Tag Archives: Kindness

Quiet Leadership: The Organisation As Ecosystem

Posted on September 18, 2023 by julianstodd

Quiet Leadership considers leadership in the smallest of actions, through a guided reflection on ‘humility’, ‘kindness’, ‘fairness’ and ‘grace’. It takes place against the backdrop and notion of the Organisation as Ecosystem: interconnected, and yet beyond individual control. This week … Continue reading →

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The Humble Leader

Posted on March 6, 2023 by julianstodd

There can be a temptation to think about humility, and the other social currencies such as kindness, pride, fairness, or trust, as somehow peripheral, soft, or discretionary. But to do so may represent a failure of categorisation, of taxonomy, so … Continue reading →

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10 Ideas for the Future of Work

Posted on February 23, 2023 by julianstodd

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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Human[KIND]

Posted on June 20, 2022 by julianstodd

My work over the last two years has involved diving quite deeply into the ‘Social Currencies’ that bind together (or drive apart) our social context. This is a world governed by gut instinct, feeling, the things we ‘believe’ or hope … Continue reading →

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Kindness

Posted on April 20, 2022 by julianstodd

One of my friends uses a ‘Kindness Chart’ with her children: each time they are kind, they get a star for it. When the jar is full, they get a reward. So far so good. Yesterday she caught them at … Continue reading →

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The Quiet Leadership Book – available now

Posted on January 31, 2022 by julianstodd

My new Quiet Leadership book is published this week: it explores leadership in the smallest of actions, and specifically four central ideas of ‘humility’, ‘kindness’, ‘fairness’, and ‘grace’. It’s very much about ‘self’ – how we each individually act, what … Continue reading →

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Kindness

Posted on July 26, 2021 by julianstodd

I’m guiding another Open Cohort through the Quiet Leadership work tonight: in the second session we consider ‘Kindness’ and the ways that we spend this social currency. Kindness is interesting: most people believe that it is important to be kind, … Continue reading →

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The Steps You Take Today

Posted on June 23, 2021 by julianstodd

If Organisations describe their cultural transformation as a journey of 10,000 steps, then Quiet Leadership is the first three of those, but the ones that you take today. Quiet Leadership is a model of leadership through the smallest of actions, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: One Subject, Two Books

Posted on May 26, 2021 by julianstodd

This summer i am publishing two books in parallel: ‘Quiet Leadership’ and ‘The Humble Leader’. Both explore the same topic, but through two different mechanisms, and this week both have moved into production, which is an exciting time! Quiet Leadership … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership Research: Fairness

Posted on March 10, 2021 by julianstodd

This is the third of four articles sharing an early interpretation of the Quiet Leadership research from the first two cohorts. This piece considers ‘Fairness’: these results are still very small scale, so not shared as a final version, but … Continue reading →

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