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John Seely Brown Biography

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John Seely Brown, born in 1940, is a renowned figure in an unknown field.

“It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.”

Ifs Humans Said Wanted Lasts Lost Moon Data Last Time Scratches Expertise Nasa

Book:The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface

Source: The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface

“Processes don't do work, people do”

People Process

Author:John Seely Brown

“Conversation is a catalyst for innovation”

Conversation Innovation Catalyst

Author:John Seely Brown

“The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.”

Important Business Research Invention Corporate Corporations Labs

Author:John Seely Brown

“The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.”

Fighting Letting Go Gold Harder Assumption Goodbye Letting You Go Letting Go And Moving On

Author:John Seely Brown

“The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.”

Has Beens Important Culture Individual Creation Products Development Innovation Corporate Unpredictable Rapids Aptitude Organizational Product Development

Author:John Seely Brown

“It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.”

People World Way Needs Enough Helping Education Possibility Insight New Ways Grind Pouring Evoke Eyeglasses

Author:John Seely Brown

“For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.”

Thinking World Needs Wells Done Process Design Objects Type Concepts Institutions Things Done

Author:John Seely Brown

“If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.”

Ifs Whole Together Turns Social Space Knowledge Technology Learning Information Design Management Milieu

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“If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.”

Ifs Fun

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“The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.”

“Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.”

Practice Flow Rail

Book:Storytelling in Organizations

Source: Storytelling in Organizations

“The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.”

Needs Play Happens Imagination Keys Innovation Ingredients

Author:John Seely Brown

“People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.”

People Knows Needs Mean Matter Know How Pieces Information

Author:John Seely Brown

“The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.”

Today Jobs Making Money

Author:John Seely Brown

About the Author

Born: 1940
Known for: Author
Quotes: 16

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Storytelling in OrganizationsRelated source material

The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New PrefaceRelated source material

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