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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • A researcher suggests there may be a link between working in a slaughterhouse and committing crime in the community. This morning I've been thinking again about "closing the field" – how we easily miss the external side effects of apparently productive systems. Hat tip: Dave Pollard https://bit.ly/aMzCYX

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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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Taking the emphasis off innovation

Roland Harwood questions where innovation is taking us: You could argue that our most pressing global challenges – such as the financial crisis and climate change – are as a

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All grapefruit are lumberjacks

Sorry for the attention seeking headline but I wanted to see how far I could take this idea of making sweeping generalisations as a way of attracting attention. I also

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Practice, practice

Like many of my friends, I like to talk about facilitation as a practice. It isn’t a straightforward process of identifying problems and choosing the right recipe to solve them.

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Freakonomics and complexity

Dave Pollard reviews Freakonomics. Like Dave I think it’s important to see the difference between complex and complicated. (This is the jumping-off point for my More Space chapter, to be