January 18, 2005

What matters?

Johnnie Moore

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

Evelyn reflects on the books that people are buying and aren’t.

It makes you wonder doesn’t it if marketers – heck, businesspeople altogether – are altogether in left field and totally missing out on engaging and connecting with each and every one of their constituents by cautiously tiptoeing on the surface of life. Hmmm…

This strikes a chord with me. I sometimes find the mundanity of business-speak quite at odds with what I know of the deeper ~~humananit~~humanity of those who speak it.

[UPDATE] I suppose terrible spelling is part of that humanity…

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Rambling thoughts on models

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Leadership as holding uncertainty

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Concreting Complexity

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The absurd

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Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic

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Who says fun is dangerous?

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Yes, and…

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