Tag Archives: Quiet Leadership

Illustrating ‘Power and Potential’

Posted on January 18, 2022 by julianstodd

Yesterday was a rather unsatisfactory day, my first working on illustrations for ‘Social Leadership: Power and Potential’. This is not uncommon: illustrating a book is a little like finding a voice in that sometimes you have to search around a … Continue reading →

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2021 Review

Posted on December 22, 2021 by julianstodd

This is the final blog post of 2021: in this, my primary reflective space, i’ve written around 50,000 words this year, and shared about 180 illustrations, all as part of #WorkingOutLoud. In 2021 i have deliberately given myself more freedom … Continue reading →

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Imperfect Leadership – The Map

Posted on September 13, 2021 by julianstodd

Last week i shared some early work around a new programme exploring ‘The Moral Leader’ – essentially this work considers ourselves as imperfect leaders within imperfect systems, and asks how we make the decisions that we make, and how we … Continue reading →

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The Moral Leader

Posted on September 8, 2021 by julianstodd

Some people act with an utter clarity, certain in the virtue and right of their efforts. I am happy for them. Because i am imperfect. What if the correct path is not always clear? What if we have to do … Continue reading →

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Trends of the Social Age

Posted on August 9, 2021 by julianstodd

To understand a system we typically start with point observations, and generalise from there, framed within our legacy understanding: look around you, see what is different at the granular level, what you can see and sense, and then generalise back … Continue reading →

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Kindness

Posted on July 26, 2021 by julianstodd

I’m guiding another Open Cohort through the Quiet Leadership work tonight: in the second session we consider ‘Kindness’ and the ways that we spend this social currency. Kindness is interesting: most people believe that it is important to be kind, … Continue reading →

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The Steps You Take Today

Posted on June 23, 2021 by julianstodd

If Organisations describe their cultural transformation as a journey of 10,000 steps, then Quiet Leadership is the first three of those, but the ones that you take today. Quiet Leadership is a model of leadership through the smallest of actions, … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership: Breath

Posted on March 22, 2021 by julianstodd

Quiet Leadership explores leadership through the smallest of actions: in that sense, it is neither glamorous, nor programmatic. Rather it is about the connections between the self and the system, between the smallest and largest, between the leaf and the … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership Research: Grace

Posted on March 11, 2021 by julianstodd

The final section of Quiet Leadership explores the notion of ‘Grace’, described as a fluidity of leadership, an agility of style and response. It’s about constant course correction, to find an individual expression of leadership in the smallest of actions: … Continue reading →

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Quiet Leadership Research: Fairness

Posted on March 10, 2021 by julianstodd

This is the third of four articles sharing an early interpretation of the Quiet Leadership research from the first two cohorts. This piece considers ‘Fairness’: these results are still very small scale, so not shared as a final version, but … Continue reading →

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