Monthly Archives: January 2019

Prototyping ‘The Trust Workshop’

Posted on January 31, 2019 by julianstodd

I’m running the first prototype of a new workshop around ‘The Landscape of Trust’ today: the research project is now just over two years old, and continues to grow, and i had always intended for there to be three layers … Continue reading →

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A New Lens

Posted on January 29, 2019 by julianstodd

You can’t always stare harder to spot an answer: sometimes, you need to switch to a new lens. And sometimes, you have to grind this new lens yourself. I use this analogy when talking about the journey to Social Leadership: … Continue reading →

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Leading with Trust: Knots

Posted on January 28, 2019 by julianstodd

As i work towards a new programme, ‘Leading with Trust’, i fall into the predictable trap of trying to represent something intangible, subjective, and elusive. Sometimes the metaphor that one can illustrate is simple: the Social Age requires a map. … Continue reading →

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What Can You Leave Behind?

Posted on January 24, 2019 by julianstodd

A few years ago, i was planning for an expedition, packing and repacking my backpack, trying to squeeze in every last thing that i may need, whilst keeping the overall weight manageable. At some point in this process, I met … Continue reading →

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The Mailboat and the Myth

Posted on January 23, 2019 by julianstodd

St Kilda is the most remote of the Western Isles of Scotland, one of the most inaccessible parts of the UK, the archipelago separated from the nearest island by almost fifty miles of famously turbulent ocean. It’s an ancient landscape, … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership in Practice: The Smallest Ways

Posted on January 22, 2019 by julianstodd

I’ve recently taken to describing how we all, in small ways, degrade the system around us: through our actions, our limited vision, or the actions that hold us safe. We do this not because we are bad people, but rather … Continue reading →

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Running a Storytelling Experiment for Social Leadership

Posted on January 21, 2019 by julianstodd

The Social Leader will be a Storytelling Leader: not simply shaping and sharing their own narratives, but enabling, filtering, and amplifying, the stories that others tell. Specifically, they will understand the systemic nature of the Socially Dynamic Organisation, and the … Continue reading →

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8 Aspects of ‘The Storytelling Leader’

Posted on January 10, 2019 by julianstodd

A key aspect of Social Leadership is to recognise that our primary role is not to craft stories of power, pushing them through a network, but rather to act, with humility, to hear stories within a network, to find the … Continue reading →

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On Reading

Posted on January 9, 2019 by julianstodd

Reading is the process of gently breaking yourself: eroding dogma, undermining opinion, fracturing certainty. It’s a continual process of renewal: evaluating the things that we are sure are true, against new evidence that our certainty maybe unfounded, leaving us with … Continue reading →

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Loops of Leadership

Posted on January 8, 2019 by julianstodd

Engineers describe two types of system: ‘open’ and ‘closed’ loops. In an open loop system, there are inputs, and outputs, but no feedback. The systems presses on regardless. In a closed loop system, part of the output is fed back, … Continue reading →

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