Tag Archives: Culture

Culture: Transmission, Influence and Decay

Our mechanisms of culture have become more streamlined: the cycles of innovation and influence, proliferation and decay ever faster. The technologies that have given us our radical connectivity and proliferation of spaces that create the context of the Social Age … Continue reading

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Gathering Seeds

I shared the Quiet Leadership work with a group this week, talking through the idea of the Organisation as Ecosystem, and how we each wander through this landscape. As i was talking, i was thinking about how, as we travel, … Continue reading

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The Contexts of my Work

This is early stage #WorkingOutLoud as i consider the ‘Contexts of my Work’. Throughout this year i am taking a pause, to look back at my work so far, exploring the context of the Social Age, and to look forwards, … Continue reading

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#Learning Science Concepts – Nervous System Sensitivity

I’m working on a Learning Science book with my friends Sae and Geoff: we are #WorkiongOutLoud to publish sections as we go, and todays work is about ‘Nervous System Sensitivity’. It’s a fascinating area (and we have been helped by … Continue reading

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10 Ideas for the Future of Work

Hybrid. Return to work. The office. Three two. Two three. Collaboration. Innovation. Culture and Community. Togetherness. The paroxysms of a system in transition. Trying to win yesterdays race. The Pandemic Lockdowns and shift to remote first provided an unparalleled and … Continue reading

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Perspectives: System and Self

In the Quiet Leadership research, before i wrote the book, i asked people about ‘kindness’, about how they think it ‘works’, about where it is ‘spent’, and at what ‘cost’. In general, people describe kindness as being an interpersonal force, … Continue reading

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Intent into Effect

Organisations are entities of effect: that is their purpose, and their design. To achieve something defined, be it an act of manufacturing, invention, or change. What they do, and how they do it, is widely differentiated. But at heart, when … Continue reading

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Research and Focus for 2023

I thought i would share a final post this year with an outline of my focus for 2023. As every, this will be provisional, but i have found this useful to help me keep on track! The research projects first: … Continue reading

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Culture Explorer Programme

Today i am just #WorkingOutLoud as i start to wrap up development of the new Culture Explorer work. I’ve run three full prototypes of this new programme, and as is typical at this stage, have cycled through about sixty percent … Continue reading

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Making the Enemy

I’ve been toying with an idea today: the way that we make the enemy. The ways that we find comfort in opposition, and how it can cause us to search out, and create, the ‘other’. It’s easy to stand against … Continue reading

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