creativity
Some books stay with us not only for what they say, but for when they arrive in our lives. This Cultivated Notes reflection explores the act of giving a book as a quiet form of care, creativity, and belief in someone’s future.
Meditations on Management emerged from fragments, unfinished notes, and ideas left to winter. This essay explores intellectual wintering, the persistence of certain themes, and attention as a quiet discipline of leadership and creative work.
Courage, in its original sense, is the willingness to listen to the heart and act accordingly. A reflection on meaning, work, and the quiet decisions that realign a life.
Ideas rarely create value on their own. They create value when we make something from them — and share that work generously. This short reflection explores how ideas spread, morph, and grow inside organisations, often in ways we never fully see.
Those who hold influence often discover they shape people more than they realise. This Cultivated Notes essay reflects on care, responsibility, and the quiet power leaders carry in shaping the emotional climate around them.
Most organisations don’t lack ideas—they lack climates where ideas can survive. This Cultivated Library essay reframes creativity as an environmental condition and leadership as the design of meaning, space, attention, safety, and constraints.
A good startup unfolds like a good story — fast beginnings, long messy middles, and endings that change us. This essay explores why meaning lives in the middle, and why those who’ve written one story often feel the pull to begin again.
Creativity in organisations rarely comes from big budgets and transformation programmes. It emerges from small acts of attention, constraint, and craft. The Ministry of Detail is where disproportionate impact is born.
An essay on Idea → Value as a sensemaking system, and why feedback circuits — not frameworks — determine organisational learning and value creation.