Category Archives: Learning Culture

Culture

Posted on September 6, 2022 by julianstodd

To the extent that it is discernible at all, culture is held in our lived experience, framed by the architectural structures of the built environment, our behavioural and codified rituals, our systems of individual and shared belief, imbued tokens of … Continue reading →

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Organisational Learning – Broad Shifts

Posted on May 9, 2022 by julianstodd

How much value ‘Organisational Learning’ provides to an Organisation is an open question: not in terms of measuring activity, expenditure, or time, but impact (and notably whether there is a relationship between impact and the complexity of the systems that … Continue reading →

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Tides of Culture

Posted on August 2, 2021 by julianstodd

Walking along the beach is a balance: the golden sand above all the but the highest of tides is soft and hard to walk on, but dry and warm. The lowest sand is damp and much firmer, easier to traverse, … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on Big Loop Learning Organisations

Posted on May 11, 2021 by julianstodd

Building out the work on ‘Big Loop Organisations’ today by exploring aspects of what it means to be ‘big’. The notion behind this is that legacy Organisations typically fall to ‘Diminishing Spirals’ of learning, as opposed to maintaining a momentum … Continue reading →

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Big Loop and Diminishing Loop Organisations

Posted on May 10, 2021 by julianstodd

We can consider Organisations in terms of entropy: the way that energy is bled out of a system through friction, inertia, radiation, and opposition, over time. Organisations that wish to change, to be in motion, to be changeable and dynamic, … Continue reading →

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The myth of history: why organisational culture is our problem

Posted on January 15, 2014 by julianstodd

I keep coming back to culture this week: i’ve had so many people kindly sharing their thoughts and feedback that i can’t put it down. Today, i want to think about heritage and history vs co-creation and current activity. When … Continue reading →

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Taking a stance: why learning is always contextual

Posted on November 19, 2013 by julianstodd

Wherever we stand, we take a stance: as an instructional designer or an individual learner. Our stance is the ground we stand upon and the direction that we face. It’s influenced by our experiences and the outcomes we desire. But … Continue reading →

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How we arrived at Social Learning

Posted on October 25, 2013 by julianstodd

Organisations are increasingly interested in the potential of social learning, recognising that it can greatly help individuals to make sense of new knowledge and skills and to effect real changes in performance. But how did we get here? What’s so … Continue reading →

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Who creates the vista?

Posted on October 3, 2013 by julianstodd

Walking around Singapore, i’m always struck by the diversity of architecture. Glass and steel is forged and curved into many shapes, rising high above you, defining and enclosing different spaces for many purposes. The Marina Sands Hotel, three linked towers … Continue reading →

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As worlds collide: formal and informal spaces in the Social Age

Posted on September 25, 2013 by julianstodd

To understand the realities of the Social Age, we have to recognise that the boundaries between the formal and informal spaces in our lives have substantially collapsed. We inhabit a grey space where our communities, connections and conversations cross both. … Continue reading →

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