The ecosystem of engagement in learning
We do not learn in isolation: we inhabit a rich ecosystem of media, all competing for our attention. TV adverts, posters on the sides of buses, radio, new music, films, the xBox, books, emails from...
View ArticleUncertainty is the only constant
The Social Age is about constant change: the evolving nature of work, a changed relationship with knowledge, agile technology and the blurring of the space between formal and informal spaces. This is...
View ArticleThe Future of Leadership
I was asked to write a few pages on the Future of Leadership this week. I’m sharing it here. Regular visitors will recognise parts of this narrative. We live in the Social Age, where formal models of...
View Article#GoogleGlass: Agile Ecosystem of Technology
My conversations about Google Glass are falling into a pattern: ‘what is it?‘, ‘what does it do?‘, ‘what about *insert name of other technology*‘. The gadgets in our lives are no longer viewed in...
View ArticleIn Balance
We still need everything that the formal world gave us: it’s just that to be successful, we also need to adopt and inhabit the Social too. Why? Because our ecosystem has evolved, because what we know...
View ArticleMapping the Social Age: update
In January i’ll draw my third map of the Social Age. Why? Because it’s out of date. That’s the thing with maps: they chart our current understanding, but are subject to further exploration, which is...
View ArticleDimensions of Disruption
Last week i shared an initial sketch of a framework around ‘dual paradigms of disruption’: the notion is that we are seeing two aspects of change, the first being disruption within our constructed...
View ArticleGuide to the Social Age 2019: Belief
This post is one of a series exploring aspects of the Social Age, written as i complete the sketch map for 2019. Belief: Organisations exist in many different ways. They are legal entities, which give...
View Article#FutureWork – a Series of Imperfect Essays
This week i’m sharing a short series of imperfect essays exploring aspects of the evolution of work, and the Organisations that it takes place within. Specifically, i am not trying to make this a...
View Article#FutureWork [Pt 4] – Office into Ecosystem
I am writing a series of essays exploring #FutureWork: these are fragments of thought, not presented and ‘answers’, but rather provocations for conversation. Today i am sharing a piece which considers...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: Growth
Does your power promote growth? How often is the effect of our power experienced as space to grow, or as ivy that chokes out the light? Our intention is not enough: it is the action that counts, but we...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: Things That We Give, Things That We Take
I am #WorkingOutLoud as i develop the writing around Quiet Leadership: an exploration of gentle actions that draw strength into our systems. Today i am considering the Organisation as an Ecosystem, and...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: Degrading our Ecosystem
Every day, through small actions, we both enhance, and degrade, the ecosystem that we exist within: in the work on Quiet Leadership i consider the Organisation itself as an ecosystem, a forest, filled...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: The Organisation as Ecosystem
Today i am #WorkingOutLoud to share more of the emerging illustrations from the Quiet Leadership work: this one explores the ‘Organisation as Ecosystem’, a theme i have circled around from a number of...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: The Organisation As Ecosystem
I am #WorkingOutLoud to share writing from the Quiet Leadership book that i am working on. This piece is a rewrite of several previous descriptions of the Organisation as Ecosystem, and i hope will...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: Nobody Alone
Quiet Leadership recognises that the Organisation is like an ecosystem: yesterday i shared a piece that explored this. Today, as i continue writing the Guidebook that accompanies the journey, i...
View ArticleQuiet Leadership: Breath
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,...
View ArticleNurture
I ate the first strawberry from the garden today, and let me tell you, it was magnificent. The best strawberry i’ve had all year. Juicy, full of flavour, and deeply satisfying. Not because i am a good...
View ArticleFragments: The Organisation As Ecosystem
As we consider the ‘Organisation as Ecosystem’, some fragments of thought that may come to us: To understand it, we must move through it. We can stand on a hilltop and see to the horizon, but we can...
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