Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

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Rambling thoughts on models

I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile

Planning as drowning

Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges

Leadership as holding uncertainty

Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in

Concreting Complexity

I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big

The absurd

In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason

Rewriting history…

Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like

Who says fun is dangerous?

I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe

Thoughts for the day

These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than

Christmas presence

Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas

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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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Power, Status and Rank

My friends Barbara Tint and Simo Routarinne are offering workshop on Working with Power Status and Rank on September 20th in London. Here’s a pdf with more details:  SPR, LONDON

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Business Buzzword Bingo

Like Seth Godin I liked the idea of Business Buzzword Bingo. In marketing meetings I would add words like Eyeballs; Penetration; Customer-centric; Metrics; Brandscape… actually, the list could go on

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Knowledge, power and network turbulence

My friend Jon Husband writes about the turbulence caused to traditional ways of managing by networked people: Knowledge power and an historic shift in work and organizational design I was

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Leader?

I agree with Phil Dourado: Start thinking ‘acts of leadership’ rather than ‘leader’