Tag Archives: Culture

Learning 2020 – Glossary [Pt 2]

Posted on October 21, 2020 by

Yesterday i shared the first part of a glossary of learning related ideas, to run alongside the recent Learning Transformation Maps that i have been drawing. These are ideas that are central to a Learning Organisation. In the first part … Continue reading →

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An Organisation of Marketplaces

Posted on October 8, 2020 by

As part of my #FutureWork series i have been exploring the idea of Organisational Marketplaces: an evolution away from pure allocation and control towards a model of investment and opportunity. In this piece i will explore two manifestations of this, … Continue reading →

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Certainty

Posted on June 25, 2020 by

Today i am sharing one of the first sections of the ‘Social Age Guidebook’ text: this extract forms one of the ten ‘landmarks’ that we explore through the book and concerns our own ‘certainty’ as to how things just are. … Continue reading →

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The Social Age Guidebook Series: Free Action Focussed Resources

Posted on June 16, 2020 by

Over the last two years i have published six Guidebooks in the Social Age series: they’ve formed a clear attempts to carry work forward from the blog into a more developed, and action focussed, format. Broadly speaking, each takes an … Continue reading →

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The Walls of Community

Posted on May 5, 2020 by

As a Community forms, it grows to be coherent, building out shared language, rituals, artefacts of power, identity, sometimes purpose and values. And as it does so, it can become increasingly exclusive, identity led, silencing, and monocultural. There is no … Continue reading →

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The Landscape of Curiosity and Mountain of Creativity: Social and Collaborative Learning

Posted on April 22, 2020 by

Next month i have been asked to run a session on ‘Curiosity and Creativity’ in the design of effective remote learning, which has given me an opportunity to revisit this work and build out some practical design ideas. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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My New Book: Finding your Campfire – a Remote Working Survival Guide.

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

‘Finding your Campfire’ is about our journey out of the office, into the wilderness of remote work. The book is available as an eBook for free. It is arranged in three sections, which explore our individual challenges, the leadership perspective, … Continue reading →

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Mending the Net: a Story of Culture

Posted on March 16, 2020 by

The past and the present, the old and the new, these are convenient ways to parcel out our time, to present separate and distinct narratives around what came before, and what replaced it. We use these terms both to describe … Continue reading →

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The Responsibility of Organisations

Posted on March 5, 2020 by

I have been surprised to see so many people celebrating the life of Jack Welch, especially people from HR or L&D backgrounds. I’m sure he was a very nice man. Certainly a very rich one. And certainly successful, by one … Continue reading →

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The Nature of Leadership

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

Leadership is an endemic term, more often used to describe a desired outcome than a specific set of skills or behaviours, and more often describing those things that we like or aspire to than to those that we actually experience, … Continue reading →

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