🫛 How green is your leadership thumb?


"Living systems
don't need micromanagement. They need tending."

We often think leadership is about driving outcomes or steering the ship. But what if it’s more like tending a garden?

In this week's article, Melis offers a fresh take; leadership as ecology. Instead of pushing harder, it’s about creating the right conditions for growth.

Like in nature, thriving doesn’t come from control, but from care, timing, and attention to what’s needed. When leaders focus on the work environment, not just the output, people flourish.

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Creativity returns.

Trust grows.

Good things happen.

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This isn’t soft, it’s smart. It’s a call to lead more like nature does: with patience, presence, and a deep respect for the systems in which be all exist and belong.


Latest article

✍️ The Ecology of Leadership (from control to conditions)


Latest Podcast

🎙️ Episode 4 of The Smoosh Podcast
Title: Sparky Sparky Boom Boom


What's happening with Melis

Reading:
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Listening to:
A Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Doing:
NOT the crochet squares! They need a rest. She's knitting a scarf instead. Winter is coming...

Pondering:

The 2027 AI report (https://ai-2027.com) and pondering what our response should be as heart-centred, values-drive designers and leaders.


What's happening with Ben

Reading:
Training from the Back of the Room by Sharon L. Bowman

Listening to:
Worklife podcast with Adam Grant

Doing:
A LOT of workshop facilitation.

Pondering:
Why he hates the term 'soft skills' so much! There's an article brewing about this topic. Stay tuned...


An invitation: consider where in your life you can move more between control and surrender. Maybe even dance with it. Shimmy shimmy...

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