Tag Archives: Harold Jarche

The New Work

Posted on April 15, 2014 by julianstodd

When we sat exams at school, there was a little ritual at the start where everyone unpacked their pencil case: ink cartridges, sharpeners and a collection of mascots, in my case, a plastic dinosaur i think. My first office job … Continue reading →

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Working on the Social Leadership Handbook

Posted on March 25, 2014 by julianstodd

Just short posts this week: i’m in the Philippines working on a first draft of the Social Leadership Handbook. True to the principles of the Social Age, it will be an agile draft: likely updated each year (we do, after … Continue reading →

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Perpetual beta: Learning about Learning Technology

Posted on January 30, 2014 by julianstodd

Harold Jarche talks about work in ‘perpetual beta‘. It’s a great subversive notion: ‘we’re not there yet‘. When Google launched, for a number of years it’s logo showed ‘beta‘ underneath: a business still exploring, taking software notions of community testing … Continue reading →

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Employee or partner? A new contract in a social networked world

Posted on February 12, 2013 by julianstodd

The fundamental bond of trust between employer and employee is broken: people no longer expect a career for life. Generally, they are happy to still have a job next year. It used to be that your employer owned the structure … Continue reading →

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Communication: harder than you might think

Posted on January 23, 2013 by julianstodd

It would be nice to think that ‘message sent’ is always ‘message received’, but it is, of course, not the case. Our ability to miscommunicate is only matched by our certainty that our communication skills are superb. Finding our what’s … Continue reading →

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