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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • "As Paul Graham says, VCs miss good startups all the time, but it's extraordinarily rare for one to talk about it publicly until long after the occasion. I think humility in business is a powerful thing. It speaks of a willingness to admit fallability and a desire to learn. Which is why it is so absurd that there is so little of it."

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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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Our Social World

I’m taking part in Our Social World on Friday September 9th in Cambridge. There’s an interesting collection of speakers and topics including Hugh who argues “marketeers are going to have

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Horcruxes

In the Harry Potter series Voldemort attempts to attain immortality by creating horcruxes. He splits off a fragment of his soul and stores it in an object or person. The

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Finding personal meaning

Nick Smith has a good post challenging conventional wisdom on leadership and team building. This particularly caught my attention: Instead of pursuing the impossible task of getting everyone to commit