The Violence of Stories

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words are, allegedly, harmless. Or maybe not. There can be a violence in communication, not an act of physical aggression, but aggression nonetheless. The violence of vitriol, carefully constructed to cause pain. I was struck by this in a conversation about change, a conversation that moved to blame, fault, and tribalism.

If you would like to read the original article, or more of Julian’s work visit his blog at  https://julianstodd.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/the-violence-of-stories/

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A Time for Answers?

We are relocating from a space of certainty, to a place of doubt: our domain based Organisations, with the systems of education that feed them, and the markets that sustain them, all evolving. This is not a time for answers, but rather a time for questions, and to consider the mechanisms of sense making that will help us to ask the right ones.

If you would like to read the original article, or more of Julian’s work visit his blog at https://julianstodd.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/a-time-of-answers/

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