Author Archives: julianstodd

About julianstodd

Author, Artist, Researcher, and Founder of Sea Salt Learning. My work explores the context of the Social Age and the intersection of formal and social systems.

Social Leadership – Fragments of Thought

Posted on May 8, 2024 by julianstodd

I’m continuing my writing on Social Leadership this week, but today just sharing fragments of thought, as well as a new illustration. As a reminder: i’m building out a body of work that will contribute to a new Social Leadership … Continue reading →

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Leadership and our Social Context

Posted on May 2, 2024 by julianstodd

Writing is thinking. I use my writing to expand and explore the central themes of my work, as part of a methodology of #WorkingOutLoud. Which is to say that i share my evolving ideas, not simply the ones that are … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership: Evolving Social Contracts

Posted on May 1, 2024 by julianstodd

The contractual bonds that bind us into Organisations are held within the evolved context of the Social Age. Whilst we have spent decades optimising our Organisations, ensuring profitability and agility, using aspects of scientific management, process optimisation, notions of humans … Continue reading →

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The Key To Leadership

Posted on April 30, 2024 by julianstodd

The history of human social evolution can be charted through the technologies of enclosure, and trespass, and mechanisms of separation and control. Our modern society is built upon principles of collectivism, but part of that collectivism involves notions of ownership, … Continue reading →

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Fragments: The Key To Capability

Posted on April 29, 2024 by julianstodd

I’ve been working on a series of longer pieces around Social Leadership as i explore the idea of a 3rd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook, or possibly a separate book around the subject. Today, thinking about Collective Capability, and … Continue reading →

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Generative AI: The Speed of Curiosity

Posted on April 24, 2024 by julianstodd

What i’ve really noticed using Generative AI in research is the speed of my curiosity. Not simply speed of retrieval, but speed of synthesis and iteration. It reminds me of the process of marking up a large illustration, where you … Continue reading →

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Leadership as Systemic: Boundaries

Posted on April 23, 2024 by julianstodd

I’m sharing work this week on ‘disorientation and being lost’ in learning – part of a broader pattern of work around the ‘Unreconciled Self’ and ‘Imperfect Leadership’ – so as a word of warning, expect this writing to be convoluted… … Continue reading →

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Disorientation and Imperfection

Posted on April 22, 2024 by julianstodd

Tomorrow i’m sharing new work on ‘Disorientation and Imperfection’ here in Sweden. It’s very early stage writing and thinking, considering how we may wish to build systems that can hold greater ambiguity, and a capability to ‘get lost’, to move … Continue reading →

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Developing Leadership: Disturbance – Meaning – Motion

Posted on April 17, 2024 by julianstodd

Whilst we experience the landscape around us as a fixed feature, that is only because our perspective is so brief. In truth, the landscape is a fluid system, a product of deposition and erosion, at the mercy of geological forces, … Continue reading →

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Developing Leadership: Boundaries of Power

Posted on April 16, 2024 by julianstodd

Steering an Organisation is a tricky thing: partly because the boundaries of the system are more elusive than we may imagine, and partly because there is no steering wheel or joystick in sight. Add to this that it’s not always … Continue reading →

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