http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ en-us johnnie@johnniemoore.com 2009-06-20T08:56:05+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002218.php Roland at NESTA writesI firmly believe that the solutions to many (if not all) of our innovation problems are already out there somewhere; it's just that we need to get much better at finding them. We all know that too... 2218@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-06-20T08:56:05+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002217.php Neil Perkin highlights this video of a talk by conductor Itay Talgam. Talgam compares a variety of conducting styles as examples of leadership and explains how control gets in the way of relationship and creativity. If you don't have... 2217@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-06-19T10:04:12+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002216.php Chris Corrigan has an excellent post on dealing with cynicism, inspired by Euan Semple's mini-rant against pomposity. Snippet:I have recently had the experience of people saying to me that the work I do would never work with such-and-such a group... 2216@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-06-17T12:56:47+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002215.php I've been thinking about a couple of cookie-related stories I've noticed recently. I blogged the first a while back ago: Bob Sutton found this nugget in this reportOne of the simplest and yet most fascinating experiments to test the thesis... 2215@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-06-10T12:42:07+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002214.php I enjoyed Matthew Stewart's polemic against management education in The Atlantic. He recounts his success in management based on a mixture of philosphy and... winging it. After I left the consulting business, in a reversal of the usual order of... 2214@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-06-01T12:31:36+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002213.php Earl has a nice riff on Euan's post about the real value in networks being the people and not the technology. Euan puts a better suit on something I've been saying since I found out what end-to-end meant. That the... 2213@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Blogs & networks 2009-06-01T10:15:24+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002212.php I know I've posted this video before, but I've been thinking of it a lot lately. Watching our MPs in the wake of the expenses scandal has been like watching a minor version of Ceausescu moments.... 2212@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2009-05-20T22:09:03+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002211.php I wanted to say a little more about Matthew May's work on creative elegance. Matt's eloquent challenge is this:Conventional wisdom says that to be successful, an idea must be concrete, complete, and certain. But what if that’s wrong? What if... 2211@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-05-20T12:17:47+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002210.php I really enjoyed Matthew May's Change This manifesto, Mind of the Innovator: Taming the Traps of Traditional Thinking. So I was immediately drawn to his latest, Creative Elegance, The Power of Incomplete Ideas. I highly recommend it as a pleasant... 2210@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2009-05-20T11:49:11+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002209.php This video really makes me laugh. The humour might be lost on non-players of Warcraft, I don't know. It shows a group of players on a raid. One of them, Leroy Jenkins, takes a snack break while the rest strategise... 2209@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2009-05-19T12:10:13+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002208.php Kay Scorah and I enjoyed our first Day of Noticing workshop in Dublin in March. We had some very positive feedback from our first set of participants. So now we're taking bookings for London on June 15th. Here's a bit... 2208@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-05-11T15:48:41+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002207.php I've been thinking a lot lately about the film Twelve Angry Men. If you've not seen it, Henry Fonda plays the one guy on a jury reluctant to convict. He faces initially overwhelming hostility from his fellow jurors. Gradually, with... 2207@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ 2009-04-26T08:49:13+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002206.php Doug Rushkoff writes:First off, the Dark Ages were not dark. The Late Middle Ages, in particular, were extremely prosperous. Population and wealth went up, work hours went down. Height and health went up, death and taxes went down. This is... 2206@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2009-04-21T18:06:57+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002205.php Quite often in meetings there´s a big assumption that we must end with action planning, without which the event will be deemed unproductive. Action planning has its place, and Chris Corrigan has a good post looking at some choices in... 2205@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-04-21T13:33:43+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/002204.php Rob put up a great post the other day making a whole load of challenging points about how see the world. I want to pick a couple of his images to make a slightly narrower point about meetings and how... 2204@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2009-04-21T13:15:01+00:00