A podcast from Cultivated. Each week, one word — its origin, its meaning, and what it still has to say about the way we work. Occasional episodes go deeper into the ideas, frameworks and field observations from the Cultivated library. Short listens for people who care about how work actually happens....and like the history and meaning of words.
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A podcast from Cultivated. Each week, one word — its origin, its meaning, and what it still has to say about the way we work. Occasional episodes go deeper into the ideas, frameworks and field observations from the Cultivated library. Short listens for people who care about how work actually happens....and like the history and meaning of words.
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July 24, 2026
Gratitude - A way of seeing what often remains invisible (Word at Work Series)
<p>This week's word at work is <strong>gratitude</strong> — and the fascinating side of it isn't the scheduled shout-out or the certificate ceremony. It's the recognition of the invisible base that's holding the whole thing up.</p><p><br>Drawing on David Whyte's reading of gratitude as a form of seeing, this episode looks at how most of what carries a business — the load-bearing communication, the quiet fixes, the translations between teams that couldn't otherwise hear each other, the people who often remain unsung — goes unnamed precisely because it works. And why a recognition programme, however well-meant, tends to pick off the visible tip while the base stays invisible.</p><p>The word gratitude comes from the Latin gratus — "pleasing, fitting" — long before it meant "thankful." Its deepest root means "to praise aloud." Gratitude was never originally a private feeling. It was a spoken recognition that something fit.</p><p>A short episode on gratitude as a discipline of attention, and the small question it leaves behind: what's carrying my work this week that I've stopped seeing?</p><p><strong>The Word at Work</strong> is a weekly series taking a single word, tracing where it came from, and asking what it might mean for the work we actually do. New episode every week.</p><p>Read the accompanying article: <a href="https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/gratitude-a-way-of-seeing/">https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/gratitude-a-way-of-seeing/</a></p>
July 16, 2026
Craft - What the word reveals about where your real power at work lives (Word at Work Series)
<p>This week's word at work is craft.</p><p>We've stuck the word <strong>craft</strong> onto almost everything — craft beer, craft fairs, hand-crafted, small-batch, artisanal — until it's gone soft around the edges and lost some of its meaning. Which is a shame, because underneath all of that, craft is carrying one of the best stories in the English language. </p><p>And it is a story about <strong>power</strong>.</p><p><a href="https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/craft-is-power/">https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/craft-is-power/</a></p>
July 10, 2026
Portfolio - the discipline of what you leave out (Word at Work Series)
<p>Most of us hear "portfolio" and typically picture two things: a trader's spreadsheet, or a designer's best work. </p><p>Trace the word back far enough — Italian porta foglio, "something that carries papers" — and a different meaning turns up. A portfolio was never really about the collecting. It was about deciding what was worth carrying in the first place.</p><p>This week we follow that word from leather case to investment fund to project board, and look at how something built for curation often turns into accumulation — a museum of things nobody remembers starting, kept because removing them feels harder than adding one more. </p><p>The better question was never "what should we add?" It's "what no longer belongs?"</p><p>A portfolio isn't a collection. It's a declaration — of what deserves attention, investment, and the outcome you're actually trying to reach.</p><p>----<br>If this is the kind of noticing you enjoy, there's more of it daily in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cultivatednotes">public commonplace project</a> on Instagram — observations, quotes, thoughts and captures shared publicly. Public Commonplace Project - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cultivatednotes">https://www.instagram.com/cultivatednotes</a></p><p>There's also talks, workshops, articles, books, free guides and a weekly letter over on Cultivated. <br>Start here: <a href="https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/start-here/">cultivatedmanagement.com/start-here/</a><br></p>
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