links for 2010-08-08

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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The management myth

I enjoyed Matthew Stewart’s polemic against management education in The Atlantic. He recounts his success in management based on a mixture of philosphy and… winging it. After I left the

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No such thing as an internal memo

When talking about marketing these days I often show people the home page of internalmemos.com and suggest that these days it’s not safe to think of any memo as internal.

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Non-trivial networking

Thanks to Jon Husband for pointing out this example of the value of online social networks. When radiation oncologist Michael Tomblyn recently saw a 21-year-old patient whose eye was protruding

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Letting rip

A great story is highlighted in Worthwhile, a magazine that really lives up to its name. The tragic cocktail of abusive management, anesthetizing drudgery and a noxious office trashcan has