Tag Archives: Stories

How Stories Collide

Posted on February 10, 2021 by julianstodd

As social creatures, we communicate in stories: small and safe ones to establish commonality, membership, and trust, and bigger, more complex ones, to share ideas, or in service of finding new meaning. But stories are not like bricks: when you … Continue reading →

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Cultural Graffiti: A 5 Day Experiment – Day 2 – Curation

Posted on January 21, 2020 by julianstodd

Throughout this week i am sharing my latest ‘5 Day Experiment’, a structured way to explore a topic within your own Organisation. This one is about ‘Cultural Graffiti’. Feel free to share your results in the comments, on Twitter, or … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic [Pt 5]: the Organisation as Story and Belief

Posted on December 10, 2019 by julianstodd

This is the fifth in a series of pieces entitled ‘From Domain to Dynamic’. Collectively they explore a new model of Organisational Design that moves beyond hierarchy, infrastructure, and control, and into social collaboration, communities, and Individual Agency at scale. … Continue reading →

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Storytelling Experiment: Day 4 – Amplification

Posted on November 15, 2019 by julianstodd

I have been #WorkingOutLoud all week, sharing a 5 Day Experiment into Storytelling for Social Leadership. This is the Day 4 activity, which considers how stories may be Amplified. Instead of thinking about ways to push harder, or turn the … Continue reading →

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Storytelling Experiment: Day 2 – Story Handles

Posted on November 13, 2019 by julianstodd

Day 2 of our experiment: yesterday i asked you to consider the types of power that you use within your leadership. But power does not push stories through a system: often they are picked up and pulled. So we need … Continue reading →

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Storytelling Experiment: Day 1 – Power

Posted on November 12, 2019 by julianstodd

I am #WorkingOutLoud this week, prototyping a format of ‘5 Day Experiments’ for busy and aspiring Social Leaders. It’s not dissimilar to the approach i take in my book on ‘Social Leadership: My 1st 100 Days’, which also works on … Continue reading →

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The Story that Died

Posted on November 11, 2019 by julianstodd

I am running a five day activity around storytelling: it will explore why some stories fly, but others just die. I’m doing this because Social Leaders need to be expert navigators around the Landscape of Stories. They will understand that … Continue reading →

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Worth A Thousand Words?

Posted on February 7, 2019 by julianstodd

Some stories are meant to carry their meaning to a wide audience: they seek clarity, using images, metaphor, analogy, and prose, to provide clarity of understanding. They hope that ‘message sent’ is ‘message received’. Technology has driven us to ever … Continue reading →

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The Mailboat and the Myth

Posted on January 23, 2019 by julianstodd

St Kilda is the most remote of the Western Isles of Scotland, one of the most inaccessible parts of the UK, the archipelago separated from the nearest island by almost fifty miles of famously turbulent ocean. It’s an ancient landscape, … Continue reading →

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Running a Storytelling Experiment for Social Leadership

Posted on January 21, 2019 by julianstodd

The Social Leader will be a Storytelling Leader: not simply shaping and sharing their own narratives, but enabling, filtering, and amplifying, the stories that others tell. Specifically, they will understand the systemic nature of the Socially Dynamic Organisation, and the … Continue reading →

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