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...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jun 9, 2025 | Collaboration
The key to a successful board of directors is healthy collaboration between the board chair and the organization’s executive director. It sets the tone for how the board and staff work together by empowering the board to focus on governance while staff concentrate on...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jun 9, 2025 | Collaboration, Uncategorized
This decision matrix tool is designed to help clarify and delineate the roles and responsibilities between a nonprofit board of directors and the executive director or staff. By identifying who is responsible, accountable, consulted, or informed in key organizational...
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