Getting wow into education

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Johnnie Moore

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

A Swedish teacher wonders how to compete with World of Warcraft. Good question the sort we might chat about on Wednesday afternoon at NESTA. There’s room for few more if you’re interested.

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Rambling thoughts on models

I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile

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Concreting Complexity

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Rewriting history…

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Who says fun is dangerous?

I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe

Yes, and…

A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity

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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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Summer Season…

When I moved to Cambridge last year, my dream was to get a place where I could have people stay. All through the winter I sat in the house wondering

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Indirect

Hugh says As I’m fond of saying blogs are good for making things happen indirectly etc. But journalists seem to have a problem getting their head around it. “Indirectly” is

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New York bound

I’ll be in New York at the end of the month for one week. Anyone interested in connecting there let me know. I’m hoping to do some Improv whilst in

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The Tyranny of Effort

I’ve been doing quite a bit of training lately, as a participant that is. A mixture of improvisation and clowning. The latter, by the way, is like a highly refined