Tag Archives: Power

Leadership as Practice

Posted on May 30, 2023 by julianstodd

Within the constraints and context of Organisational development, it’s not unusual for us to view leadership as both an active and additive quality. That we can somehow train leaders to ‘do’ things to systems, to ‘drive’ behaviour or ‘deliver’ outcomes, … Continue reading →

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Culture: Transmission, Influence and Decay

Posted on May 24, 2023 by julianstodd

Our mechanisms of culture have become more streamlined: the cycles of innovation and influence, proliferation and decay ever faster. The technologies that have given us our radical connectivity and proliferation of spaces that create the context of the Social Age … Continue reading →

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The Contexts of my Work

Posted on March 14, 2023 by julianstodd

This is early stage #WorkingOutLoud as i consider the ‘Contexts of my Work’. Throughout this year i am taking a pause, to look back at my work so far, exploring the context of the Social Age, and to look forwards, … 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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Your Power

Posted on November 30, 2022 by julianstodd

Today i am just #workingOutLoud reflecting on Power. We inhabit not one, but multiple systems of power: some codified, formal and visible, others hidden, or highly contextual. But all interacting in different ways with one another. Power does not operate … Continue reading →

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The Fragility of Power

Posted on November 10, 2022 by julianstodd

All power has boundaries, all can be opposed. When we consider ‘power’ within our systems, we often think about gain, about strength, but equally valuable is to consider our fragility. Where do the edges lie, and what can split it … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on Culture and Power

Posted on November 2, 2022 by julianstodd

Just a simple illustration today: that culture is a landscape, but we feel the weather differently, dependant upon where we stand . This piece considers ‘power’ and the ways that it acts upon us. For example, our ‘reputation’ may be … Continue reading →

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All About Power

Posted on October 13, 2022 by julianstodd

One of the central features of the Social Age is a rebalancing of power, held into a shift towards more multi dimensional landscapes of power. In general, we see that the individual, with Social Authority, held within community, can find … Continue reading →

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Culture

Posted on September 6, 2022 by julianstodd

To the extent that it is discernible at all, culture is held in our lived experience, framed by the architectural structures of the built environment, our behavioural and codified rituals, our systems of individual and shared belief, imbued tokens of … Continue reading →

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Mission, Culture, Values

Posted on August 24, 2022 by julianstodd

In ‘The Socially Dynamic Organisation’ i explored a new model of Organisational design, based upon the notion that the context of Organisations has evolved (the Social Age), the nature of engagement has shifted (to intersection of formal and social), and … Continue reading →

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