Tag Archives: Quiet Leadership

Quiet Leadership: An Endless Weight

Posted on December 15, 2020 by julianstodd

Quiet Leadership explores how, through the smallest of actions, we improve the system around us. It’s about leadership in the everyday, with humility, through kindness, fairness, and with grace. The final section, on ‘Grace’, is about a fluidity of style, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: How Do You Experience Fairness?

Posted on December 8, 2020 by julianstodd

Part 3 of the Quiet Leadership work explores the notion of ‘fairness’: how do we experience it, who is responsible for it, and what are the tensions that act upon it? In the metaphor of the Organisation as Ecosystem, i … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Is Kindness A Friction Upon The System?

Posted on December 3, 2020 by julianstodd

Part of Social Leadership is a willingness to look inwards: to take our assumptions and explore them from different angles and perspectives. Some of that reflective work we can do ourselves, whilst for other parts, to look into our shadow, … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on Kindness

Posted on November 26, 2020 by julianstodd

I am working on the design of the second week of the Quiet Leadership journey, which considers ‘kindness’. I have written about kindness quite frequently before, but this is my first attempt to consider it in a deliberately developmental way: … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: The Organisation as Ecosystem

Posted on November 24, 2020 by julianstodd

Today i am #WorkingOutLoud to share more of the emerging illustrations from the Quiet Leadership work: this one explores the ‘Organisation as Ecosystem’, a theme i have circled around from a number of directions in my broader work, but which … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: A View of Humility

Posted on November 23, 2020 by julianstodd

Humility is a judgement on our actions, not a badge that we can claim, and by that nature it is a hard thing to seek: if we ‘try’ to be humble to be more successful, we may be deemed to … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Degrading our Ecosystem

Posted on November 18, 2020 by julianstodd

Every day, through small actions, we both enhance, and degrade, the ecosystem that we exist within: in the work on Quiet Leadership i consider the Organisation itself as an ecosystem, a forest, filled with trees and shrubs, streams and rivers, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Things That We Give, Things That We Take

Posted on November 17, 2020 by julianstodd

I am #WorkingOutLoud as i develop the writing around Quiet Leadership: an exploration of gentle actions that draw strength into our systems. Today i am considering the Organisation as an Ecosystem, and that in each day we take some things … Continue reading →

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Prototyping Quiet Leadership

Posted on November 4, 2020 by julianstodd

Over the last several months i have been sharing some new work around Quiet Leadership: it’s about our individual actions and mindset, and the ways that we weave strength into the social system. It’s a view of leadership beyond heroes: … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Strength Through Connection

Posted on October 15, 2020 by julianstodd

This is my fourth iteration of language around Quiet Leadership, as i find my vocabulary and metaphors to shape this work. It’s an exploration of how individuals act within systems, and the ways that we find strength by making, and … Continue reading →

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