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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "The journeys that we take students of all ages on just about always entail helping people confront and overcome their discomfort with trying to solve unstructured problems (that the faculty have not already solved — and in most cases — don't know how to solve). When the d.school process works right, that confidence means that, even when people aren't sure what methods to use, they have the energy and will to keep pushing forward, to be undaunted when ideas don't work, to keep trying new ideas"

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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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Ideas = disruption

Tim Kastelle points out that people mostly don’t like new ideas. Novelty disturbs and repels – no wonder it’s so hard to get our great new ideas across. Machiavelli was

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Improv blog

I’ve been doing a bit of work building a weblog for the Applied Improv Network. It’s taking shape now and is worth a look if you’re interested in how Improv

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Blogs can pay

Ton Zijlastra shows me his new wiki with some great information about the business value of blogging.

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The ‘Phoric

Rob Paterson and I have come up with an idea for a series of podcasts we’re calling The ‘Phoric. That’s phoric as in euphoric metaphoric and maybe some other phorics