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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