Tag Archives: Failure

Social Leadership: Revisiting Imperfection

Posted on March 21, 2024 by julianstodd

I revisited work today around Imperfect Leadership: the notion that leadership may be inherently imperfect, and that what matters is our dialogue with our own practice and context. Sharing some fragments of thought around this idea: That our binary notions … Continue reading →

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Abstraction or Disruption

Posted on September 14, 2023 by julianstodd

Whilst preparing the work for my keynote on The Socially Dynamic Organisation this week, i found myself sketching out this image, considering ‘abstraction’ and ‘disruption’. The Social Age exerts pressure on many of our existing structures of productivity, effect, and … Continue reading →

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The Time Till Failure

Posted on April 18, 2023 by julianstodd

Sometimes failure is easy to perceive: a crash, shock or fracture. But if we focus our vision on the specific point of failure, we may miss the opportunity to learn from the run up, and legacy of it. Indeed, in … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Culture Explorer Programme

Posted on December 21, 2022 by julianstodd

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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Culture Explorers: Agility, Fracture, Failure

Posted on November 16, 2022 by julianstodd

Sharing half a thought today with a sketch i drew earlier for the Culture Explorer programme that i’m currently prototyping. I’m using this to consider three questions: what ‘Agility’ means (and whether it’s about individual behaviours aggregated up to culture … Continue reading →

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The Apple

Posted on October 3, 2022 by julianstodd

I was looking through a book with my three year old at the weekend, and he saw a medieval illustration depicting someone standing next to an apple tree. He asked me “why is that man putting apples in a tree?”. … Continue reading →

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Confusion, Cascades and Combinant Effects

Posted on April 6, 2022 by julianstodd

Whilst attributed to Gene Kranz, Mission Controller for Apollo, the quote ‘Failure is not an option’ was actually penned by the screenwriters of the 1995 Apollo 13 film. Kranz just liked it so much that he claimed it back for … Continue reading →

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The Human Within Failure, Complexity and Control

Posted on April 5, 2022 by julianstodd

Later today i’ll deliver the first workshop around Failure, Complexity and Control: i’m as ready as i will ever be, and excited to share it. I wanted to share a final reflection on this work before it’s first outing, largely … Continue reading →

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Building Complexity

Posted on April 4, 2022 by julianstodd

This week i’m running sessions around ‘Failure, Complexity and Control’, based around my book ‘To The Moon and Back – Leadership Reflections from Apollo’. Today i’ve been working on this quick illustration as i tie up the loose ends and … Continue reading →

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Failure, Complexity and Control

Posted on March 31, 2022 by julianstodd

With some irony, i am deep in complexity as i design a workshop for next week of the same name: this is a familiar feeling. Typically i start by trying to ‘say’ too much – too many slides, too many … Continue reading →

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