Johnnie Moore

Ordinary Cows

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

There are some things in life that are blindingly obvious.. and somehow I need to be reminded of them either by me or (more embarassingly) by life.

In future I shall refer to these phenomena as Ordinary Cows

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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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Small gestures…

Years ago I was at a fascinating workshop exploring the drama triangle. That’s an idea from transactional analysis that sees people playing one of three postions when in conflict: persecutor

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Not a machine…

My friend and collaborator Alan Moore (no relation) pointed out this terrific quotation from John Stuart Mill. There’s good wisdom for facilitators: it’s not our job to get everyone to be

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Persistence vs genius

Incredible to think isn’t it, that the Chinese language started off as English in England, but then one person whispered it to another person… That’s how Milton Jones kicks off

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Is authenticity hyped?

Tom Asacker quotes Ionesco “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” and goes on to set some challenging questions for folks (like me) who opine from time-to-time in