Adaptable Communication: The Warm and Fluffy Test
Discover how adaptable communication enhances collaboration, resolves conflicts, and drives better results by tailoring your approach to different audiences and situations.
Rob Lambert
When Cutting Costs Destroys Purpose
A quiet lunch at a local pub revealed a familiar organisational failure: cutting costs without understanding purpose. When efficiency undermines experience, the real costs show up elsewhere — in trust, reputation, and long-term value.
Fear, Rejection, and the Creative Process at Work
Creativity is rarely blocked by a lack of ideas. It’s blocked by fear — fear of rejection, embarrassment, and getting it wrong. This essay explores why creating feels so vulnerable at work, and what helps people keep going anyway.
Noise: Why Your Message Isn’t Landing at Work
Whenever we communicate, noise gets in the way. Understanding the different types of noise — and how they distort meaning — is one of the most important communication skills managers can develop.
Why I Use an Analogue Personal Knowledge Management System
Slowing down learning is sometimes the fastest way to grow. This essay explores why analogue tools help turn information into knowledge — and how a personal knowledge system should change behaviour, not just store notes.
Inside the Cultivated Studio
An essay on building a studio — not as an office, but as a place for thinking, making, and turning ideas into value.
What a Weekend Retreat Taught Me About Creating Space
A short personal essay on stepping away, facing creative fear, and discovering that retreats don’t remove tension — they reveal it.