The Socially Dynamic Organisation (Social Leadership Guidebooks)

by Julian Stodd

Overview

A strange feature of Organisations is that they cast a massive shadow onto their own future.

 

The things that we do, the ways that we do them and the successes that we have are all held in the footprint that we land upon the earth. For Organisations, this footprint lies in assets, buildings, Reputation, Hierarchy, products and wealth. It is in the nature of Organisations to accrete both things and ways of doing things. 

Some of these legacies are huge; hence, the shadows that they cast are long.
 

But the thing about a shadow is that it should fall away from us. It should fall back into the past, whilst our future lies ahead where we are often blinded by the light.

Our challenge is to create a type of Organisation that respects this legacy but aims firmly towards the future, grounded in the brilliance of its people today.
 

For a new type of world, we will need a new type of Organisation: one that is lightweight and rapidly adaptable, that thrives in times of constant change, that respects the old but embraces the new.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165300998
Publisher:	Sea Salt Publishing
Publication date:	04/17/2023
Series:	Social Leadership Guidebooks
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Julian Stodd is an author, and founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global learning consultancy helping organisations adapt and thrive in the Social Age. Much of his consultancy work is around core elements of the Social Age: the need for Social Leadership, the design of Scaffolded Social Learning, planning for Organisational Change and the impacts of Social Collaborative Technology.

Julian comes from an academic background in communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning design, educational psychology, museum education and philosophy. He is a proud global mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and a Trustee of Drake Music, a charity that works to break down disabling barriers to music through education and research. He was awarded the Learning Performance Institute 'Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning' in 2016.

At its highest level, his work covers documenting the changes of the Social Age and sense-making what we do about it, and ranges from leadership to learning, culture to change, trust to humility. He has written ten books so far, including 'The Social Leadership Handbook', 'Exploring the World of Social Learning' and 'A Mindset for Mobile Learning', plus a Guidebook series each of which explores different aspects of Organisational design and change. All are under 10,000 words and include sections on ‘what you need to know’, and ‘what you need to do about it’.