by Carlo Cuesta | Jan 21, 2026 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Feature
When fear has unfettered access to our community, the first thing to go is our creative capacity. The ability to imagine and take action toward a just and equitable future is displaced by an obsession to get back to normal, to shelter and protect what we have, or get...
by Carlo Cuesta | Dec 2, 2025 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
In the social sector, we often talk about capacity—do we have enough staff, funding, or time to deliver on our goals? But there’s a deeper question worth asking: Do we have the capability that this moment requires? At Creation In Common, we embrace...
by Carlo Cuesta | Nov 11, 2025 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
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 | 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...
by Carlo Cuesta | Aug 29, 2025 | Collaboration
History may credit Winston Churchill alone with leading Britain to victory, but real change depends on many leaders — all showing up with courage, clarity, and care in the case of crisis. In a sense, there was never just one Churchill. Today, we need 10,000...
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