Tag Archives: Purpose

Rust and Purpose

Posted on June 7, 2023 by julianstodd

In our built landscape we are used to dereliction and rust: the things that fade away, becoming redundant as our needs, or mechanisms of effect, change. Watermills, factories, churches and civic buildings, shops and houses: these things form a shadow … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Future of Work – Battle Lines

Posted on April 1, 2021 by julianstodd

We live in interesting times: there is a great deal of primary narrative about ‘the future of work’, with an increasing number of Organisations wading into one side of the battle or the other. Is home working the ‘aberration’ that … Continue reading →

Posted in Future, Learning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Perpetually Opposed

Posted on January 30, 2018 by julianstodd

As i’ve been thinking about communities, and the forces that bind them, i’ve reached what feels like an inescapable truth: that for any unity, there must be opposition, for any membership, there must be exclusion. I don’t mean active disenfranchisement … Continue reading →

Posted in Community | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Conditions for Community

Posted on June 21, 2017 by julianstodd

I’m working on some principles for supporting the development of Communities of Practice, so sharing this illustration, which is about ‘foundations’, what are the conditions for Communities to emerge? It’s not intended to be definitive, just part of a conversation … Continue reading →

Posted in Community | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Iceland: Abandoned

Posted on April 20, 2017 by julianstodd

I made the trek out to the plane wreck to take the iconic photos: aluminium undimmed by age, bright against the black ash, silhouetted by the distant mountains, decaying under a clear blue sky. There were no casualties when the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Walking, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Illustrations About ‘Community’ in Social Leadership

Posted on March 30, 2016 by julianstodd

Continuing to #WorkOutLoud as i complete the final illustrations for the 2nd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook: today, three core illustrations about ‘Community‘. These three images accompany the section where we consider where the communties are that we inhabit … Continue reading →

Posted in Book | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Cambodia Diary: Temples

Posted on January 22, 2016 by julianstodd

The mass of architecture simply delineates space: It subdivides and subtracts from the sum total of the world, partitioning off a series of spaces purposed for ritual, function or play. Be it mud walls, steel doors or stone ramparts, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

A Sense of Culture

Posted on July 29, 2015 by julianstodd

Our notion of culture seems tied to geography: a distinction that may be losing it’s relevance in the Social Age. For fun, today i’ve been sketching out a model of waves of culture, overlapping but distinct ways in which we … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture | Tagged , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Friends Forever?

Posted on February 26, 2015 by julianstodd

We were in a conversation today about establishing communities when Laura reminded me about ‘Friendship Books‘. A thing of our childhood, before the days of t’internet, the premise was this: a book, made of actual paper, where you wrote a … Continue reading →

Posted in Community | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Voices

Posted on February 13, 2015 by julianstodd

Whispering in the wind, echoing through hallways, buzzing like an angry fly down a bad phone line or whispered tenderly late at night. Voices of purpose and intent, voices that implore or beg us to take action, bullying or directive … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments