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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Funny. And I suspect much of life is as susceptible to small changes making big differences. Hat tip: Charles Frith

  • "I wonder if particular people/groups/cultures are more (or less) likely to accept the future consequences of present actions? The futility of ramming 1-way information and knowledge into the brains of adolescent boys plays out the same way climate change scientists (and groups/government) work really hard to persuade skeptics with facts and figures."

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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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Purpose

I’ve just picked up the phrase “communities of purpose” via Mark. Sounds a bit sharper than community of practice. You could say that Open Space revolves around communities of purpose.

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Learning

Chris Corrigan wrote about his experience of unschooling a few days ago and his post still sticks in my mind. It raises a profound challenge to many conventional ideas about

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Soft skills and straitjackets

Two posts by good friends appeared in my timeline yesterday which seem closely related. Jon Husband writes about Semantic Straitjackets a useful way to describe the many models and processes

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Big interventions:small understanding?

I realise I keep quoting Dave Snowden in this blog but dammit he keeps writing stuff that engages me. I think it’s partly that he can argue positions in logical