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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "It turns out that ‘sand avalanches’ have an analogue in the brain’s ‘neural avalanches’ (that is in the way that neurons communicate with each other). Even further it is precisely at this critical border of disorder and chaos that the brain functions. That is to say the brain is always on the edge of chaos. The article explains that this self-organised criticality (on the edge of chaos) is crucial for a proper functioning of the brain." HT John Hagel

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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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The power of less

Viv has a great post inspired by Matthew May’s book on Elegance. Here’s a snippet but I recommend the whole thing. We humans seem to be hard-wired to believe that

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Power corrupts

I think it corrupts deeply and instantly in ways we often don’t notice. And sometimes it becomes more obvious. In the last 24 hours I’ve meed made aware of this,

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Abundance and scarcity

Piers Young’s thoughts on Abundance and the wish to be spoon fed get me thinking about cleverness online and its good and bad sides.

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De-coded

Tim O’Reilly’s proposal for a bloggers code of conduct is looking increasingly forlorn. Over at gapingvoid Kathy Sierra rejects it. And Tristan Louis gives it a well-deserved fisking (hat tip: