Julian Stodd's Learning Blog

If you walk into any room that holds people, be it a boardroom, a team meeting, or a gardening workshop, you will find that power is already present, and in motion.

This morning I was reflecting on the development of parts of my creative voice – about how my journey through watercolour, acrylic, pen and ink, and oil, has had a common structure.

Much of my work, under a methodology of #WorkingOutLoud, is a mechanism to build out a vocabulary of practice.

There’s a charming story in the news today, about two men who have established a vineyard on a south facing patch of derelict land adjacent to Denmark Hill Station in South London.

Organisations are more than simply physical structures: more than just a building in our local landscape, more than an employment contract, more than a factory or production line, more than cloud computing, a competitive business models, or heroic leaders.

The new ‘Sketches of the Future Organisation’ work is really taking off nicely, and I have ten Organisations kicking off the diagnostic work in a first prototype over the next six weeks.

There is a general permeability to many boundaries that were historically watertight.

This is early stage #WorkingOutLoud – so feel free to skip it if you are seeking clarity… Yesterday I described the condition of ‘Normative Overhang’, where a value system has been projected past the point where it is structurally supported.

Over the last few months I’ve sensed an emerging social consensus about the use of AI in expression, characterised by both social pressure, and emergent tooling, that encourage AI use to be declared, or which give end users the ability to ‘detect’ AI use.

Fundamental to the Organisational capability we seek is the notion of being reconfigurable to need.