The Creative Leader’s Playbook

Written by Stuart Haden on June 27, 2025

This quote from Flow Radio’s episode The Creative Leader’s Playbook is so good I’m not going to touch it.

Steven Kotler sits down with artist, designer, and serial entrepreneur Jody Levy for a conversation on how intuition, constraint, and ritual unlock creativity — and why all three are non-negotiables for high-performance leadership…

“I think it comes back to time, when I have the gift of time I’m like oh my god what am I going to do with it.

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Tempered Radicals

Written by Stuart Haden on June 12, 2025

Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organisations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organisation.

On the one hand radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Whereas on the other their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by challenges. Possibly being angered by what they perceive as injustices or ineffectiveness,

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