links for 2010-09-23

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Geoff Brown talks about his original training in occupational therapy and how the "model of human occupation" he struggled with their took on more meaning in his later life as a facilitator. It's interesting to think how Open Space work attempts to activate volition and perhaps messes with habituation among delegates…

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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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Getting vernancular

One of our Co-Creation Rules is “Get Vernacular”. This means dumping some of the dinosaur speak and using language that the rest of us use. Rik spotted a great example

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Ning and Open Space

Carman Pirie has an interesting post about how he used ning to support a real world Open Space event. Like Carman I’m concerned not to let recording of conversations become

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Making a decision like a tribe

This Fast Company article from 1995 describes how a native American wisdom council gets taken into the corporate world. Interesting stuff. I read it with some anxiety as I fear

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Beermat wisdom

Hugh at gapingvoid posts a great story about the dangers of “Big Idea” thinking in agencies.