Monthly Archives: March 2016

The Final Few: Social Leadership Illustrations #3

The last set i promise: i’m #WorkingOutLoud as i complete the illustrations for the new edition of the Social Leadership Handbook. The text is finished, and thirty illustrations done, so here i’m sharing the final few. It’s an ecclectic collection: … Continue reading

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Illustrations About ‘Community’ in Social Leadership

Continuing to #WorkOutLoud as i complete the final illustrations for the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook: today, three core illustrations about ‘Community‘. These three images accompany the section where we consider where the communties are that we inhabit … Continue reading

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Sharing Illustrations from the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook

Continuing a theme: i’m drawing new illustrations for the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook, against a deadline, so i’m #WorkingOutLoud and sharing these as i go. Forgive me if some of the following are a little out of … Continue reading

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Beware The Kraken Of Despair

Beware the Kraken of despair, he splashes, crashes, claws the air, Resenting change, he tears his hair, He mopes and cries and screams and shares His misery for all to see. Just left alone he’d rather be. “Oh leave me … Continue reading

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A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words

Today i’m sharing a range of new illustrations for the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook: i’m updating a lot of the images, adding some new aspects in, tidying others up. I find it surprising how much my own … Continue reading

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This is not right but…

…it might get there with help from the community. I finished editing the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook today (hooray: editing not my strong point…), and started work on some new illustrations. This was an attempt at a … Continue reading

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Bisecting the Elephant

I’ve been deluding myself with progress on the new edition of the Social Leadership Handbook. I find it helps. The original was seventy five pages of raw text, almost twenty six thousand words, commendable for it’s brevity if nothing else. … Continue reading

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#WorkingOutLoud on the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook: the Introduction

I like to share chapters when i’m working on a book, #WorkingOutLoud as i go. Below is the introduction to the Second Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook. The main model remains the same, but i’ve greatly expanded the third … Continue reading

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Aspects of Social Leadership #4: Where Are We?

‘Is your visit business or social?’ asked the iPad in front of me as i checked in to visit someone today. There was, sadly, no space for a free text answer, which was a challenge as the decision was far … Continue reading

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Aspects of Social Leadership #3: Community

Another #WorkingOutLoud post today for two reasons: firstly, i’m finishing up the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook, so value sharing my thinking as i go, and secondly because i’ve spend the day in a workshop with a very … Continue reading

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