http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ en-us johnnie@johnniemoore.com 2010-08-31T18:00:50+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002611.php Robert Paterson's Weblog: The end of text books - the end to school?... 2611@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-31T18:00:50+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002610.php Being Weird - Only Dead Fish Neil Perkin points to research suggesting much of popularly accepted psychological research is limited by the worldview of western industrialised democracies, and misleads us about how the wider world population thinks. Maps: How... 2610@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-30T18:01:01+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002609.php Consortiumnews.com Craig Murray gives his account of the consequences of not towing the party line for the Foreign Office. Bureaucraicies/hierarchies at their worst.... 2609@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-29T18:00:51+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002608.php 2608@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-28T18:00:58+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002607.php Blockbuster tells Hollywood studios it's preparing for mid-September bankruptcy | Company Town | Los Angeles Times Yikes. And I suspect the list of organisations who should be paying attention include a lot of higher education bodies, IMHO. Studies Show... 2607@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-27T18:00:38+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002606.php I'm co-hosting a workshop in Finland on October 14th, alongside Simo Routarine and Viv McWaters. This will be part of the IAF Europe Conference in Helsinki. Here's a bit of the blurb: Status, or power, games are inherent in meetings... 2606@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-27T09:37:02+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002604.php The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy More on the theme of how power corrupts... 2604@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-25T18:00:57+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002603.php Fascinating report from The Economist: How to tell when your boss is lying. Researchers identify a number of patterns common to CEOs and CFOs who turn out, with hindsight, to have misled analysts. Apparently, the liars tend to make more... 2603@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2010-08-25T08:47:47+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002602.php You probably know the story, quite possibly apocryphal, of Ernest Shackleton's newspaper ad for crew for his expedition to the South Pole:MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. LOW WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG HOURS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS. SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND... 2602@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2010-08-23T21:38:53+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002601.php Harrison Owen on Open Space, via Viv McWaters' blog Lyrical and rather brillant stuff... 2601@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-23T18:00:59+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002600.php Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” | KurzweilAI Linear thinking about the future is hardwired into our brains. Linear predictions of the future were quite sufficient when our brains were evolving. At that time,... 2600@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-20T18:00:56+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002599.php We've had takers for 23 of the 30 places at We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (London, evening of September 6th, free). People are coming from as far away as Berlin and Madrid, which I wasn't expecting. Perhaps we're... 2599@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-19T18:14:40+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002598.php The Dialogue Experiment A nice description of one man's experiment with David Bohm's approach to dialogue. I found this in a twitter exchange with @CoCreatr that started with a tweet about the noise of the builders outside my flat.... 2598@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-19T18:01:04+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002597.php Everyone's seems to be into co-creation and crowdsourcing these days. Here's a lovely reality check for lazy brands who assume too much about what to expect. It's the phenomenon of "yes I'd love for you to collaborate by washing my... 2597@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Collaboration 2010-08-19T10:39:37+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002596.php 2596@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2010-08-18T18:00:47+00:00