links for 2011-08-01

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Scabrous takedown of blue sky thinking. ""Nudge unit". "Big society". "Hug a hoodie". They sound like the titles of nauseating business-psychobabble books: the sort of timewasting Who Moved My Cheese? groovy CEO bullshit routinely found cluttering the shelves of every airport bookshop in the world. As well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity – a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for David Bowie at his experimental peak – these books are the direct suit-and-tie office-dick equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a blancmange of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors."

  • Good stuff from Geoff Brown

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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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Diagrams

People who work with me realise that a good way to get me to stop listening to any explanation is to draw me a diagram. Don’t get me wrong sometimes

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A model or a practice?

I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between business based on a model and based on a practice. And I think I want a practice not a model. I’ve been

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To focus or not to focus?

Several bloggers are talking about Focus today. And Elevator Pitches. Sometimes focus is good, but there’s a lot to be said for peripheral vision. This entry explores that idea with a lot of references to other folks. And concludes the answer is proably
: Yes, And

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Thought for today

I don’t suppose Bertrand Russell was into Improv but it looks like he’d have got it: To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation,