Julian Stodd

Author 'Social Leadership Handbook' &'Trust Guidebook'. Blog Founder @SeaSaltLearning. Sometime artist. Occasional thinker

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‘Engines of Engagement: a curious book about Generative AI’ is available to download for free, or buy now.

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We talk about bridge building as a healing activity. But of course, at times we attack across the bridge.

Who are the bridge builders in your system? Are you one of them - and what does it cost?

Social Leadership Daily - Day #917.
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In digital spaces you can literally see who is 'in', and you are notified when they leave. The architecture of inclusion has evolved. So have its shadows.

Our obligation is to walk towards the silence.

Social Leadership Daily - Day #916
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There is space between teams where nobody formally leads. It is Social Leadership, at the intersection of systems, that inhabits this space. Intertidal, liminal, at the boundary.

It is here that culture is negotiated.

Social Leadership Daily - Day #915.
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How do you know an edge? When you see it, hear about it, or trip over it? Are there edges that are invisible to you?

Social Leadership is held at the intersection of systems. Boundary sensing is the key capability.

Day #914.
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Social Leadership is held as motion - walking through the landscape, not standing on the hill looking out. And it carries an obligation to trespass: to cross boundaries, to carry across, to listen across.

Not all trespass is bad. Some is an obligation.

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Permission comes in two flavours: the kind you are given, and the kind you claim.

If I see you act with a permission I lack, I may assume it for myself. Permission is contagious.

Social Leadership Daily - Day #912 - Permission https://t.co/7XiUcRUotz

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Give something away today. Not money, but time, knowledge, a story, a doubt.

We give when we're winning. But we can also give when we have almost nothing left. Because what we give is not money.

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We cannot afford to get excited about the shape of the salt shaker every time we see it. Our brains run on low power.

The same is true of 'well done' and 'thank you' - said so often they fall into the background. Leadership needs a broad vocabulary.

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Trust is not a thing you have. It's a thing in motion - built, extended, tested, fractured, repaired.

What feels fixed, what feels fluid, what feels lost?

Social Leadership Daily - Day #907.

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The email you owe. The conversation you've avoided. The person you said you would help.

What do you owe, what are you owed - and how do you service these things?

Social Leadership Daily - Day #906.

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Where you place your attention is where your leadership lives.

Day #905.
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If I thank you personally, it has value. If I schedule it in the calendar, less so. If I send a bot to do it, the value is almost gone.

The recognition is the same. The investment is not.
Day #904 #leadership

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Good people remain silent. Not because they are not good, but because the cost is too high.

Social Leadership is not about the right path. It's about understanding all the costs, and who is paying them.
Day #903

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Delineation: Power Cartography https://t.co/pik7f9vzb9

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Not just 'thank you' - but 'thank you for this thing, and this is what it enabled me to do.'

Gratitude with context. One of the smallest and most powerful acts of #SocialLeadership.

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We trade in attention, trust, acknowledgement, time, patience. And their flip sides: anxiety, fear, doubt, vulnerability, uncertainty.

What do you trade today — and how do you earn these currencies?

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900 days with one question about leadership in the smallest of actions. Today's question: walk to the edge of the familiar, then take a step beyond. What does your world look like from there? A community across 46 countries, sixty seconds a day.
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The Vocabulary of Practice
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Our roots keep us grounded, hold us safe, but may also hold us back.

Where should your leadership be right now - anchored, or in motion?
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You are not the only person reading these words, and you are not alone in seeking to lead through small actions.

A community across almost fifty countries, for sixty seconds a day.

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