Nurture
Within an ecosystem approach, the role of a leader is potentially less clearly defined. Holding the edges of a space, monitoring, to be in motion, seeking balance, and finding a connection to the landscape. Less about ‘doing’, more about ‘being within’. Enabling. Creating space and opportunity. This may seem less defined, but it’s rigorous: engagement is tied to opportunity, and agency, and in the…
Nurture
Within an ecosystem approach, the role of a leader is potentially less clearly defined. Holding the edges of a space, monitoring, to be in motion, seeking balance, and finding a connection to the landscape. Less about ‘doing’, more about ‘being within’. Enabling. Creating space and…
21.07.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Landscapes
A landscape is not neutral, but rather something that we construct through our experience of it. And construct anew each time we experience it. A story within a space that is dynamic, over time. Landscapes are not simply expressions of physical geography: there can be a cultural landscape, a political one, a landscape of technology, and one of trust. All, at times, superimposed, or cohabiting, the same geography.
Landscapes
A landscape is not neutral, but rather something that we construct through our experience of it. And construct anew each time we experience it. A story within a space that is dynamic, over time. Landscapes are not simply expressions of physical geography: there can be a cultural…
09.07.2025 18:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Contexts of Performance
Tomorrow I facilitate the first session on High Performance, and will start by expanding on three perspectives: the ‘Context of the Social Age’, aspects of ‘Post Pandemic power’, and the ‘Advent of AI’. The Social Age charts an evolved ecosystem, a shift away from structural strength towards a more Socially Dynamic one. The story of the Post Pandemic era is that of a fractured relationship between power and place, and the Advent of AI is about our relationship with higher order thinking, and sophisticated artefacts.
Contexts of Performance
Tomorrow I facilitate the first session on High Performance, and will start by expanding on three perspectives: the ‘Context of the Social Age’, aspects of ‘Post Pandemic power’, and the ‘Advent of AI’. The Social Age charts an evolved ecosystem, a shift away from…
07.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Frames of Imagination
At an event today, exploring the impacts of AI, and I’m struck by how much of our imagination of what AI can do, or may be, is framed or constrained by our legacy structures of familiarity and understanding. It pushes us to look at optimisation - within existing structures of power and understanding - rather than creative destruction, alternative conceptions, or truly unconstrained rendering.
Frames of Imagination
At an event today, exploring the impacts of AI, and I’m struck by how much of our imagination of what AI can do, or may be, is framed or constrained by our legacy structures of familiarity and understanding. It pushes us to look at optimisation - within existing structures of…
26.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unbundling and Disaggregation
Our ability to bundle things together is part of our cognitive architecture: it’s inherent to how we learn, and beyond our own heads to how communicate, and hence imagine and construct our complex societies, as well as continue to evolve them. We ‘bundle together’ ideas of what we like, enjoy, or need, and call them our ‘culture’, our ‘values’, our ‘beliefs’.
Unbundling and Disaggregation
Our ability to bundle things together is part of our cognitive architecture: it’s inherent to how we learn, and beyond our own heads to how communicate, and hence imagine and construct our complex societies, as well as continue to evolve them. We ‘bundle together’…
19.06.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What We Can Be
It’s certainly true that a lot of things are in flux: a combination of forces, from the broadest evolutionary pressures of the Social Age, to the legacy of the pandemic on our structures of power and control, through to the radical disruption of generative AI, all are pushing us to become something new. But what we become will be moderated in different ways: partly judged by market forces, seeing how well we perform, partly by innovation and competitive advantage, seeing how we completed and partly judge by social consequence, a judgement on what we become.
What We Can Be
It’s certainly true that a lot of things are in flux: a combination of forces, from the broadest evolutionary pressures of the Social Age, to the legacy of the pandemic on our structures of power and control, through to the radical disruption of generative AI, all are pushing us to…
18.06.2025 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
From Unease to Insight
Considering Generative AI is a technology, our response to it is significantly human. In any conversation there tends to be a lot of intuition, feeling, thought, discomfort, certainty, and hope. I guess in this it’s not dissimilar to the experience I go through when rationalising buying yet more paintbrushes or oil paints: I am not analysing my purchase through the lens of the materials involved, but rather through the art I hope to create.
From Unease to Insight
Considering Generative AI is a technology, our response to it is significantly human. In any conversation there tends to be a lot of intuition, feeling, thought, discomfort, certainty, and hope. I guess in this it’s not dissimilar to the experience I go through when…
17.06.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Generative AI: Epistemic Fracture
This week I run the second prototype of the Strategic AI workshop, and am evolving some of the ideas from the initial work. This is typical of how ideas take shape, from the initial broad landscape, into something more structured, but seeking to retain the most vibrant collaborative spaces within that structure. Overall the first prototype went well, but as I expected, I rambled around too much, and hence ran out of time towards the end.
Generative AI: Epistemic Fracture
This week I run the second prototype of the Strategic AI workshop, and am evolving some of the ideas from the initial work. This is typical of how ideas take shape, from the initial broad landscape, into something more structured, but seeking to retain the most…
16.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Walls
Whilst humans have achieved many things, it is the structures of our separation that form much of our earliest archaeological record. Ditches and ramparts survive well, illustrating how became social, and then separate, at the same time. Boundaries form an increasingly important part of my work, and language, around Social Leadership, and the broader context of the Organisation as Ecosystem.
Walls
Whilst humans have achieved many things, it is the structures of our separation that form much of our earliest archaeological record. Ditches and ramparts survive well, illustrating how became social, and then separate, at the same time. Boundaries form an increasingly important part of my…
05.06.2025 19:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time and Money
The two most common reasons people cite as barriers to change are ‘time’ and ‘money’: the time to think what to do, and the means by which to do it. Which makes pretty good sense, as we often feel busy, and resource poor. But these are old currencies: the currencies of utility, infrastructure, and system. What we often seek today is creative innovation, invested engagement, and access to community, none of which can particularly be bought for money, or clearly correlate to time.
Time and Money
The two most common reasons people cite as barriers to change are ‘time’ and ‘money’: the time to think what to do, and the means by which to do it. Which makes pretty good sense, as we often feel busy, and resource poor. But these are old currencies: the currencies of utility,…
03.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Organisations and People
There is an irony in the difficulty of the quest that many of our Organisations are embarked upon, in search of discovering the relationship that they have with people. We have seen people treated as things, treated as resources, as assets, or as risk, treated as containers for skills, as vessels of purpose, or as followers and believers in some greater cause.
Organisations and People
There is an irony in the difficulty of the quest that many of our Organisations are embarked upon, in search of discovering the relationship that they have with people. We have seen people treated as things, treated as resources, as assets, or as risk, treated as…
02.06.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Structural Shifts in Learning
It’s clear that there is a great deal of disruption in the ‘Industry’ of learning, driven partly by new technologies, and partly by our evolving understanding of how we learn. The technology piece delivers significant changes, some tactical, some more holistic. At the most simple level, technology allows learning to come to people, as opposed to people travelling to learning, but more significantly this contextualises some learning within our ‘performance’ spaces.
Structural Shifts in Learning
It’s clear that there is a great deal of disruption in the ‘Industry’ of learning, driven partly by new technologies, and partly by our evolving understanding of how we learn. The technology piece delivers significant changes, some tactical, some more holistic. At the…
22.05.2025 15:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interdependence: Connected Systems
Increasingly I find my work carrying me to the edges of systems, and questioning the validity, or universality of the boundaries. In this, I feel that I am pushing at the edge of my own understanding, which has been in motion for some time. In the original Social Leadership work, I described that in terms of our ‘Formal’ leadership, and our ‘Social’ leadership, as if they sat next to each other.
Interdependence: Connected Systems
Increasingly I find my work carrying me to the edges of systems, and questioning the validity, or universality of the boundaries. In this, I feel that I am pushing at the edge of my own understanding, which has been in motion for some time. In the original Social…
21.05.2025 18:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reflecting on ‘Safety and Shelter’
It’s late here and I’ve just completed the first ‘Safety and Shelter’ journey, with a wonderful group who have travelled with me, across two sessions, exploring ‘loss’, ‘hope’, ‘resilience’, and ‘breath’. I think we have done well: I was a little worried that the four parts would not hold together, or that I would get lost along the way, but overall, it’s been a fairly ‘coherent’ journey, and we did not get too terribly lost.
Reflecting on ‘Safety and Shelter’
It’s late here and I’ve just completed the first ‘Safety and Shelter’ journey, with a wonderful group who have travelled with me, across two sessions, exploring ‘loss’, ‘hope’, ‘resilience’, and ‘breath’. I think we have done well: I was a little worried that the…
19.05.2025 19:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fragments – Disaggregation
The Social Age provides the context for a broad pattern of change, with historically cohesive features being unbundled, or disaggregated, by the pressures of the evolved ecosystem. Things that used to be coherent, simple, foundational, may prove to be complex, fragmented, or disposable. This may include things like citizenship, identity, education, infrastructure, fashion, or belief. In part this is because these things evolved within a set of constraints that have evaporated, or morphed so significantly as to no longer hold us back at all.
Fragments – Disaggregation
The Social Age provides the context for a broad pattern of change, with historically cohesive features being unbundled, or disaggregated, by the pressures of the evolved ecosystem. Things that used to be coherent, simple, foundational, may prove to be complex,…
15.05.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Graffiti Wall
I’ve spent the whole of today drawing, but in a different context than usual: I’m illustrating a giant graffiti wall, almost 20m long, with one continuous landscape, running from the sea, through farms and cities, deserts, and up into the mountains, then out to the far coast. It’s for an event I am running tomorrow on ‘The Organisation as Ecosystem…
The Graffiti Wall
I’ve spent the whole of today drawing, but in a different context than usual: I’m illustrating a giant graffiti wall, almost 20m long, with one continuous landscape, running from the sea, through farms and cities, deserts, and up into the mountains, then out to the far coast.…
13.05.2025 22:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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