Tag Archives: Agile

Culture Explorers: Agility, Fracture, Failure

Posted on November 16, 2022 by julianstodd

Sharing half a thought today with a sketch i drew earlier for the Culture Explorer programme that i’m currently prototyping. I’m using this to consider three questions: what ‘Agility’ means (and whether it’s about individual behaviours aggregated up to culture … Continue reading →

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A Vision of Culture

Posted on September 23, 2019 by julianstodd

‘Culture’ is a much used byword for ‘effect’: we talk about ‘learning cultures’, ‘toxic cultures’, ‘agile culture’, and so on, describing the culture by the effect that it demonstrates, or perhaps we could say by the behaviours that it permits. … Continue reading →

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States of Innovation

Posted on May 22, 2018 by julianstodd

I’m grounding my new work around Innovation in two frameworks: ‘States of Innovation’, and ‘Cultural Agility’. Today, i want to explore States of Innovation further, a model which uses a grid to explore the current state in relation to two … Continue reading →

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Crowdfunding ‘The Trust Sketchbook’: Art and Science

Posted on May 9, 2017 by julianstodd

Today, i’m launching a crowdfunding campaign for a prototype of The Trust Sketchbook. It’s a limited edition proof of concept, for a co-drawn, co-created, and co-owned exploration of ‘trust‘, exploring what trust is, how it’s held between individuals and within … 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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Increased Surface Area: The Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on December 13, 2016 by julianstodd

I liked a notion that came up today in conversation: that by increasing the social connectivity of the organisation, we increase the surface area. This probably harks back to my 1st degree, which included aspects of material science, that taught … Continue reading →

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The Future Of HR

Posted on November 10, 2016 by julianstodd

Despite its best intentions, HR is often experienced as paternalistic or maternalistic in nature: it is a mechanism of control, it restricts individual agency, it seeks to own and command. In the Socially Dynamic organisation this model will be replaced … Continue reading →

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Aspects of the #SocialAge – Part 2 – Risk is Fuel

Posted on August 2, 2016 by julianstodd

Organisations are used to risk: they understand it, quantify it, and mitigate it. What they don’t often do is burn it. Agile organisations are able to rapidly prototype new ideas and behaviours, able to adapt at speed, because they have … Continue reading →

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10 Reasons For Social Leadership

Posted on July 9, 2016 by julianstodd

As we move ever further into the Social Age, those mechanisms of power and control that got us this far will not be enough to get us the rest of the way: alongside hierarchy and system, we need community and … Continue reading →

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Agile Through Design

Posted on June 27, 2016 by julianstodd

I”m #WorkingOutLoud, expanding on a few ideas today about the Socially Dynamic organisation: the type of fully adapted entity that would sit at the ‘Dynamic’ end of the Change framework that I’ve been sharing recently. The Socially Dynamic organisation has … Continue reading →

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