Category Archives: Agile

This Book is Imperfect: The Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on June 2, 2020 by julianstodd

I’ve just submitted the final text and illustrations to the designer for my next Social Age Guidebook, which explores ‘The Socially Dynamic Organisation’ as a new model of Organisational Design. I first started to share work around this idea in … Continue reading →

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The Building Blocks

Posted on May 10, 2018 by julianstodd

Our formal organisations are built in familiar ways: we assemble functional teams, buy them computers, put a roof over their heads, connect them through technology, and hold them safe with rules. These are the building blocks that delivered the Industrial … Continue reading →

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From The Ruins Of The Old

Posted on May 2, 2018 by julianstodd

It’s possible that we are destined to fail, that our organisations will crumble, that the pace of change the Social Age demands will simply be too much for our creaking hierarchies to handle. Not every organisation will fail, but maybe … Continue reading →

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The Psychology Of Mixed Realities. #WorkingOutLoud [Part 1]

Posted on July 25, 2017 by julianstodd

There’s a great buzz. Or certainly a great hype. Virtual, immersive, and augmented realty is a transformative event in learning: not simply from an experiential view but, if we focus on design and pedagogy, an effectiveness one. The technology is … Continue reading →

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Connecting Dots

Posted on May 8, 2017 by julianstodd

Perspective is challenging: we are always constrained by our worldview, by our current understanding, by the view from the platform that we are standing upon. For as long as we are caught within a current frame, within a current system, … Continue reading →

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Resilience: Technology, Community, and Power

Posted on March 23, 2017 by julianstodd

I’m working on a new session to deliver this afternoon around resilience in organisations: our ability to become less brittle in the face of asymmetric and unknown disruption. I’m primarily concerned with linking up three separate streams of work: the … Continue reading →

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Organisational Design Principles for a Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on March 13, 2017 by julianstodd

The Socially Dynamic Organisation is evolved: it is strong not simply through formal hierarchy, infrastructure and governance, but rather through innovation, agility and the strength of it’s communities. It’s fundamentally reimagined from those organisations that came before: no longer a … Continue reading →

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Finding Balance

Posted on February 10, 2017 by julianstodd

I’ve been delivering sessions throughout this week in Canada, sharing work around Social Leadership, the Socially Dynamic Organisation, and the Landscape of Trust. I’ve been starting each of these sessions with the new images and conversation about Dynamic Tension, and … Continue reading →

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Friction: Dynamic Tension

Posted on December 8, 2016 by julianstodd

Building on yesterday’s post: there is a friction between the ‘formal‘ and ‘social‘ systems, the two sides of any organisation in the Social Age: the friction represents the power balance between the rigid type of organisational mandated authority, and the … Continue reading →

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Risk

Posted on November 30, 2016 by julianstodd

I’m highly nervous: tomorrow morning i present the work on Black Swans and the Limits of Hierarchy. And i made the mistake of rehearsing it. I am very rarely nervous: i spend a good chunk of my time in conversations. … Continue reading →

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