by Carlo Cuesta | Nov 11, 2025 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Feature, Uncategorized
There’s a moment we’ve seen over and over again: An organization’s budget collapses. A key partner disappears. A political shift makes everything suddenly fragile. You look around the table—your team is dazed, scrambling, or just flat-out tired. You know something has...
by Carlo Cuesta | Oct 19, 2025 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
We define creative tension as the space between our greatest opportunity and our greatest challenge. It’s not just a stretch or a gap—it’s the living edge of change. The zone where possibility hasn’t yet hardened into certainty, and where the work of transformation is...
by Carlo Cuesta | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Power is seductive. It feels like control, like certainty. And in nonprofit leadership, it’s easy to believe that if only we had more of it—more money, more connections, more influence—we could finally do the work we were meant to do. But here’s the paradox:...
by Carlo Cuesta | Sep 30, 2025 | Case Studies, Feature-Education, Publications
In 2025, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) engaged Creation in Common to lead a groundbreaking effort to learn directly from the voices and experiences of the state’s youngest K-12 learners—kindergarteners. Centering child engagement across Minnesota, this...
by Carlo Cuesta | Sep 23, 2025 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
Shared creativity can move us from scarcity to abundance. Here’s how: 1. Seeing Together: Oxygen Over Urgency When organizations face pressure, the reflex is to act quickly. But fast decisions made in narrow frames often reinforce the very problems we’re trying to...
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