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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

  • Tim Kastelle suggests that "innovation" can be a threatening idea for lots of people. It's worth thinking about the language we use in pursuit of what we want. Some folks respond better to the idea of finding ways to bridge gaps between what we're doing and what we want.

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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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Coalitions of the willing

After googling “coalition of the willing” I fear it may be too hard to rehabilitate the phrase. But it would be nice use it to sum up a strategy that

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Spam blocking

All hail Jay Allen for his MT-Blacklist, just updated which is doing a great job of keeping Comment Spam off this site. About 15 attempts were blocked this morning!

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Bypassing the middleman in market research

I’m reading John Seddon’s book on quality management, I want you to cheat!. It challenges conventional ideas of managing quality through service guarantees and measurements. He contrasts two approaches to

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Problems and solutions

Paul at Brand Autopsy writes One of the earliest business rules I can recall that made a HUGE difference in my professional style was…Never present a problem to your boss