Monthly Archives: September 2021

Paternity

Posted on September 20, 2021 by julianstodd

The blog will be on paternity leave for the next seven weeks. It’s time to focus on our growing family for a while. This year i have used this space to break apart ideas, and explore new aspects of the … Continue reading →

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Imperfect Leadership – The Map

Posted on September 13, 2021 by julianstodd

Last week i shared some early work around a new programme exploring ‘The Moral Leader’ – essentially this work considers ourselves as imperfect leaders within imperfect systems, and asks how we make the decisions that we make, and how we … Continue reading →

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Self and System: Imperfect Leadership

Posted on September 9, 2021 by julianstodd

How do we lead in complex and dynamic environments? Environments and contexts where the ‘right’ way forward is not always clear, or where there is apparently no right way at all. What guides our actions, and can we ever be … Continue reading →

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The Moral Leader

Posted on September 8, 2021 by julianstodd

Some people act with an utter clarity, certain in the virtue and right of their efforts. I am happy for them. Because i am imperfect. What if the correct path is not always clear? What if we have to do … Continue reading →

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Doing What Is Right

Posted on September 7, 2021 by julianstodd

Crossing my timelines this week have been some aphorisms about ‘doing what is right’. It’s a little like putting the horse before the cart. ‘Right’ is not an absolute value: it’s not like gravity, or a brick. It’s more relative … Continue reading →

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Innovation: Synthesis and Elemental

Posted on September 6, 2021 by julianstodd

This is the latest in a series of fragmentary pieces as i build vocabulary and ideas around Innovation. As such it is not intended as complete work, but rather the pieces which may inform later (and possibly complete!) work. Part … Continue reading →

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Innovation at the Edges

Posted on September 2, 2021 by julianstodd

Not everything happens at the centre, in those spaces that we know well, control fully, and feel comfortable within. Innovation may happen in the friction, through the cracks, at the edges. Synthesis, connection, discovery: application, iteration, evolution. The fracturing of … Continue reading →

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