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Johnnie Moore

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

… of favourite books here’s an old post on why I think The Halo Effect is on my shortlist. Short version: it’s a powerful antidote to most of the glib delusions that pervade most of the other business books we read.

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