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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Interesting research suggests just giving the homeless money rather than advice or other forms of support, might be more effective. Also looks at other examples where social issues are treated by offering money. Would be interested in the nuances because "Punished by Rewards" has a lot of evidence of the downsides to financial incentives in many contexts. Though the homeless case doesn't really fit the "incentive" frame, some of the other egs in this piece do.

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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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Kindred spirits

Last week I met Matt Moore visiting from Australia. I didn’t know Matt at all but he introduced himself as a reader of my blog (obviously an endangered species) and

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Purpose

Daniel Pink suggests that explaining the purpose of work can have a dramatic effect on productivity: Have you ever asked yourself why you’re in business? Good stuff. It’s something that

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Easy?

Leadership? Innovation? Knowledge Sharing? There’s so much said about all of these and much of it of the hand-wringing kind. As I’ve said before a lot of those conversations are

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Bad food and teambuilding

The caterer for an event recently offered Viv a variety of tasty choices for a forthcoming event. His final option was: bad food (for team building in adversity) I had