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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Challenging bribery (and other social ills) by making it more visible

  • "It’s not about “work” at all. Real coworking is about the “co-” part about being together. Pride. Like-mindedness. About avoiding the risks and vicissitudes of sitting at work by yourself not being exposed to the externalities of real life by yourself about not reinventing the wheel by yourself every time a computer acts weird or a contract gets confusing or a lawsuit pops up or your dog needs a play date or you have too much work." via 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

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Watch this

Thanks to Alex Kjerulf for pointing to this remarkable story.

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Creativity, or elitism?

Bruce Nussbaum argues that Design Thinking is a Failed Experiment. Some of this resonates with me. He thinks the ideas behind it have turned into a simplistic stagegate process effectively

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Chris Corrigan on gossip…

He’s a smart guy that Chris Corrigan. I loved his observation a propos Fast Company blogging on gossip: When I am working with organizations who complain that they have communication

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Self or self-esteem?

New York magazine has more coverage of Carol Dweck’s research (which I posted about earlier): How Not to Talk to Your Kids. Here is one of the experiments reported. Kids