23 Quotes by John Seely Brown

If you don't have a disposition to question, you're going to fear change. But if you're comfortable questioning, experimenting, connecting things—then change is something that becomes an adventure. And if you can see it as an adventure, then you're off and running.

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation.

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.

Processes don’t do work, people do.

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

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

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.

If I ain’t learning, it ain’t fun.

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.