Tag Archives: Social Age

Islands of Belief

Posted on September 18, 2018 by

We live on islands of belief, carefully forged by our immersion in local culture, established education, held in tribal groupings, dominant doctrine and ideology, and internally reinforcing: to be within the tribe reinforces the strength and resilience of the tribe … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership: Citizenship

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

Yesterday i reflected on democracy, our structures of representation, and the ways in which they are adapting, which led me today to consider ‘citizenship’, a reflection on responsibility, as well as rights. I’ve tentatively contextualised this within Social Leadership, to … Continue reading →

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The Death of Democracy

Posted on July 17, 2018 by

Fake news, foreign intervention, echo chambers, big data and analytics, you’d be forgiven for assuming that we are witnessing the death of democracy, the final gasp of liberal societies first, and best, hope, assailed unaccountably by social tech and evil … Continue reading →

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The Social Punks Podcast: Update

Posted on July 16, 2018 by

I wrote the other week about a series of six podcasts that i’m working on: they each explore a broad aspect of the Social Age, but with a punk perspective. In other words, they look at broadly what is happening, … Continue reading →

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The Social Punks: #WorkingOutLoud on the Podcast Series

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

For the last year or so, i’ve been writing an Explorer newsletter every Friday (that’s why there’s no blog published fridays!). ‘The Captain’s Log’ has given me an opportunity to explore a different type of writing: it’s slightly longer form, … Continue reading →

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A Failure of Foresight: Foundations of Failure

Posted on June 26, 2018 by

The way we view the world may be wrong: our greatest Organisations, structures of power and control, may be trapped in an outdated mindset, caught in redundant webs. Through our own failure of foresight, i believe that we sow the … Continue reading →

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Building the Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

The Social Age frames an existential threat for many organisations: they have grown up in a known world, with established frames of education, career, economics, and power, and now find themselves alienated from all of those ideas. Our new world … Continue reading →

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