links for 2010-07-21

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

  • "Part of the problem with meritocracy is that it homogenizes in the name of diversity: It skims the cream from every race and class and population puts all of the best and brightest through the same educational conveyor belt, and comes out with a ruling class that’s cosmetically diverse but intellectually conformist and that tends to huddle together rather than spreading out to enrich the country as a whole. "

  • In most contexts, we're used to seeing diminishing marginal returns – on investment of money or time. This post suggests that in a networked learning environment, learning may accelerate with time.

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Conversational leadership

David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a

Scaling or evolving?

This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that

Jersey

I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them

Badgers and the joy of complexity

Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to

More on what is marketing…

Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier

Chautauqua

I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter

Microsoft’s embarassing metadata

Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of

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Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

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Enough already

Oli Barrett has two related posts about not over-doing things. In that spirit my blogging activity for today will consist of pointing to them.

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Innov, already?

Here’s a suggested experiment for managers: forget about innovation. Lots of people will be horrified at this suggestion believing it’s vital for senior managers to drive innovation in organisations. In

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Beyond the black box

Some months back Ross Dawson sent me a free copy of his book, Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: Leadership in Professional Services. I am not a prolific reader and the book

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links for 2011-05-13

The benefits of meditation: Neuroscientists explain why the practice helps tune out distractions and relieve pain Advice from Jonathan Franzen | On Writers' Block I found Franzen's take inspiring and