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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "As Paul Graham says, VCs miss good startups all the time, but it's extraordinarily rare for one to talk about it publicly until long after the occasion. I think humility in business is a powerful thing. It speaks of a willingness to admit fallability and a desire to learn. Which is why it is so absurd that there is so little of it."

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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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Learning now vs success/failure

This resonated with me this morning: Roethlisberger argues that people who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question. They ask, “what is the secret of success” when they should

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A bit of Block wisdom

Philip Bonser picked up on my recent post about dealing with complex issues. I liked this quote he found from Peter Block ..we have a deeply held belief that the

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Rebooting

Reboot 7 was one of the best events I attended last year and I’m looking forward to Reboot8. I really like how they’re describing the format. 50% conference 50% unconference

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Improv to Performance

I’m joining a few friends in putting together a series of workshops leading on to a live Improv show. The workshops will be on Tuesday evenings in central London starting