Book Titles

Little Bets
How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

By Peter Smis

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1439170427
Categories: Discovery, Ideas, Iterative

27 Quotes Found

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Little Bets:

Bring rigorous about spotting flaws and continuing to push toward excellence is essential to creative achievement.

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Little Bets:

What the creation of low cost, rough prototypes makes possible is failing quickly in order to learn fast.

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Little Bets:

…prototyping: Potential users of ideas are more comfortable sharing their honest reactions when it’s rough… – Chris Thoen

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Little Bets:

…we are more likely to experience flow when we do work that appeals to our intrinsic interests that’s also aligned to our personal strengths.

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Little Bets:

…the highest paid person’s opinion (HiPPO) usually dominates how people make decisions inside most organizations.

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Little Bets:

People equate status and money with intelligence and insight, when often there’s little correlation.

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Little Bets:

Research evidence suggests a strong link between inquisitiveness and creative productivity.

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Little Bets:

…fostering a questioning mind is also fostering one that is predisposed to a growth perspective.

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Little Bets:

…a preponderance of evidence… indicates that diversity, be it of perspectives, experiences, or backgrounds, fuels creativity.

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Little Bets:

…lucky people tend to be open to opportunities (or insights) that come along spontaneously, whereas unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine, fixated on certain specific outcomes.

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