DorobekInsider Interactive Book Club - Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common?

Bestselling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas. Rather than believing they have to start with a big idea or plan a whole project in advance trying to foresee the final outcome, they make a series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning from lots of little failures and from small but highly significant wins that allow them to happen upon unexpected avenues and realize extraordinary outcomes.

This keynote teams Peter Sims with Dr. David McClure, Associate Administrator of the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the General Services Administration.  McClure is a practitioner of taking “little risks” in the name of innovation to achieve “big results,” including the GSA’s use of USA.gov to reach citizens, launch of data.gov and making mobile gov initiative, and implementation of FedRAMP

Chris Dorobek, Founder, Publisher and Editor of DorobekInsider, will lead an interactive discussion between Sims and McClure and the audience to examine how the government can practice a key set of simple but ingenious experimental methods to achieve success with less.