Thank you to everyone who helped me decide my Clore Leadership Programme research topic. I’ve settled on looking at the idea of ‘accelerated serendipity’, which I think actually encompasses the other topic I was considering: ‘conversational leadership’.
So, things have been progressing and I now have an academic supervisor (does this make him by boss?) in Russell Beale, a man I have a lot of time for and who shares many similar (and many more dissimilar) ideas to me around digital culture.
It’s taken a while to get going, mainly because of the disruption associated with the arrival of my son. Never start anything ambitious and new when you’ve just had a baby arrive is the advice I would give but unfortunately could never follow myself.
So, to kick this thing off I’ve spent the last few months on Google, setting up feeds on the subject and generally getting my bearings. What I’ve learnt already is that it’s a hugely interesting, devisive, diverse and (I’m hoping) relevant topic to research.
But I wanted to get some initial open ideas and discussions going on, so I’ve had a series of conversations with people, initially at Futuresonic 09 on the subject, and I’m going to post notes from each of the conversations here, as I’ll be doing with everything to do with my research – in the spirit of open innovation.
Let’s do this in an open way – I think it’s only appropriate.
On Serendipity
Thank you to everyone who helped me decide my Clore Leadership Programme research topic. I’ve settled on looking at the idea of ‘accelerated serendipity’, which I think actually encompasses the other topic I was considering: ‘conversational leadership’.
So, things have been progressing and I now have an academic supervisor (does this make him by boss?) in Russell Beale, a man I have a lot of time for and who shares many similar (and many more dissimilar) ideas to me around digital culture.
It’s taken a while to get going, mainly because of the disruption associated with the arrival of my son. Never start anything ambitious and new when you’ve just had a baby arrive is the advice I would give but unfortunately could never follow myself.
So, to kick this thing off I’ve spent the last few months on Google, setting up feeds on the subject and generally getting my bearings. What I’ve learnt already is that it’s a hugely interesting, devisive, diverse and (I’m hoping) relevant topic to research.
But I wanted to get some initial open ideas and discussions going on, so I’ve had a series of conversations with people, initially at Futuresonic 09 on the subject, and I’m going to post notes from each of the conversations here, as I’ll be doing with everything to do with my research – in the spirit of open innovation.
Let’s do this in an open way – I think it’s only appropriate.