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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Scabrous takedown of blue sky thinking. ""Nudge unit". "Big society". "Hug a hoodie". They sound like the titles of nauseating business-psychobabble books: the sort of timewasting Who Moved My Cheese? groovy CEO bullshit routinely found cluttering the shelves of every airport bookshop in the world. As well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity – a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for David Bowie at his experimental peak – these books are the direct suit-and-tie office-dick equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a blancmange of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors."

  • Good stuff from Geoff Brown

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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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All brand and no business

johnmoore (no relation) is on the money commenting on the demise of Song: Hmm … the brand should never create the business … hmm. That’s exactly what I thought today

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I don’t know

Chris Corrigan regularly reminds me of why I admire his work. Here’s the latest reason. Today I ran into an interesting situation. I was in a conversation about a community

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Meetings and complexity

There’s a good post at FacilitatorU: Avoid Collective Incompetence. It looks at why we suffer so much disappointment and frustration in meetings. Part of this problem though can be attributed

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The opposite of hype

Adrian Trenholm points to Bessemer Venture Partners Anti Portfolio. Essentially a list of their big mistakes. I agree with Adrian, it’s a good example of marketing that avoids the presentation