links for 2010-05-20

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Hmm there's a bit of a theme to today's links eh?

  • "First, perhaps instead of asking people we’ve just met what they “do” (usually “for a living”), we should ask them what they care about. What keeps them awake at night. What they would die for. And likewise when others ask us what we “do” we should deflect the question and instead tell them what we really care about. If there’s an obvious disconnect between what we/they do and what we/they care about, that in itself should be the basis for an interesting and soul-searching conversation"

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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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Southwest paradox (2)

A couple more thoughts on The Southwest Paradox I blogged yesterday. When we chatted Michael Herman pointed out that the unsuccessful airlines can’t be separated clinically from Southwest. They’re the

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UK blogs and business

Today’s Sunday Telegraph talks about blogging belatedly getting on the corporate radar screen here in the UK: Big business battles to keep up with the bloggers. It looks at two

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Influence

I had lunch yesterday with Flemming Madsen who runs a successful business helping organisations figure out who is influential online. You tell Flemming what issues concern you, he’ll try to

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Interventions

I like Shawn Callahan’s examples of interventions: turning off the blind copy functionality in an email system to send a message about trust providing managers with notebooks with the inside