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When you read about the process through which Finland created its current national curriculum, you realise what a poor, poor process we have in this country in comparison.

'being in the flow of time implies relentless interweaving of present, past, and future among flows of on-going processes.' Hernes (2022)

'The most fundamental problems in organizational research relate to various forms of continuity and change, both of which are inextricably linked to time.' Hernes (2022)

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Looking at government decisions & policy it is apparent that we have a C19th structure using linear thinking which is wholly inadequate for a complex context which requires interdepartmental thinking. Our system of government and the political ecosystem which surrounds it is woefully out of date

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An amazing book. Just finished a very close read and lots to really reflect on and embed in my work

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

'attempts at organizational change tend to be unsuccessful, not because actors fail to see that they are needed or important, but because they tend to fizzle out as the energy and commitment around a course of action is not re-created at successive presents.' Hernes (2014:169)

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

In a world that will eventually need to choose between barbarian and ecological socialism, there are some days when I can't help but think that we're heading towards barbarism!!

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Lovely sunset to finish the week

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

The more I listen to others talk about work, the more I'm convinced that a core problem is that if time - time linked to change, to workload, and to accountability. We need to fundamentally change our understanding of time in organisations or the problems we face will become evermore acute.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The English ITE review and accreditation kicked into action over two years ago, and I'm sure those involved in policy saw them as events. However, those events have triggered a whole tangle of ongoing processes which are still not wholly understood or complete - policy is processual.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

@draimeequicks.bsky.social, Matt Barley and I have started writing our new book this week. A central jumping off pint is Ron Glatter's paper from 2006 where he argues that leadership interests need to be embedded in a consideration of organisation rather than being too self-referential.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Huw Humphreys from University East London has helped me sharpen my thinking on organisations. Now thinking in terms of a Dissociative-Integrative Organisation spectrum model. The more dissociative end looks something like this

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

A first sketch out of a schematic of The Dissociative Organisation

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Beginning to play with the idea of the 'Disassociative Educational Organisation ', based on the idea that organisations are made up of two parts 1) The Formal Organisation - that of manager-leaders focused on planned change and hence plans, dataveillance, performance management etc.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Some thoughts and reflections on leadership in education.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Stunning sunset this evening

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Try to watch Call My Bluff every Monday on BBC4. It's one way of remembering my Dad. When we were kids we'd watch it with him. As a linguist fluent in a range of languages it was obviously pure joy for him every week and his enthusiasm would rub off on us. Still love it.

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

One of our papers (me and @draimeequicks.bsky.social) is finally in print bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Beautiful late afternoon after the storm

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

'Scripted processes are...fundamental to organizations and, yet, through their sheer ubiquity, are often seen as mundane, and overlooked or taken for granted.' Jarzabkowski, Le and Spee (2017:241)

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Issues of recruitment and retention in the English education system are systemic and complex. Using some form of 'Officer Krupke' approach really won't work.

Incredibly strong moonlight this evening.

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Thinking about what a processual analysis of a Nobel would look like. Novels are essentially a tangled,emergent flow of experiences; tangles of different characters' experiences, tangles of past, present and future experiences and the art of the writer centres on how they create the tangles and the

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'While a 'snapshot epistemology' may be suitable for ontologically stable entities such as buildings, it may be less appropriate to understand emergent processes, such as change, creativity, learning, and knowing.' Reinecke and Ansari (2017: 407)

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Heraclitus reflects that we can never step into the same river twice - the flow of water makes the river ever different. We need to see organisational change more like this. Popular models often see change like a tap, something leaders can turn on and off. And when off, change doesn't occur.

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Part of process philosophy is that all we have, all we are, is experience. When we think, reflect or talk it's essentially experience we are dealing with. Even books are only captured and stabilised networks of experience. Perhaps this is why we fear mental illnesses and mental decay so acutely.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Reading through some work on process-time, which is indexical to events, activities and experiences rather than clock-time, stresses how organisationally we see the world through our understanding of time. Is this why improvement plans tend to be constrained to a year (actually about 9 months)?

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The masters sessions we've been having have been really interesting and reflective. I really do think that we need to rebalance in the research community - leadership is very important but it's embedded in organisation and governance. We need to reflect this complexity much more.

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Some really interesting insights from the first day of the Inner Development Goals Summit. innerdevelopmentgoals.org/events/summi...

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IDG Summit 2024 – Inner Development Goals

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

This week's reflective questions poat-sessuon focusing on the meaning of leadership.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

I think this tells us something about how leadership is perceived in education and why it needs to change. Is this the negative impact of quasi-marketisation and academisation and it's valourisation of leadership?

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Can't help feeling that the first 100 days of the Labour government is suffering from the same malaise as the last Conservative government - parties seem so geared to winning power, they're not ready to use it once they have it. Even in government parties appear to focus on campaigning rather than

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

A major implication of process philosophy is that we can't study leadership as a 'thing' firstly it is a verb, so it should be a 'leading' research area, and secondly it makes no sense unless embedded explicitly within organisational structures as leading and organising flow through each other

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Is work essentially the flow of experiences we have as we carry out a defined set of activities? And hence do these flow into other activities 'at the margins'?

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

'Change is not something that happens to things, but the way in which reality is brought into being in every instant.' Langley and Tsoukas (2017: 4)

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Geomorphica @geomorphica.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Hello new followers! Please repost so we can reach a much wider audience!

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

' 'The office' is clearly an abstraction from the flow of human and technological events that have somewhat blurred boundaries, overlapping with 'the lunch crowd', 'school', & all the other relational processes that constitute our interwoven lives.' Mesle & Dibben (2017: 36)

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

'Whitehead...enable(s) us to see that our perceptions and conceptions of ordinary objects are ultimately abstractions from the processes that constitute them.' Messle & Dibben (2017: 35)

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Home late after evening teaching, but a great backdrop on this evening's walk.

Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Love this, the assumed substance metaphysics of Romance languages.

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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Another great Lincolnshire sky.