Obliquity

Recent posts by "Rich...! and Martin Hattingh spur me to link to John Jay's brilliant exposition of obliquity.
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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Rich…! kicks around some interesting ideas in his seductively titled post “Sex isn’t sexy kissing is” (but sex remains the endgame) He’s responding to Martin Hattingh’s thinking:

Profit? Nah, it doesn’t really interest me per s

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Fun and Simplicity

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Difficult Conversations 8: Tilts

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Doing “nothing”

Stuey the Coach introduced me to a nice piece of jargon from the sports world: in-task silence. That’s where the coach watches his player(s) but doesn’t actively intervene. Whilst this

Fast, slow or unhurried?

Neil Perkin describes two contrasting talks about Fast and Slow in Marketing. Adam Morgan shares some interesting examples of businesses that thrive on speed: a 2014 Harris Poll.. found that 90%