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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "The modern business meeting however, might better be compared with a funeral, inthe sense that you have a gathering of people who are wearing uncomfortable clothingand would rather be somewhere else. The major difference is that most funerals have adefinite purpose. Also, nothing is really ever buried in a meeting."  Hat tip: Dave Pollard.

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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

Kerplunk!

Meetings gain energy when someone addresses real emotions or conflicts, shifting vague ideas into action by embracing honest, human interactions instead of avoiding sensitive issues.

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Perils of positioning wars

A good article by Jay Rosen about media coverage of the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice in the US. The story is of two sides of activists doing battle

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WSJ and blogger ethics

I enjoyed David Weinberger’s response to the Wall Street Journal’s flimsy attack on the integrity of certain bloggers for presuming to write about projects where they are acting as advisers.

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Ouch

Oh. El Blogador has had it with me: I have unceremoniously removed mssrs Hughtrain and Johnny Moore from my blogroll today. They’ve spent the past couple of weeks frenziedly banging