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The fog of war does not only exist on battlefields
The fog of war is a phrase that originally belonged to military strategy…those moments where commanders were forced to make decisions while visibility remained partial, communication fractured, and information arrived distorted through fear, delay, assumption, ego, or incomplete observation. From a distance, war often looks like movement directed by certainty. Inside it, however, people are…
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Embrace Uncertainty as a Source of Innovation, Adaptability & Competitive Advantage
Embracing uncertainty is critical to your success, especially in this volatile, rapidly evolving business landscape. However uncertainty goes against the grain of us humans, who want to control our environment. Margie Warrell PhD, tells us that embracing uncertainty is critical to our success. In a Forbes article, written almost a decade ago she shares: We…
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Never Let Fear Take the Wheel
Fear is not always easily identified. Sometimes it arrives dressed as prudence… as professionalism… as timing. It tells you to wait a little longer, gather a little more data, soften the ask, delay the decision, stay inside the version of the plan that feels least exposing. And because it rarely introduces itself as fear, it…
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When Leaders Try to Run Living Systems Like Closed Algorithms
There is a quiet assumption that sits beneath much of modern management thinking, and it becomes most visible when pressure enters the room. Faced with urgency, complexity, or reputational risk, many leaders instinctively reach for models that promise certainty. They search for the cleanest diagnostic, the most efficient lever, the fastest sequence of actions that…
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Deconstructing Performance Theater in the Workplace
Most organizations believe they are practicing accountability. What they are often practicing is performance. Something goes wrong and the conversation begins almost immediately, but the purpose of the conversation quietly changes before anyone notices. Instead of trying to understand the sequence of decisions that produced the outcome, the group begins trying to restore certainty. Uncertainty…
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Are You Naming the RIGHT Problem?
Leaders spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to solve problems, and far less time asking whether they are solving the right ones. We gather smart people in rooms, analyze data, debate options, and emerge feeling productive because something has been clarified. Yet clarity, by itself, is a slippery comfort. It can give the impression…
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Wealth, Optionality, and the Deliciousness of “No”
The Economic Times features a quote each day. Today’s quote is from Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Lebanese-American New York Polytech Professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist; whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. There’s…
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Searching for a Mustard Seed
The tiniest spark of belief can unlock the impossible. Most of us in the Caribbean grew up hearing the phrase: “faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains.” It’s a line that carries great comfort in knowing that what is required to unlock potential and possibility is a mustard seed sized helping of…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
If you could better understand one thing about your business right now….
Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.
I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions 