Category Archives: Achievement

Seattle: An Architecture Of Innovation

Posted on September 30, 2016 by julianstodd

Amazon are building a forest: in the heart of downtown Seattle, beauty emerges, a convoluted scaffolding, sharp sunlight glinting off glass, anodised steel forming perfect spheres. A new building, an architecture of innovation. Three interlinked spheres that will form meeting … Continue reading →

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Beware The Kraken Of Despair

Posted on March 25, 2016 by julianstodd

Beware the Kraken of despair, he splashes, crashes, claws the air, Resenting change, he tears his hair, He mopes and cries and screams and shares His misery for all to see. Just left alone he’d rather be. “Oh leave me … Continue reading →

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Canada: The Relativity of Success

Posted on February 25, 2016 by julianstodd

I clearly looked trustworthy enough that the slightly fraught ski instructor asked me to mind one of her proteges on the lift up the mountain, which is how i found myself in deep conversation with a very sparky four year … Continue reading →

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That Was 2015

Posted on December 24, 2015 by julianstodd

In 2015 i wrote almost 130,000 words on the blog, plus the manuscripts for the new book on ‘Organisational Change in the Social Age’, half the manuscript for ‘Guidebook to the Social Age’, and some preliminary research for a book … Continue reading →

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Taking Pride

Posted on May 12, 2015 by julianstodd

In a group today, i noticed one participant wearing a badge saying ‘Pride in the NHS‘, our much loved and occasionally exasperated National Health Service. The NHS is a hot political potato, as well as a subject of division between … Continue reading →

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Performance Enhancement: gadgets, gizmos and GoPros

Posted on February 23, 2015 by julianstodd

Austria is not far away, but somehow the journey takes me longer than it does to get to Singapore. It’s not down to any inefficiency in the Swiss Train network, which offered a profuse apology for the one minute delay, … Continue reading →

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Saplings

Posted on May 16, 2014 by julianstodd

“Charles Dickens wrote ‘A tale of two cities’ under this very tree” said Andy, as we sat in the sunshine. “Interesting“, i replied, afraid to admit i’ve never read it. One of so many classics to have passed me by: … Continue reading →

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Mentoring: a matter of Hope and Trust

Posted on November 27, 2013 by julianstodd

I thought I’d got off at the wrong floor at first: the buzz of conversation was loud, even from the lift lobby. I was priding myself at having arrived early for the Mentoring event, thinking I’d have time to catch … Continue reading →

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The reason for reflection

Posted on August 28, 2013 by julianstodd

I’m on holiday this week, trying to avoid all but essential work, but also trying to finish the third article exploring Social Leadership (which doesn’t count as work!). I also took a look at the Blog stats and realised how … Continue reading →

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Iconic leadership in the Social Age

Posted on August 27, 2013 by julianstodd

Fascinating today how stories are circulating about Steve Ballmer’s departure from Microsoft and the impact this will have on this highly successful, but occasionally directionless technology business. Post Steve Jobs, Apple has done well, although opinion is still divided on … Continue reading →

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