Tag Archives: Power

Quiet Leadership: Growth

Posted on October 12, 2020 by

Does your power promote growth? How often is the effect of our power experienced as space to grow, or as ivy that chokes out the light? Our intention is not enough: it is the action that counts, but we are … Continue reading →

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5 Broken Things in the New Normal

Posted on September 8, 2020 by

Amidst much hype of a ‘New Normal’, some things may well have actually changed for good. The Pandemic carries with it two fundamental truths which have finally fractured some dominant narratives of the past. Firstly, real change happened fast, imposed … Continue reading →

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‘The Socially Dynamic Organisation’: Domains, Hierarchy, and Investment

Posted on July 30, 2020 by

The first chapter of my new book on the Socially Dynamic Organisation considers the origins of our existing Organisational Design, and the ways that ‘domains’ were established. These Domains have gone on to influence everything else: the ways that power … Continue reading →

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Space and Power

Posted on July 2, 2020 by

Around the world, spaces lie empty: University and Organisational campuses, Head Offices, Industrial Parks and Innovation Spaces. Their populations have not disappeared, but rather dispersed: home working, connected by technology, remote, but not apart. But not together in the same … Continue reading →

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Learning Leadership: Understanding Fear, Silence, and Constraint in the Experience

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

In 2018 i carried out research into Leadership using double sided graffiti walls: on one side, in full view, people illustrated and tagged what ‘leadership’ meant to them. On the back, out of sight, their remit was to deface leadership, … Continue reading →

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Social Movements: Activism and Power

Posted on June 8, 2020 by

Society is a structure of codified power, reflected in the shadows of architecture, institution, and opportunity. It’s an unequal narrative traded in stories, and experienced through language, action, and inaction. The ways that things ‘just are’ are the ways that … Continue reading →

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The Nature of Leadership

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

Leadership is an endemic term, more often used to describe a desired outcome than a specific set of skills or behaviours, and more often describing those things that we like or aspire to than to those that we actually experience, … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic: A New Model of Organisational Design [Pt 2] – Forces of the Social Age

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

Yesterday i started a new series exploring the need for a new model of Organisational Design: the move from the Domain Organisation, to the Socially Dynamic one. I introduced a definition of an Organisation as an entity of ‘collectivism’ to … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic: A New Model of Organisational Design [Pt 1]

Posted on December 2, 2019 by

The design of our Organisations of today is largely a legacy of industrial design, and the search for effectiveness at scale: it is a model that has served us well into the Digital Age, but may fall short in the … Continue reading →

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Storytelling Experiment: Day 1 – Power

Posted on November 12, 2019 by

I am #WorkingOutLoud this week, prototyping a format of ‘5 Day Experiments’ for busy and aspiring Social Leaders. It’s not dissimilar to the approach i take in my book on ‘Social Leadership: My 1st 100 Days’, which also works on … Continue reading →

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