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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "It turns out that ‘sand avalanches’ have an analogue in the brain’s ‘neural avalanches’ (that is in the way that neurons communicate with each other). Even further it is precisely at this critical border of disorder and chaos that the brain functions. That is to say the brain is always on the edge of chaos. The article explains that this self-organised criticality (on the edge of chaos) is crucial for a proper functioning of the brain." HT John Hagel

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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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Resilience

Brian Alger writes about resilience citing the interesting website of Philia which explores the idea of citizenship. This is the extract Brian chose and which caught my eye: “An understanding

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An exception

For the first and probably last time I’ve chosen to not to delete a spam comment on this blog. The comment and my rationale are here.

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Pulsation in meetings

Over in Denmark my friend Jesper Bindslev has been trying a new approach to meetings. Today I introduced the frame “quick and dirty” at work to introduce a practice I

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Conversation index

An interesting perspective on metrics from Stowe Boyd. While working at Corante I had the opportunity to peer at the stats for all sorts of blogs that we had going.