Michael Schrage - Serious Play

Hello there! We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to: 1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators 2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators Episode 11 Many of us experience Tsundoku, the phenomenon of eagerly buying books but letting them pile up around our homes without reading them. But have you heard of Tsunbacku?  No? Well, that’s not surprising, as we just made it up! Tsunbacku is the opposite of Tsundoku. It’s the phenomenon of returning ‘back’ to those pile of books that continue to inspire you.  One such book is Serious Play, so we were delighted to chat with Michael Schrage.  Michael Who? Michael Schrage is a research fellow with the MIT Sloan School of Management's Initiative on the Digital Economy. His research, writing, and advisory work focuses on the behavioural economics of models, prototypes, and metrics as strategic resources for managing innovation risk and opportunity.  Michael is the author of multiple books, including The Innovator’s Hypothesis, Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?, Serious Play, and Recommendation Engines. Michael has run design workshops and executive education programs on innovation, experimentation, and strategic measurement for organisations worldwide and is currently pioneering work in silverware technologies designed to augment productive individuals' aspects, attributes, and talents. He is particularly interested in the co-evolution of expertise, advice, and human agency as technologies become smarter than those using them. Since 2017, Michael has been a guest editor for MIT SMR’s Big Ideas initiatives, including Future of Leadership, Future of the Workforce (2019-2020), Performance Management (2018-2019), and Strategic Measurement (2017-2018).  Contact Details LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mschrage/  Email [email protected]  Research Papers  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Schrage  Big Think https://bigthink.com/people/michaelschrage/  Michael’s Books  Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875848141/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3  Recommendations Engines  https://www.amazon.com/Recommendation-Engines-Press-Essential-Knowledge/dp/0262539071  The Innovators Hypothesis How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BSZC81Q/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2  Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HRM9X4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1  No More Teams! Mastering the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385476035/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5 Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394565878/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4  Additional Topics  Robert K Greenleaf - Servant Leadership  https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/  Roger Martin  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Martin_(professor)  Herbert A Simon  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon  Edward de Bono  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono  Erving Goffman  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman  Kenneth E Boulding  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Boulding  Virginia Satir  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir  Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir https://www.amazon.com/Peoplemaking-Condor-Books-Virginia-Satir/dp/0285648721