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, 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 | 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...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jun 26, 2025 | Collaboration
There are very few nonprofits that can go it alone. Most of the field must rely on one another. Because of this, the most critical organizational currency is relationships: how we relate to our people, partners, and most importantly, how we connect with those we...
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