Walls | Julian Stdd learning blog

While humans have achieved many things, it is the structures of our separation that form a large part of our first archaeological files. The ditches and the ramparts survive well, illustrating how social became, then separatedat the same time.

Boundaries Form an increasingly important part of my work and my language, around social leadership and the broader context of the organization as a ecosystem. These limits are an integral part of our objective and our effect, our community and confidence structures, and our mechanisms of power and control. But they are not all the same.

Some are universally, also apply to everyone, while others are individual, contextual or hidden. Which acts like a wall for me can be a bridge for you.

Sometimes our role, as social leaders, is to document and map these limits. Sometimes our role is to decompose or cross them. Sometimes it is our work to stand next to the border and listen to the stories and ideas that permeate through them or find themselves stuck on the other side.

Belonging itself depends on the separation and the border, as it is identify. Indeed, the culture itself is based on separation to be relevant.

In the context of social age, some of our historically fixed and waterproof borders (such as the walls of the office or the limits of knowledge, prove more fluid and contextual than imagined, even when we do not want this to be the case.

Perhaps an understanding of the limits is a legitimate mechanism by which understanding the context of change within our organizations, the understanding of which forms, has them and crosses them.