Tag Archives: Belief

#WorkingOutLoud on ‘Togetherness – Otherness’

One of my writing projects this year concerns ‘togetherness and otherness’. In the spirit of ‘The Humble Leader’, this will be a guided reflection, but different from that previous work in that i intend to bring in different voices: people … Continue reading

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Belief

What do you believe in? Have you ever found belief, or lost it? Do you believe in people, or things, or something else? Is belief logical, or is it even real? If you have found belief, what has it given … Continue reading

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The Path

“Bullets cannot kill love”, said Olav Fykse Tveit, the head of the Norwegian Protestant Church at a memorial service in the capital, Oslo, yesterday, following the murder of two people, and wounding of many more, at an attack in one … Continue reading

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Government – Society – Organisation: Evolution

This is very early stage #WorkingOutLoud – a piece, considering the taxonomy of social systems and evolving structures of society in the broadest context of the Social Age. We tend to understand society in terms of fixed structures and the … Continue reading

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Building Culture

I’m off to Orlando today for the ATD Conference next week, where i’m sharing a session on ‘Building Culture’ with my friends over at Novartis. As i prepare for the session (it’s a long flight) i find myself thinking about … Continue reading

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The Story of Culture

As part of #WorkingOutLoud on the new Storytelling work, today i am considering ‘The Story of Culture’. We talk about culture within Organisations as though it’a a ‘real’ thing, largely because we ‘see’ it around us, and we feel it … Continue reading

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The Future of Work is Uncertain

Much of the narrative around the ‘future of work’ is naive. It speaks of systems that we understand, modes of power that are established, and the promises of feature rich technology. Many narratives we hear in the media, oft repeated, … Continue reading

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#WorkingOutLoud on ‘Belief’ in Leadership

I’ve started exploring the second phase of work exploring the role and nature of ‘belief’ within Organisations, relating to leadership and engagement. At this stage i am running a series of phases, each of which will prototype a short set … Continue reading

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Leadership: A Matter of Belief?

I have been working on a new research project that explores the role, and evolution of, ‘belief’ in the context of Leadership in the Social Age. The premise is simple: we have parallel modes of engagement, the first being contractual, … Continue reading

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Belief: Exploring the Landmarks of the Social Age

This is an extract from a chapter i am working on for the ‘Social Age Guidebook’: it concerns the evolution of belief, both in terms of expression, and investment. It’s imperfect work, shared as part of #WorkingOutLoud. Our second Social … Continue reading

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