Tag Archives: Capability

Extending Capability

Posted on May 17, 2022 by julianstodd

I had dinner with a friend last night, a climber, who described how her group would use a drone to scout out new climbing routes. They would use the drone to extend their capability: after trekking through snow, through undergrowth, … Continue reading →

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Broad Shifts in Organisational Learning #2 – Gaps

Posted on November 10, 2021 by julianstodd

Our conception of a challenge can frame our response to it: are we adapting within a known framework, or innovating a fundamentally new framework? Essentially a question we should ask is whether it is more efficient and effective to adapt … Continue reading →

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Capability: Plug and Play or Plant and Grow?

Posted on July 15, 2021 by julianstodd

It’s easy to think of an Organisation as a structure that we must plug people into – domains and hierarchy trick us into this view. This will give us one type of capability: a known one, a predictable one. A … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud – The Learning Organisation

Posted on April 19, 2021 by julianstodd

I recently shared several iterations of my core work around ‘learning’: this forms the next stage of that project, starting to consider core capabilities and structure of the Learning Organisation. I should stress that this is very early stage and … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Hat

Posted on February 23, 2021 by julianstodd

When my son was born, i found myself in an unfamiliar environment. Hospital systems can be inherently disconcerting, because they strip away our sense of control and power. If you are admitted, virtually the first thing they do is to … Continue reading →

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Reimagining Capability

Posted on November 2, 2020 by julianstodd

As with many things in the context of the Social Age, when it comes to thinking about ‘Capability’, we should probably consider it in terms of an evolved foundation and understanding, away from a ‘unit of one’, toward a ‘unit … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on the #FutureWork series

Posted on September 23, 2020 by julianstodd

I’m publishing a short series of essays that explore alternative future models of work, and designs for the Organisations and structures of education and reward that sit behind it. These are shared as fragments of thought, not a complete picture, … Continue reading →

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Trends in Organisational Learning

Posted on October 14, 2019 by julianstodd

I have been thinking about some broad trends in Organisational Learning, and sketched up this as a summary: it’s not intended to be definitive, but rather to indicate broad strokes, and to contextualise this as part of the move into … Continue reading →

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Domain Specificity into a Generalised Specificity

Posted on March 12, 2018 by julianstodd

This is a conversation about the future of work. Consider this a half formed thought, but one which i’ve been chasing around for a while now. As part of the work exploring where we go, ‘Beyond Organisations’, and linked into … Continue reading →

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Closed Competence

Posted on January 23, 2018 by julianstodd

I have an uneasy relationship with electricity: last time the main fuse blew in my house, i fixed it, tentatively, but turned it back on at arms length, with a wooden spoon, hiding behind a cushion. World class protection from … Continue reading →

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