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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

NY restaurants were made to post the calories of all their meals. The effect may have been to encourage people to make less healthy food choices.

Jonah Lehrer reflects on this particular manifestation of the law of unintended consequences. Maybe more calories gets equated in our minds with more pleasure.

I think it’s easy to overvalue information as a means of controlling behaviour.

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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

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Leadership as holding uncertainty

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Concreting Complexity

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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

Yes, and…

A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity

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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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Tsunami

So slowly getting back in the saddle after the Christmas hiatus. Glad that Evelyn has survived the tsunami. The other blogger I’m concerned about is James Cherkoff – I know

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Bacteria talking

A friend at NPR pointed me to this fascinatiing story (read or listen): A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria. A scientist discovers how bacteria talk to each other so they

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links for 2010-03-11

Foresight crowd sourcing Dave Snowden's doing an experiment in collecting stories around the future of public services. It's a novel approach that could subvert "expert researchers" & I recommend giving

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Assimilation vs Accumulation

I just got a terrific article in a facilitation e-zine, Master Facilitator Journal. Observing the overwhelming amount of stuff in the (Western) world and the glut of information we have