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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "One of the main problems of bureaucracies is that they are based on the assumption that “experts” are objective and driven mainly by their technical knowledge when performing their job. This is a fallacy. Bureaucrats and experts working for bureaucracies are influenced by other factors that surround the organisation where their work and their own lives."

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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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Addictions to targets

From The Challenge of Co-Production published by NESTA:One former member of the Bristol drugs action team complained that he had to keep his eyes on 44 different funding streams, nine

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Show time

For the last few weeks I’ve been doing some improv classes with the good folks at Sprout. We’ll be putting on a show at the beginning of December. So if

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Report writers

Government seems to reverence a particular kind of cleverness. The lawyerly sort, that can write precise reports and prescribe best practices. I would dearly like to see some of the

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RSS Feeds

For those reading this blog thru a newsreader… I’ve been revising the templates for feeds and this has led to posts being renewed unnecessarily. Apologies if that’s been a nuisance;