Monthly Archives: October 2019

The Strength of Social Leaders

Posted on October 31, 2019 by julianstodd

I wanted to strip down this post to the essence of Social Leadership: building a movement, nurturing others, putting your shoulder to the cart. The Social Age takes us beyond the context of winning through knowledge, power, and noise alone: … Continue reading →

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The Learning Science Guidebook

Posted on October 30, 2019 by julianstodd

The main text for my next Social Age Guidebook is now complete, although i feel a fair amount of trepidation around releasing it: it explores Learning Science, with a broad approach to helping people to ‘explore their landscape of curiosity’, … Continue reading →

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Centrefold

Posted on October 29, 2019 by julianstodd

Reviewing the final proofs for the Apollo book, i realised that i wanted to add in a double page spread, to break up two chapters. This image is of the flag being raised on the moon: a rather last minute … Continue reading →

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Community Firmament

Posted on October 28, 2019 by julianstodd

I think i would put today’s writing firmly in the speculative space: i am thinking about how Communities operate within Formal Organisations, and prototyping a new language around it. But i do not expect this to be ‘right’ yet. It’s … Continue reading →

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Explore your Landscape of Curiosity

Posted on October 23, 2019 by julianstodd

To be curious is to inquisitive as to what lies beyond the horizon of our own ignorance and understanding. It’s a primary driver of human nature, a strong motivator into action, and gets us in equal measure into hot water … Continue reading →

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Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: a #WorkingOutLoud post

Posted on October 21, 2019 by julianstodd

I’m starting work this week on a new body of work covering two large topics in Learning Transformation: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. My specific focus in this work will be threefold: firstly, to present a coherent and comprehensive state … Continue reading →

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Blast Off

Posted on October 17, 2019 by julianstodd

I’ve just hit ‘send’ on the final manuscript for my next book: the final title is “To the Moon and Back: Leadership Reflections from Apollo”, and it forms the next in my series of Social Age Guidebooks. This final illustration … Continue reading →

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Silencing Voices

Posted on October 16, 2019 by julianstodd

We live within busy systems: spaces filled with static, discourse, and noise. Through this fog we seek meaning: validation of views, membership and belonging, knowledge and clarity. But not all voices are equal, and not all voices are equally heard. … Continue reading →

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Ways of Working: Perspective Shift

Posted on October 15, 2019 by julianstodd

A great many Organisations have a focus on future ‘ways of working’: sometimes expressed as a future culture, sometimes as specific digital skills, often as an approach to innovation or change. These programmes represent the normalisation of change, and the … Continue reading →

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Trends in Organisational Learning

Posted on October 14, 2019 by julianstodd

I have been thinking about some broad trends in Organisational Learning, and sketched up this as a summary: it’s not intended to be definitive, but rather to indicate broad strokes, and to contextualise this as part of the move into … Continue reading →

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