Michael Schrage

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Concepts

Schrage's Law of Networks: The surest way to add value to a network is to connect it to another network

Schrage's Law of Ideas: There is no idea so good that it's not pushed well past the point of its diminishing returns.

The most important product of 'the network' is 'the networker.' The kinds of networks we want to design depends on what kind of people we want our customers, suppliers and colleagues to be.

This quote from the philosopher/mathematician Alfred Whitehead made a big
impression on me -- particularly when I saw its date.

"The reason why we are on a higher imaginative level is not because we have finer imaginations, but because we have better instruments. In science, the most important thing that has happened over the last forty years is the advance in instrumental design."

A.N. Whitehead
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
Cambridge University Press 1925

Interviews

Source	Title
Ubiquity	"Michael Schrage on Innovation"
Educom Review	"Technology, Silver Bullets and Big Lies"
Cisco Systems' Expert Perspectives	"Q&A with MIT's Michael Schrage: The Path to Innovation"
LiNE Zine	"Our Shared Playground: An interview with Michael Schrage"
Reveries Magazine	"The Ethnology of Innovation"
Darwin Magazine	"Guru Guide"
Sociable Media	"Toward a More Collaborative PowerPoint: Q&A with Michael Schrage"
HR.COM	"Interview with Michael Schrage on Implementation"
Forbes	"Wal-Mart Shows it Takes More then Tech"

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