Tag Archives: Ownership

The River

Posted on August 17, 2022 by julianstodd

Whilst in Wales last week i visited a friend who has recently bought a farm down there. It’s a smallholding really, the remnants of an estate sold off and subdivided over the centuries, but today, as well as the 16th … Continue reading →

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The Ownership of Stories. #WorkingOutLoud on ‘The Change Handbook’

Posted on April 30, 2018 by julianstodd

The ownership and control of stories within organisations can be a factor of ‘Resistance’ to change. I’ve just rewritten this section of the manuscript for ‘The Change Handbook’, to explore the question of ‘ownership’ in more detail. Some of you … Continue reading →

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Who Owns The Conversations?

Posted on March 21, 2017 by julianstodd

Many of the conversations i have in organisations are around engagement, around innovation, around culture. The focus is generally how we generate momentum, generate change. It’s easy to focus on the symptoms, without diagnosing the issue: technology may bring us … Continue reading →

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Change: To Own Or To Allocate?

Posted on October 29, 2015 by julianstodd

Just #WorkingOutLoud today as i start on the second part of the model that will take us from Resistant to change to simply Constrained. Over the last few days i’ve explored how we can segment resistance into 16 different areas, … Continue reading →

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16 Amplifiers of Change

Posted on August 12, 2015 by julianstodd

This week i’ve been exploring Change Curves: a new model for enacting dynamic organisational change. It starts by exploring where the organisation sits on a Change Curve: resistant to change, constrained by hierarchy, or co-creative and dynamic. To move up … Continue reading →

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4 facets of learning culture: creation, ownership, technology and change

Posted on June 27, 2013 by julianstodd

I’m interested in culture: how it’s formed, who owns it, who creates it, how it reacts to change, how it works in global social learning spaces. Culture is the foundations and the wallpaper: it influences us, grounds us, gives us … Continue reading →

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Popup learning: emergent communities and dynamic engagement

Posted on September 17, 2012 by julianstodd

It’s not just books that popup these days: in empty shop units across the country we see art galleries, cafes and even theatres popping up, bringing life to empty units and then moving on as their season ends. Popup culture … Continue reading →

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Floating Facebook. Who owns social learning environments and our social media lives?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by julianstodd

We increasingly live in social spaces online. For organising nights out with friends, to share photos of weddings, to connect with other people with an interest in gardening and to complain about the washing machine going wrong. We inhabit these … Continue reading →

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Using ‘Town Hall’ forums to facilitate change. How you need to create space for discussions to gain acceptance for change.

Posted on September 15, 2011 by julianstodd

Change is a complex thing, something that is fascinating when it happens to others, unsettling when happening to ourselves. I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a senior manager in a large organisation who described how they’d used ‘Town Hall’ … Continue reading →

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Out with the old, in with the new. Issues and ownership of change in large organisations.

Posted on June 21, 2011 by julianstodd

The only constant is change, or so it feels. it’s safe to say that organisations are rarely in a state of stability, but rather, exist in constant flux. The only certainty is uncertainty. Change is understood to be something that … Continue reading →

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