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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Interesting research suggests just giving the homeless money rather than advice or other forms of support, might be more effective. Also looks at other examples where social issues are treated by offering money. Would be interested in the nuances because "Punished by Rewards" has a lot of evidence of the downsides to financial incentives in many contexts. Though the homeless case doesn't really fit the "incentive" frame, some of the other egs in this piece do.

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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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Grrrr

My relative silence recently is partly due to having had no broadband access for more than a week. This is all courtesy of BT who seem each day to deny

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Pollard on Open Space

Dave Pollard has a thoughtful and somewhat critical post about Open Space. I see that Jack Martin Leith has offered a few thoughts in response. First off declaring my baggage

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Group intelligence and small cues

Aaron Saenz reports research from MIT into collective intelligence. They studied the effectiveness of a series of groups of varying sizes and performing a number of different tasks. Then they

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The power outside the company

David Weinberger points to buyitlikeyoumeanit. This site aims to aggregate people’s ratings of companies on a variety of measures. You then get to set up your own scoring system based