Monthly Archives: February 2014

Assessment: we’re spoilt for (multi) choice

Posted on February 28, 2014 by julianstodd

Long term blog readers will know of my dislike of multi-choice assessments: the last ditch bid of the desperate in the final fifteen minutes of learning design. In an idle five minutes, i’ve sketched out some other approaches to assessment, … Continue reading →

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Agility

Posted on February 26, 2014 by julianstodd

What is agility? It’s about QUESTIONING everything. Just because you did it that way yesterday doesn’t mean we should do it that way tomorrow. In the Social Age, change is constant. Doing what you always did won’t work anymore. Question … Continue reading →

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The Future of Leadership

Posted on February 25, 2014 by julianstodd

I was asked to write a few pages on the Future of Leadership this week. I’m sharing it here. Regular visitors will recognise parts of this narrative. We live in the Social Age, where formal models of authority and power … Continue reading →

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Market Towns: the places we gather

Posted on February 24, 2014 by julianstodd

I was driving through the New Forest yesterday: as the sun was out i went right through, passing through towns and villages as well as wide open spaces and tracts of woodland. The Forest is an old landscape, shaped by … Continue reading →

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Healthcare radicals: momentum for change

Posted on February 21, 2014 by julianstodd

I’ve been talking today with a community who are becoming change agents: disruptive healthcare radicals who are trying to upset the status quo and drive reform through action. They are uniting around common values, around models for change, around the … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Social Age: the ecosystem of change

Posted on February 20, 2014 by julianstodd

As i work on the book about the Social Age, i’ve spent some time charting the ecosystem of change. Change is constant, and not just in one area. Driven by technology, in a context of wider social change, everything is … Continue reading →

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The gamble of talent management

Posted on February 18, 2014 by julianstodd

A house built on sand is never a good idea: i’ve been thinking about talent management programmes today and it’s triggered me to revisit notions around the changing nature of work and the need to be magnetic to talent. It’s … Continue reading →

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Reputation in Social Leadership: a first draft

Posted on February 17, 2014 by julianstodd

The NET Model of Social Leadership defines a style of leadership suitable for the Social Age. It consists of three Dimensions: Narrative (which covers ‘Curation‘, ‘Storytelling‘ and ‘Sharing‘), Engagement (which looks at ‘Community‘, ‘Reputation‘ and ‘Authority‘), and Technology (which explores … Continue reading →

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A Valentine of loves and loss

Posted on February 14, 2014 by julianstodd

A day for love, but not everyone feels it: whilst some people struggle to open their doors for piles of cards, others wait idly by for the postman, destined to spend the night alone. Which is what i’ll be doing … Continue reading →

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