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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Stumbled on this today useful background on the most overused "fact" in training.

  • Embeds this wisdom, which I like a lot: "Solutions are not one size fits all—they are, in fact, maddeningly bespoke. That’s because neither problems nor people are fungible. Rosenberg is a brilliant reporter, but here she exhibits the characteristic blind spot of the blind-spot-obsessed Big Idea books. Like totalizing religious or political stories, these books promise to hand over the master key that will unlock our lives. Or, more precisely, they tell us that we have had the key all along, but that we have been holding it upside down."

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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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Complexity without conscious design

There was a terrific documentary on the BBC last night, and happily it’s also on YouTube for anyone to enjoy: The Secret Life of Chaos. I particularly enjoyed the last

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Seeming awake in meetings

Well here’s a new approach to the challenge. (Hat tip: Ian McKenzie via Bruce Lewin) —–

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Axis of Somewhat Evil

Jennifer Rice points to this funny take on the Axis of Somewhat Evil Cuba Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs February 5, 2002: Beijing

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Bourn impudent

Warning: bad language ahead. I rarely read newspapers or magazines, but I do regularly pick up Private Eye. Lately, the Eye has done a terrific job uncovering the lifestlye –