Monthly Archives: March 2018

Mythology

Posted on March 22, 2018 by julianstodd

When we write our story of the past, we memorialise our journey, and this act of ossification is as true for organisations as it is for individuals. We chose one narrative as dominant, selectively filtering to give a coherence that … Continue reading →

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Words About Learning: Belief

Posted on March 22, 2018 by julianstodd

My desire to make something true, does not make it so. Belief is a powerful force, and sits beneath some of our conception of how the world is, how it works. We learn, we form abstractions, we make leaps of … Continue reading →

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The New World of Work is Not Work

Posted on March 21, 2018 by julianstodd

Yesterday i ran the first of six sessions in California, exploring aspects of the Social Age: we started by exploring where we go ‘Beyond Organisations’, and today i will move into ‘The Storytelling Leader’, before tackling ‘Innovation & Disruption’, and … Continue reading →

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Ecosystem change & Organisational Design [part 1]

Posted on March 19, 2018 by julianstodd

Where will we go, beyond Organisations? Much Organisational Design today is based upon outdated principles of collectivism, and effect at scale, through hierarchy and control, in a world that sees the democratisation of innovation, a rebalancing of power, and evolved … Continue reading →

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The Friction of Innovation

Posted on March 15, 2018 by julianstodd

I recently shared a post exploring cultural agility in relation to innovation and disruption: broadly the premise is that different states of innovation may require different manifestations of culture, some of which can co-exist, and some of which sit in … Continue reading →

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The Social Consequence of Exclusion #2

Posted on March 14, 2018 by julianstodd

Excuse first: some days it’s hard to write, it’s just too busy. I’ve delivered a full day workshop, then travelled into the evening to prepare for another full day tomorrow. But #WorkingOutLoud is not about sharing excuses, it’s about sharing … Continue reading →

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Crowds

Posted on March 13, 2018 by julianstodd

I recently shared a taxonomy of Social organisation, looking at ‘tribal’ structures, ‘communities’, and ‘organisations’. I’m continuing to evolve this, partly to allow me to try out new language. The vocabulary we use, to describe things, is laden with predetermined … Continue reading →

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Domain Specificity into a Generalised Specificity

Posted on March 12, 2018 by julianstodd

This is a conversation about the future of work. Consider this a half formed thought, but one which i’ve been chasing around for a while now. As part of the work exploring where we go, ‘Beyond Organisations’, and linked into … Continue reading →

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Trust Sketchbook: The Beginning of the End?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by julianstodd

I’m the first to admit that i am not always great at finishing things. But i’ve been recognising recently that i have too many ‘open’ projects, and more that i want to start… so i’m making myself do some ‘finishing’, … Continue reading →

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The Community Handbook: a #WorkingOutLoud post

Posted on March 7, 2018 by julianstodd

I’m taking the results from the Landscape of Trust research, and the Communities of Practice research, and trying to hack together a short Handbook, intended to share relevant aspects of the combined research, alongside interpretation, links to other writing, and … Continue reading →

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