Tag Archives: Reflection

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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Loops of Learning

Posted on August 6, 2020 by julianstodd

Where possible, we can shift learning from ‘event’ based and into ‘experience’, which can be as simple as shifting focus from the internally self referential activities of a workshop, into the externally moderated activity of our everyday reality. Creating spaces … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership: Exploring your Power and Potential

Posted on June 18, 2020 by julianstodd

To become a Social Leader is a journey through a landscape, and probably one without end: it is something we strive for, but which constantly changes before us. For example: i have found myself thrashing around over the last few … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 10, 2020 by julianstodd

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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The Landscape of Curiosity and Mountain of Creativity: Social and Collaborative Learning

Posted on April 22, 2020 by julianstodd

Next month i have been asked to run a session on ‘Curiosity and Creativity’ in the design of effective remote learning, which has given me an opportunity to revisit this work and build out some practical design ideas. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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Restless Energy

Posted on April 21, 2020 by julianstodd

I find it valuable to remember that our energy is not limitless, nor our direction set. We must constantly course correct and remember that it’s as important to put things down as to pick new things up. I took last … Continue reading →

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Aspects of Learning, Rehearsal, and Performance

Posted on February 11, 2020 by julianstodd

Yesterday i provided an overview of how a Socially Dynamic Organisation will retain three clearly differentiated spaces, each of which is adequately supported, led, and engaged in, both by formal leadership, and individual members. The ability to hold these spaces … Continue reading →

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Blast Off: ‘To the Moon and Back’ – Launching Today

Posted on December 13, 2019 by julianstodd

My new book is published today: ‘To the Moon and Back: Leadership Reflections from Apollo’ takes us on a journey through eight stories about the Apollo programme. It explores how we set foot on the moon, then gave it all … Continue reading →

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The Intent of Kindness

Posted on September 11, 2019 by julianstodd

To act in kindness is to help others, not for your own benefit, but solely for theirs. Or so thought Aristotle, one of many social commentators who has professed a view. In the context of a reputation economy, i guess … Continue reading →

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My Father

Posted on August 20, 2019 by julianstodd

My father died yesterday. A peaceful end to a long and eventful journey. I am overwhelmingly sad, tempered by a gratitude for what he gave us, and how we were able to be together at the end. Writing about it … Continue reading →

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