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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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Circle of life

I found this BBC wildlife video stunning. It’s a time lapse film showing how creatures like starfish very slowly consume the body a dead seal on the ocean floor. You

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More on brainstorming’s limits

Keith Sawyer reports some more research on the limits of brainstorming. In short you get better results if you ask participants to work alone before working together. And then there’s

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Benchmarking and abstraction

Seth’s having a pop at benchmarking and I agree with him. It’s all too easy to look at numbers and not allow ourselves to explore the richness and subtlety of human experience.

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Marketing, diagrams and despair

Earlier this week I attended a debate on the proposition “Marketing isn’t Working”. Like all such adversarial set ups it tended to revolve largely around semantics, though some contributions were