Monthly Archives: January 2018

#WorkingOutLoud sharing ideas on ‘The Humble Leader’

Posted on January 31, 2018 by julianstodd

I’ve been toying with the idea for a while of a very short book, maybe 3-5k words, on ‘humility’, or ‘kindness’. More a reflective essay than anything else. I used the flight from Berlin to work on some notes for … Continue reading →

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Perpetually Opposed

Posted on January 30, 2018 by julianstodd

As i’ve been thinking about communities, and the forces that bind them, i’ve reached what feels like an inescapable truth: that for any unity, there must be opposition, for any membership, there must be exclusion. I don’t mean active disenfranchisement … Continue reading →

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A Permission To Be Wrong

Posted on January 29, 2018 by julianstodd

I often talk about ‘permission’ an easily shoplifted thing: you can be given it, or you can pick it up and walk away with it. And nobody can stop you. Permission can be granted, or it can be claimed. Not … Continue reading →

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On Learning

Posted on January 25, 2018 by julianstodd

‘Learning’ is probably a more visceral, and less refined experience than we care to believe is true: a lurching series of beliefs, rationalised in retrospect, validated in our preconceptions and bias. Very little learning happens in isolation of context: either … Continue reading →

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Innovation and Culture

Posted on January 24, 2018 by julianstodd

In my work around Innovation, i’ve become increasingly interested in culture, specifically the notion that we may require a certain fluidity, that culture may be optimised in specific spaces, and that the very optimisation that permits us to thrive, may … Continue reading →

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Closed Competence

Posted on January 23, 2018 by julianstodd

I have an uneasy relationship with electricity: last time the main fuse blew in my house, i fixed it, tentatively, but turned it back on at arms length, with a wooden spoon, hiding behind a cushion. World class protection from … Continue reading →

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Designing the Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on January 22, 2018 by julianstodd

I’m sharing a new iteration of the design principles for the Socially Dynamic Organisation: this format is an attempt to capture the systemic nature of adaptation, and the internal tensions that exist as we strive to build it. Increasingly, i … Continue reading →

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The Social Leadership Game: Reflections on the Prototype

Posted on January 17, 2018 by julianstodd

Yesterday i prototyped the first version of a Social Leadership strategic tool, a jigsaw that can be used by teams to explore what Social Leadership is, their individual and relative strengths, and to contextualise it in their own organisation. Today, … Continue reading →

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Prototyping the Jigsaw for the Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on January 16, 2018 by julianstodd

It’s the end of a long day: i’ve been facilitating a group of senior leaders, exploring Social Leadership, Innovation, and Change. Which is another way of saying that i feel too tired to write. But part of #WorkingOutLoud is to … Continue reading →

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Sketch Maps of the Social Age

Posted on January 15, 2018 by julianstodd

Last week i shared my new map of the Social Age, highlighting twelve core aspects of change. Today, for fun, i thought i would share the previous three iterations of the map, from my first sketch in 2014, where i … Continue reading →

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