Monthly Archives: November 2015

Spaces, Places and Community

Posted on November 30, 2015 by julianstodd

A place may be a space, but it’s not always a community. A community may be a place, but doesn’t have to occupy a particular space. A space may lack community and therefore fail to be a place at all. … Continue reading →

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The Careful Application of Common Sense

Posted on November 27, 2015 by julianstodd

A joy of travel is meeting people: in this case, a taxi driver in London. “So what do you do?” he asked. I gave some rambling answer about ‘writing‘, and ‘learning‘, ‘social knowledge‘ etc and he nodded politely. Then he … Continue reading →

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Story Flow

Posted on November 26, 2015 by julianstodd

I’ve outlined the three levels narrative that we can consider within organisations: personal, co-created and organisational. They are three lenses on the world around us, each from a different perspective and serving a different purpose. Today, i want to consider … Continue reading →

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The 3 Levels of Narrative: The Organisational Story

Posted on November 25, 2015 by julianstodd

We’ve arrived at the top level of narrative: the Organisational story. I’ve been sharing a framework for storytelling that can be used in the design of Social Learning or across other aspects of the Social Age, such as Change, or … Continue reading →

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The 3 Levels of Narrative: Co-Created Stories

Posted on November 24, 2015 by julianstodd

We use stories in many ways: to share our thinking, to shape new thinking, to build consensus, to explore new ideas, to establish commonality of value and purpose. Stories written within our communities, products of debate and discussion, co-created stories … Continue reading →

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The Story

Posted on November 23, 2015 by julianstodd

I’ve been writing the last few days around the Levels of Narrative: how we can use personal, co-created and organisational narratives in learning design, leadership and organisational change. Today, i heard about a great project using aspects of this in … Continue reading →

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Unheard Wisdom

Posted on November 20, 2015 by julianstodd

If we just listen in the spaces that we know, we will just hear what we’ve always heard: is your organisation brave enough to listen to the unheard wisdom? Often organisations are obsessed with how to control the conversation, to … Continue reading →

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The 3 Levels of Narrative: Personal Narrative

Posted on November 19, 2015 by julianstodd

When looking at how we can use stories in Organisations, we can consider three separate levels of narrative: in this article, i’m going to expand on the model i introduced the other day, which introduced those layers. The first level … Continue reading →

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Those Days

Posted on November 18, 2015 by julianstodd

It’s one of those days when i’m too tired to write, but too stubborn not to. A day when i let circumstance dictate activity, and, hence, find myself writing at the end of the day instead of the start. On … Continue reading →

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The 3 Levels of Narrative

Posted on November 17, 2015 by julianstodd

Across the writing on the Social Age, i talk about levels of narrative: personal, co-created and organisational, so i felt it was about time to capture and define them properly. The ways we use stories are many and varied, but … Continue reading →

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