PETER SIMS is the co-author with Bill George of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestselling book True North. His work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and TechCrunch and he is a contributor to the Reuters and Harvard Business Review blogs. He received an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he and several classmates established a popular course on leadership. He has spoken or advised at such organisations as Cisco Systems, Eli Lilly, Current Media, Molson Coors, Qualcomm and Frost & Sullivan. He previously worked in venture capital with Summit Partners, a leading investment company, and was part of the team that established the firm's London office. He is founder of BLK SHP Enterprises, Inc., with an innovation advisory services arm called BLK SHP Innovation. His latest book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries.
