little Bets
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Little Bets

by Peter Sims

Little bets. Peter Sims tells us they’re a LOT wiser than bet-it-all-and-pray big bets. He shows us the wisdom of the little bets approach via fascinating stories highlighting the extraordinary success of everyone from Chris Rock mastering a performance to Pixar creating their ingenious films. Big Ideas we explore include how to build our growth mindset muscles, going from suck to unsuck, smallifying, creating small wins and doing things to discover things.

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In this era of ever-accelerating change, being able to create, navigate amid uncertainty, and adapt using an experimental approach will increasingly be a vital advantage. The way to begin is with little bets.
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Being rigorous about spotting flaws and continuing to push toward excellence is essential to creative achievement.
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As John Lasseter expresses his perfectionism, we don’t actually finish our films, we release them.
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The key is to appreciate that we can’t plot a series of small wins in advance, we must use experiments in order for them to emerge.
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Pixar directors understand what seasoned entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and agile software developers do: The faster they fail, the faster they will discover promising opportunities.
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Another benefit of small wins is less immediately obvious: They enable the development of the means to attain goals.
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