If you’ve ever stared at a spreadsheet wondering how your organization was going to stay afloat, you’re not alone. Many of us have faced the spiral of doubt: What can we cut? Who can we ask for help? Will this be the moment that breaks us?
Scarcity is real. But it’s not just financial—it’s also emotional, relational, and systemic. And perhaps the most dangerous kind of scarcity is the one we don’t notice: the scarcity of imagination.
When we’re locked in a scarcity mindset, we tend to narrow our thinking. We revert to old habits, retreat into isolation, and double down on control. But leading in complex, uncertain times is not about finding quick fixes. It’s about learning to see differently, sense more deeply, be together in discomfort, and create something new with others.
This is the heart of what we call Shared Creativity. It’s a way of leading and working that brings people into deeper relationship with themselves, with one another, and with possibility. It’s also a bridge from scarcity to abundance.
Because abundance is real too.
It lives in strong relationships, in shared purpose, in clarity born from courage. Abundance emerges when we move beyond transactional thinking and invest in reciprocal connection. It appears when we stop trying to control every outcome and instead start building environments of trust, agency, and imagination.