Tag Archives: Dynamic Change

Sketching the Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on May 3, 2017 by julianstodd

A Socially Dynamic Organisation will be fundamentally adapted: not simply a minor reinvention of the current state, but rather a fundamental evolution in organisational design and execution. Not unrelated to the current state, but certainly evolved from it. I shared … Continue reading →

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Intractable Resistance: Frustrated Change

Posted on April 5, 2017 by julianstodd

There is a familiar dilemma around change: if we focus on small and manageable projects, it’s easy to define, easy to achieve, but ultimately often fragmented and ineffective when it comes to addressing the wider challenge. But if we focus … Continue reading →

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Resistance to Change: Aspects of Cognition – a #WorkingOutLoud post

Posted on January 10, 2017 by julianstodd

I’m sharing another significant chunk of new writing today as I take good strides forward completing the third draft manuscript for the new book on organisational change, and how we build the Socially Dynamic Organisation. I’m #WorkingOutLoud as i do … Continue reading →

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Future of HR: Guided Not Governed

Posted on November 7, 2016 by julianstodd

There’s a key phrase i use in the core illustrations around the Socially Dynamic Organisation: that it’s ‘guided‘, not ‘governed‘. This harks back to the core need for change: we must dismantle the Victorian legacy of accreted power that plagues … Continue reading →

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#LearningLive: the Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on September 8, 2016 by julianstodd

The Socially Dynamic organisation is a type of organisation that is fully adapted to the realities of Social Age: it has a diversified strength held not purely within systems and technologies, process and rules, people and problem-solving, it has an … Continue reading →

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Elasticity: Moving But Rooted

Posted on June 8, 2016 by julianstodd

There’s an important phenomena called elasticity that we need to understand as it’s an insidious energy of organisational change. Elasticity is where we bend and sway in the breeze, giving an illusion of movement whilst always being rooted firmly in … Continue reading →

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The Socially Dynamic Organisation: Connected, Adapted, Fluid

Posted on May 27, 2016 by julianstodd

Within the Dynamic Change Framework we explore three manifestations of change within an organisation: the Resistant organisation, which denies any permission to change, the Constrained organisation, which wants to change but is fundamentally unable to relinquish the control to do … Continue reading →

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The Spark That Burnt HR To The Ground

Posted on April 13, 2016 by julianstodd

I’m unclear as yet if this is a call to burn HR, or an observation that it’s aflame already, ignited from within. It’s possible that only time will tell. Forgive a slightly cranky piece of writing, but i’m provoked into … Continue reading →

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Beware The Kraken Of Despair

Posted on March 25, 2016 by julianstodd

Beware the Kraken of despair, he splashes, crashes, claws the air, Resenting change, he tears his hair, He mopes and cries and screams and shares His misery for all to see. Just left alone he’d rather be. “Oh leave me … Continue reading →

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Aspects of Social Leadership #1

Posted on March 11, 2016 by julianstodd

I’m focussing effort on completing the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook this week and next: with that in mind, expect a series of slightly disconnected reflective pieces as i #WorkOutLoud and review old ideas and generate new ones! … Continue reading →

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