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Group intelligence and small cues Aaron Saenz reports research from MIT into collective intelligence. They studied the effectiveness of a series of groups of varying sizes and performing a number of different tasks. Then they attempted to pin down the key factors that led to...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 29, 2011
Mention your pet frog I am huge believer that little details can make bid differences, and I'm enjoying Richard Wiseman's little book, 59 Seconds for its curation of some. Here's one good one: In an experiment on negotiation, researchers compared the effectiveness of two...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 25, 2011
Just a tweet This tweet from Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan caught my eye. With respect I am unsure what the Home Secretary thinks that she told GMP to do different. She listened but said nothing. Tactics were ours!I think twitter so lowers...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 17, 2011
Thought for the day @PhilosophyQuotz tweeted this:If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. - Sartre...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 17, 2011
Little bets Bob Sutton points to some interesting sources on the value of little ideas. He reviews Little Bets, a new book by Peter Sims. This modern masterpiece demonstrates that the most powerful and profitable ideas are produced by persistent people who...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on April 26, 2011
Small details and focussed attention Viv writes about activities that mess with our minds - science experiments on the one hand, improv games on the other. Both draw attention to how quickly we add interpretation to simple inputs. It's part of what makes us effective...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on November 6, 2010
The mundane can be interesting I don't get excited about companies changing their logos, but I liked this time lapse video of the four days to repaint a Virgin Atlantic Jumbo. I think there's an interesting moral about marketing. Sometimes something apparently mundane (the process...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 17, 2010
Crediting the captain, not the storm I liked this quote from Paul Seabright's The Company of Strangers.Politicians are in charge of the modern economy in much the same way as a sailor is in charge of a small boat in a storm. The consequences of their...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 8, 2010
Hold a meeting I posted this cartoon about six years ago*. It's one of those throwaway posts that I notice still gets picked up by others. I often sense that meetings which are apparently being organised to deal with a problem become, unwittingly,...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on August 7, 2010
It's all connected Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote, from the new book Superconnect:Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by a chain of which… some parts are continuous, though in the greater number of points continuity...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on July 26, 2010
Not trying too hard Jocelyn Glei writes about What we can learn from babies. She talks about the kind of meditative state in which a particular kind of creative thinking can happen. Edison allegedly trained himself to spend time in the twilight zone between...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on July 21, 2010
Willpower and its limits Nice report on research from Scientific American: Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question. They split people into two groups for a series of experiments. One group was primed...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on July 5, 2010
The power of touch I've long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it's good to see this research, reported by Ed Yong, that goes further, suggesting that the...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on July 4, 2010
Empathy and innovation Tim Kastelle has a good post about Empathy and Innovation. I'm fond of talking about "relationships before ideas" and Tim seems to be in similar territory. One of the supposed challenges of innovation is getting ideas to spread and Tim...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on May 24, 2010
Re-examining the familiar I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer's work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that they can perform it by rote, the individual steps that make up the skill come...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on May 21, 2010

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