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Quiet Leadership: Nobody Alone

Posted on February 18, 2021 by julianstodd

Quiet Leadership recognises that the Organisation is like an ecosystem: yesterday i shared a piece that explored this. Today, as i continue writing the Guidebook that accompanies the journey, i consider how none of us, alone, can save the system. … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: The Organisation As Ecosystem

Posted on February 17, 2021 by julianstodd

I am #WorkingOutLoud to share writing from the Quiet Leadership book that i am working on. This piece is a rewrite of several previous descriptions of the Organisation as Ecosystem, and i hope will form the start of the first … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on Quiet Leadership

Posted on February 8, 2021 by julianstodd

Quiet Leadership is an exploration of leadership in the smallest of things: our mindset, our words, and our actions, in every single day. It’s not about a grand aspiration, about formal organisational objectives, or big development programmes. It’s not about … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: An Endless Weight

Posted on December 15, 2020 by julianstodd

Quiet Leadership explores how, through the smallest of actions, we improve the system around us. It’s about leadership in the everyday, with humility, through kindness, fairness, and with grace. The final section, on ‘Grace’, is about a fluidity of style, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: How Do You Experience Fairness?

Posted on December 8, 2020 by julianstodd

Part 3 of the Quiet Leadership work explores the notion of ‘fairness’: how do we experience it, who is responsible for it, and what are the tensions that act upon it? In the metaphor of the Organisation as Ecosystem, i … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Is Kindness A Friction Upon The System?

Posted on December 3, 2020 by julianstodd

Part of Social Leadership is a willingness to look inwards: to take our assumptions and explore them from different angles and perspectives. Some of that reflective work we can do ourselves, whilst for other parts, to look into our shadow, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: The Organisation as Ecosystem

Posted on November 24, 2020 by julianstodd

Today i am #WorkingOutLoud to share more of the emerging illustrations from the Quiet Leadership work: this one explores the ‘Organisation as Ecosystem’, a theme i have circled around from a number of directions in my broader work, but which … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: A View of Humility

Posted on November 23, 2020 by julianstodd

Humility is a judgement on our actions, not a badge that we can claim, and by that nature it is a hard thing to seek: if we ‘try’ to be humble to be more successful, we may be deemed to … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Degrading our Ecosystem

Posted on November 18, 2020 by julianstodd

Every day, through small actions, we both enhance, and degrade, the ecosystem that we exist within: in the work on Quiet Leadership i consider the Organisation itself as an ecosystem, a forest, filled with trees and shrubs, streams and rivers, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Things That We Give, Things That We Take

Posted on November 17, 2020 by julianstodd

I am #WorkingOutLoud as i develop the writing around Quiet Leadership: an exploration of gentle actions that draw strength into our systems. Today i am considering the Organisation as an Ecosystem, and that in each day we take some things … Continue reading →

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