Julian Stodd's Learning Blog

I clearly remember hiking the South West Coastal Path in my mid twenties, mainly for the injury I picked up to a tendon. It was nothing dramatic: no stumble or fall. Just the very deliberate choice to wear the wrong boots.

As Sae and I count down towards the publication of ‘Unreconciled: being human in the 21st Century’, I’m sharing some extracts from the book, alongside some notes and reflections on how the work came about (you can sign up here to rece...

Does the language of ‘Skills’ still serve us well? In this early stage #WorkingOutLoud, I lay out a position that says ‘yes’, but within a much more narrowly defined context. It takes the position that we now have the instrumentation and social context to understand capability in new ways – at the structural level – in more granular detail, and that with these tools and persp...

One of my favourite programmes to guide is around my work on ‘Disorientation and Imperfection as Lenses for Leadership’. I like it because it forgives the nature of my practice, and because it’s genuinely liberating for some people.

I have a great many things on the go right now, some of which, like the ‘Sketches of the Future Organisation’ work, is being pulled into practice before I’ve even finished writing it. I’ve always tried to segment my work...