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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "What we’re currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience. Points and badges have no closer a relationship to games than they do to websites and fitness apps and loyalty cards."

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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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Conversation and depth

John Tropea has written a great post drawing together lots of threads about the role of conversations in what he calls organisational wellness and performance. We’re not machines, we’re mammals

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Money and happiness

Curt Rosengren has a nice post summarising some more research suggesting money and happiness don’t go hand-in-hand. Makes sense to me.

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Eagleton on Olins

Pat Kane points to Terry Eagleton’s scathing review of Wally Olins’ book “ On Brand” Here’s a snippet: Olins

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Distinctions

Jennifer Rice partly prompted by John Porcaro has been thinking about connections and artificial distinctions. I like this line of thought. I’d add that another dodgy idea is stereotyping. You