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Why I won't be rushing to attend KM conferences This is a rant. I don't rant much on the blog these days, as I'd rather be doing stuff I like than railing against things I don't. But once in a while, the provocation gets the better of me. When...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on February 28, 2013
I really hate panel sessions I hardly ever go to meetings that promise a panel format. I was recently reminded why. It seems to me that as humans we are hugely programmed to play together, and conversation can be a very satisfying form of play....
Posted by Johnnie Moore on October 31, 2012
The futility of Q and A I'm not saying it's always a bad idea. But it usually is. I mean the conventional thing we seem to do after listening to presentations: the audience is invited to take part in a question-and-answer session. We're all so used...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on October 17, 2010
Government reports I have a longstanding beef about what I call celebrity government reports. The MO is this: some contentious issue arises in society. The government responds by appointing someone to do a report. The choice of author is often capricious but...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 2, 2010
Enough crappy conferences, already I'm getting to a certain age and I think I've been to enough crappy conferences and events in this lifetime. I am all for adventure and risking failure. But I'm also in favour of learning from experience. So I'm not...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on February 9, 2010
Change myths This HBR post attempts to evaluate Obama's record on change management, based on a four step model. I'm instinctively wary of models and this one strikes me as typically trite and questionable. The first step is to "make the case...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 30, 2010
Behaviour change, revisited Please don't take this too literally, I just need to get this off my chest. A while back, Mark posted some good provocative challenges to notions about behaviour change. Geoff has just weighed in with some good thoughts of his...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on October 1, 2009
Change management and mistaking green for gold A few years back, a well-known consultancy business decided to abandon its dress convention of dark suits and white shirts and said folks could dress casual. But quite soon, they decided to make it a bit clearer just what counted...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on July 9, 2009
Bourn impudent Warning: bad language ahead. I rarely read newspapers or magazines, but I do regularly pick up Private Eye. Lately, the Eye has done a terrific job uncovering the lifestlye - and that is the right word - of Sir John...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on October 25, 2007
Podcast: Shadow in Organisations (part 2) Here's part 2 of my podcast conversation with Annette Clancy and Matt Moore. You'll find part 1 here. Our chat about the shadow side of organisations branches off here into looking at the role played by Knowledge Management (and Human...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on October 8, 2007
Not computers and not children but rather like chimps I keep meaning to write a long, well-argued rant against a basic assumption in much corporate thinking: that we're all basically computers on legs that simply need reprogramming to achieve excellence. Excellence, in this context, is a little hard to...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on July 6, 2007
What's in a logo? The new logo for the 2012 Olympics has been launched, accompanied by the customary list of contrived quotes about what it allegedly conveys to people. These always sound as daft as wine critics finding notes of rhubarb and spinach in...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on June 4, 2007
Enough moralising, already In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland says The revolutionary public space that online debate represents is in danger of becoming stale and claustrophobicIt's a longish piece that is a bit like one of my terrible college essays, on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand, but the overall...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on April 14, 2007
Code of conduct Oh dear, I'm still feeling a bit ranty this morning. Perhaps this will exorcise my demons? Here is a draft code of conduct for this blog. 1 If you look thatat the entire content of this blog, you'll get some...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on April 1, 2007
Some professional communication James Byford posts about the link up between Technorati and Ogilvy. James raises some good questions about what it means. I find the comments Technorati make about it depressingly full of hype and jargon. To start with, could we be...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on February 10, 2007

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