Ep. 63 - Little Bets and Breakthrough Ideas: An Interview with Peter Sims In this episode, host Dave Goldberg welcomes Peter Sims, founder & CEO of Parliament, inc., and best-selling author of "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries". Join Peter and Dave to explore the concept and successes of making little bets vs. giant changes, and discover how…
Ep. 40 - Effectual Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Saras D. Sarasvathy What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial? How does an entrepreneur think differently than a manager? In this episode, host Dave Goldberg interviews Saras D. Sarasvathy, professor at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and author of "Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise". Join Saras and Dave to learn more about effectuation, how…
Christopher Chabris and Dan Simon have written a popular little book, The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us, and if you've never seen the namesake video watch below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo As explained elsewhere (here) in more detail, participants in the original 1999 study were asked to count the passes between basketball players, and roughly half missed the gorilla as it walked across…