Tag Archives: Social Age

Belief: Exploring the Landmarks of the Social Age

Posted on July 7, 2020 by

This is an extract from a chapter i am working on for the ‘Social Age Guidebook’: it concerns the evolution of belief, both in terms of expression, and investment. It’s imperfect work, shared as part of #WorkingOutLoud. Our second Social … Continue reading →

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Certainty

Posted on June 25, 2020 by

Today i am sharing one of the first sections of the ‘Social Age Guidebook’ text: this extract forms one of the ten ‘landmarks’ that we explore through the book and concerns our own ‘certainty’ as to how things just are. … Continue reading →

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The Complexity of Scale and the Ways that we Change

Posted on June 23, 2020 by

Some things are large, and others are small, but their effect does not always correlate to size. I’m taking some time this week to consider ‘scale’, with a view to understanding what it is exactly that we need to grow, … Continue reading →

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Illustrating the ’Social Age Guidebook’

Posted on June 22, 2020 by

My next two Guidebooks will be published as a matched pair: ‘The Social Age Guidebook’ explores ten aspects of the Social Age, and ‘The Socially Dynamic Organisation’ considers the new type of Organisation we must build to thrive within it. … Continue reading →

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The Social Age Guidebook Series: Free Action Focussed Resources

Posted on June 16, 2020 by

Over the last two years i have published six Guidebooks in the Social Age series: they’ve formed a clear attempts to carry work forward from the blog into a more developed, and action focussed, format. Broadly speaking, each takes an … Continue reading →

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This Book is Imperfect: The Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on June 2, 2020 by

I’ve just submitted the final text and illustrations to the designer for my next Social Age Guidebook, which explores ‘The Socially Dynamic Organisation’ as a new model of Organisational Design. I first started to share work around this idea in … Continue reading →

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A Story of Leadership

Posted on May 6, 2020 by

We live in a time of uncertainty and change, where complex challenges will require creative solutions, and strength will lie in agility and invested engagement. The Social Age sees an evolved social contract between employee and Organisation, the emergence of … Continue reading →

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Restless Energy

Posted on April 21, 2020 by

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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The Nature of Leadership

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

Leadership is an endemic term, more often used to describe a desired outcome than a specific set of skills or behaviours, and more often describing those things that we like or aspire to than to those that we actually experience, … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic: A New Model of Organisational Design [Pt 2] – Forces of the Social Age

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

Yesterday i started a new series exploring the need for a new model of Organisational Design: the move from the Domain Organisation, to the Socially Dynamic one. I introduced a definition of an Organisation as an entity of ‘collectivism’ to … Continue reading →

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