Monthly Archives: November 2017

Dual Paradigms of Disruption: System vs Ecosystem Change

Posted on November 29, 2017 by

This week i’ve been sharing my most recent writing around ‘Black Swans: Disruptions in Power’ at a conference in the US. This work is about types of disruption, the underlying power behind that disruption, and the inability of formal systems … Continue reading →

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Intertwined Systems

Posted on November 27, 2017 by

There’s an illusion of a woodcut that you may have seen: look at it, and you see the silhouette of an old women, but then, the image shifts, and you see a young woman’s face. Concentrate hard, and it shifts … Continue reading →

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Not One But Many: The Interconnection of Tribes

Posted on November 23, 2017 by

Our challenge in building the Socially Dynamic Organisation is not to build one unified tribe, but rather to interconnect the many. The thing that we want already exists: tightly trust bonded groups, repositories of tacit knowledge, effective ‘sense making’ entities. … Continue reading →

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Innovation

Posted on November 22, 2017 by

Today, i’m sharing some early work around ‘Innovation’, specifically, six foundational thoughts, and six steps in the process of transforming an organisation to be more able to innovate. I am not developing an innovation process, because i don’t view innovation … Continue reading →

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Foundational Shifts in Power

Posted on November 21, 2017 by

Much of the dynamic of the Social Age relates to fundamental shifts in power: broadly, this is a flow away from formally organised systems, with codified power, into socially moderated systems, with reputation based, and networked, power. We will still … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Trust Diagnostic Analysis: The Boss’s Business

Posted on November 16, 2017 by

Today i’m sharing more of the analysis of the prototype Trust diagnostic. I’m really just playing with this first instance of it, reworking some of the language, and finding ways to analyse and usefully present the data, on which note, … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud Trust Diagnostic Analysis: Belief

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

I’m continuing to #WorkOutLoud on the analysis of the Trust diagnostic: the data i’m sharing today is from the first alpha test. These results are from a group of 17 people based in Asia, and i’m using it to help … Continue reading →

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Struggling To Get On The Same Page

Posted on November 14, 2017 by

I’m #WorkingOutLoud as i (attempt) to analyse the first set of data from the prototype Trust Diagnostic. You can read more about the context of this work in yesterday’s blog post. Today, one questions stood out to me: ‘when my … Continue reading →

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The Trust Diagnostic: #WorkingOutLoud on the Alpha Group Analysis

Posted on November 13, 2017 by

Assume that today’s post is full of caveats: i wanted to share my initial analysis of the first prototype of the Trust Diagnostic, but this is very early stage work, and it will take me some time to find my … Continue reading →

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The Need for Trust

Posted on November 10, 2017 by

The formal structure of an organisation is visible, clear, codified by rules, system, and process. It’s the management structure the determines whether i have power over you. In parallel to this, runs the social structure, and it doesn’t work in … Continue reading →

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