Cultivated
For people who know work could be better — and are willing to do something about it. Talks, writing, teaching and consulting to help ideas become value.
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A practical breakdown of the Lion, T-Rex, Mouse and Monkey communication styles—and how to adapt your behaviour for clearer, more effective communication at work.
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — Sent Sunday, also in the members' archive. This week: Writing letters, impact and noise.
The meeting ends. People file out. Nobody lingers. There is no laughter, no side conversation that runs a minute too long — just movement from one room to the next. Experienced leaders notice it before they can name it.
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — Sent Sunday, also in the members' archive. This week: Revisiting the ratio of adding value, or auditing those who do.
We were scaling fast and the standard hiring playbook wasn't working. Skills alone didn't tell us who would thrive. So we studied the outliers.
Many organisations replacing people with AI aren't cutting costs — they're moving them, and often widening the gap between their ideas and the value those ideas should generate.
A senior leader stands in front of a slide titled "Our Product Operating Model" and describes, in fluent jargon, what is essentially a project plan with new vocabulary. The shift most enterprises are making from projects to products is real — and it is rarely the shift they think it is.
Most ideas don't stall because they're wrong. They stall because they never created value for the listener — and there's a small shift that changes how a room responds.
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — This week: Thinking about the gap between action and knowing. Sent Sunday. This is the members only archive version.
