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Little Bets

How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries

Peter Sims author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:5th Jan '12

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Achieve momentous innovation by making Little Bets

How did Pixar go from producing CAT scan images to winning Oscars? How did Steve Jobs turn Apple into a world-beating company? How does Amazon's culture encourage innovation? How can you find the creative solutions demanded by our ever-changing world? This title provides answers to such questions.

How did Pixar go from producing CAT scan images to winning Oscars?
How did Steve Jobs turn Apple into a world-beating company?
How does Amazon's culture encourage innovation?
How can you find the creative solutions demanded by our ever-changing world?

The answer, according to renowned business thought-leader Peter Sims, is LITTLE BETS. In these fast-moving times, it's next to impossible to predict what's around the corner, and harder still to formulate a foolproof plan to deal with it. Truly innovative companies, Sims argues, don't get caught up in projections and predictions. Instead, they embrace uncertainty, take a chance, fail quickly and learn fast.

This method has formulated thousands of modern advances, from Google's PageRank to Starbucks coffee shops - if you harness its power, what could you achieve?

Highly engaging ... Little Bets will help you challenge the status quo and discover extraordinary new possibilities in whatever endeavor you're engaged in -- Howard Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks
An enthusiastic, example-rich argument for innovating in a particular way * Wall Street Journal *
Want a big idea? Start little. Whether you're an entrepreneur or an artist, Peter Sims shows you how big breakthroughs start with little bets -- Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick and Switch
Little Bets is easily the most delightful and useful innovation book published in the last decade -- Robert I. Sutton, author of Good Boss, Bad Boss
Put [t]his book on your reading list * TechCrunch *

ISBN: 9781847940490

Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 14mm

Weight: 163g

224 pages