John Seely Brown

“Institutions designed for push cannot easily accommodate pull.”

— John Seely Brown

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

— John Seely Brown

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

— John Seely Brown

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

— John Seely Brown

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

— 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…

— John Seely Brown

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost…

— John Seely Brown

Processes don't do work, people do

— John Seely Brown

The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the…

— John Seely Brown

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

— 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…

— John Seely Brown

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

— John Seely Brown

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

— 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…

— John Seely Brown

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

— John Seely Brown

If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.

— 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,…

— John Seely Brown