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Yotel!

Check out the Yotel! website - a fresh approach to hotels by someone who'd rather share his idea than keep it secret.
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Johnnie Moore

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

Yet again the ecsw newsletter delivers a great insight, this time on Simon Woodroffe’s plans for a Yotel!

Simon has just launched the prototype of his Yotel! concept. Simon

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Waterfalls and chaos

I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.

Passion branding

Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.

Medinge Moments

Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this

The volatile chemistry of trust

Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!

What brand are you?

Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on

Just Undo It?

The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons

Putting humanity into branding

We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply

New Abbey

So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)

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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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Organising for flow?

Tim Kastelle wonders how we can get out of our thinking ruts. He pulls together several different threads including this argument from Jeffrey Phillips: Most businesses are about identifying a

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Turn taking…

I had a chance to share a few improv games this morning at the ActKM conference in Melbourne. I chose some simple turn-taking games which generally show that following apparently

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Sturgeon’s Law…

Tim Kastelle introduces me to Sturgeon’s Law, which states that Nothing is always absolutely so. He also sums up why it’s tempting to ignore it. Now that’s a really bad

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Action, feelings and meaning

Bill Isaacs’ book Dialogue highlights some useful analysis by David Kantor. Kantor developed his thinking about family systems and took it into the organisational world. One of his most interesting