Enter Peter Sims, co-author of the bestseller True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, with Bill George.

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Then we are more likely to learn and innovate faster, by making what Peter Sims calls Little Bets.

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This article is by Peter Sims, author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, coauthor with Bill George of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, and founder of The BLK SHP Enterprises, Inc.

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Among them is the notion that companies and individuals must stick to a plan, rather than iteratively experiment, making what Peter Sims calls little bets, and Johannson build upon by recommending purposeful bets, one that cause you to take action sooner rather than later, then learn from what happens.

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"The Sims is something that has the real potential to change the way we play games, " says Peter Moore , president of Sega USA, one of EA's staunchest rivals.

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