Monthly Archives: June 2024

A Curious Book About Generative AI

Posted on June 24, 2024 by julianstodd

I’m presenting a session at the Leeds University Digital Summit on Engines of Engagement tomorrow. It’s the first time i’ve delivered a full narrative account of this new work on Generative AI – to tell the story that sits behind … Continue reading →

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The Act of Culture Weaving

Posted on June 13, 2024 by julianstodd

Today i am drawing together some of my work on Culture, and specifically the notion of ‘Culture Weaving’. This is a stance on, or view of, leadership which considers influence and interconnection as key capabilities. It is not an ‘answer’ … Continue reading →

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10th Anniversary of ‘New York: Community – Spaces – Performance’

Posted on June 12, 2024 by julianstodd

My book titled ‘New York: Community – Spaces – Performance’ was published ten years ago today, and i thought i would revisit that work in a reflection on the development of my own practice (and to mark the anniversary). This … Continue reading →

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Slowing Down: Reflective Practice in the Age of AI

Posted on June 11, 2024 by julianstodd

Apple Intelligence is coming this Fall (or Autumn, as we like to call it on the Island). It promises great things, increasingly seamless integration of capability into personal context and workflow. It may make me more efficient. But what i … Continue reading →

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What is Culture: Structure & Belief

Posted on June 10, 2024 by julianstodd

‘Culture’ is both ideas, and things. It’s held in structure, rituals, artefacts, and both the stories and beliefs that surround these. And of course in our behaviour, towards one another. It is discernible by looking around us, but also within … Continue reading →

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Generative AI: Areas of Impact

Posted on June 6, 2024 by julianstodd

In ‘Engines of Engagement: A Curious Book about Generative AI’ we talked quite a bit about failure: failures in technology, for sure, but also in our conceptions of how it operates, and the potential that it holds. We wrote that … Continue reading →

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Navigating Leadership in the Social Age

Posted on June 5, 2024 by julianstodd

Leadership is a legacy function, facing towards an uncertain future. Our models of scientific management – born out of the kinetic challenges of the Industrial Revolution, and our notions of the ‘Structural’ organisation, creating codified capability and holding infrastructure as … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership: Agency and Imagination

Posted on June 4, 2024 by julianstodd

Our Individual Agency is the space that we have to operate within: it’s not specifically to do with rules, or roles (although both formal rules and our formal role do form a context to this), but rather the discretion we … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership: Contexts

Posted on June 3, 2024 by julianstodd

I am building out new work on Social Leadership, exploring the Social Context of the Organisation, the notion of Leadership at the ‘intersection of systems’, and of leadership as both ‘imperfection’ and ‘motion’. This work is still open ended: i’m … Continue reading →

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