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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Does the current academic setup prevent innovation? " the system seems designed to prevent original thought and risk taking. It seems like a majority of the sessions are all for young academics to teach them how to manage the process of publishing papers and securing tenure. A process that appears to require conformity to established practice dealing with well defined problems and above all not doing anything new or radical."

  • Rob speculates on how a one-man veggie-box operation could scale as a network to provide an alternative to the established food distribution channels which systemically strip value from producers.

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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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On a lighter note

From Letterman:Top Ten Messages Left on Cat Stevens’ Answering Machine Some of this didn’t translate so well over the Atlantic but I liked 7. “It’s Johnnie Cochran. Without a trial

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Shine

Now this looks like my kinda conference: * 600 social entrepreneurs * 3 days * 23 sessions (and counting) * 1 warehouse on London’s Southbank Welcome to SHINE the first

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Advertising, flow states and me

Euan has a go at the mindlessness of most of what passes for marketing these days. I confess I’m pretty much a grumpy old man about it myself, grumbling and

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Whose brand is it anyway..

Like Nicholson emailed me a link to this interesting case study in user-led branding. The cease-and-desist part gets very postmodern I think. Brandjacking Burger King on Twitter – Lessons Learned