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Hope, spirit and belief - Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — Sent Sunday, also in the members' archive. This week: Restoring hope, spirit and belief in work.
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Communication (Wiring)
Animal Communication Styles: Lion, T-Rex, Mouse and Monkey Explained
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
Impact, Letters and Noise - Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — Sent Sunday, also in the members' archive. This week: Writing letters, impact and noise.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Don't take the job
Fun at work isn't a perk or a Friday-afternoon extra. Read properly, it's the earliest signal you have of a team's health — a barometer that moves long before the dashboards do.
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The ratio, again - Meeting Notes
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.
Idea to Value (Physics)
AI, Interpretation, and the Widening Gap Between Idea and Value
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.
Idea to Value (Physics)
The shift from projects to products is real — and it's not just a renaming exercise
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.
Communication (Wiring)
When a good idea isn't enough
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
Thinking about the gap between action and knowing - Meeting Notes
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.
Idea to Value (Physics)
Six meetings to buy broadband
Ten executives spent six meetings deciding a thousand-pound broadband upgrade. On why debate without evidence is cost — and the smallest test is the fastest path forward.
Orientation & Direction (Map)
Remaining Relevant in a Changing Job Market
At a conference, a senior engineer told me he couldn't find a good job. Twenty minutes later, a hiring manager told me she couldn't find good people. They were both right, and they were describing the same problem from opposite sides.
Communication (Wiring)
Meet Dave - a response to the stick
A leader once ended a call saying she wanted "a stick to hit them with." On ranking teams, gaming the numbers, and why a team's metrics are a mirror — not a lever.