Donella Meadows wrote that the behaviour of a system is largely shaped by its structure.

That matters because when a problem keeps returning, our instinct is often to fix the person, tighten the process, introduce another rule or try harder.

But recurrence is information.

If different people, different interventions and different circumstances keep producing the same result, the more useful question may be:

What in the system keeps producing this outcome?

Sometimes the problem is not that the solution failed.

Sometimes we have been solving at the wrong level.

Strategic Reflection Prompt

What problem in your work keeps returning, and what might its recurrence be telling you about the system producing it?

I’m Giselle Hudson, The Pre-Fixer™.

For nearly three decades, I’ve worked with business owners and leaders across the Caribbean who carry important decisions largely on their own, often when problems keep returning, solutions fall short, or implementation stalls.

When I ask business owners what problem they can’t seem to solve, the answer is usually “people.” So I ask them to tell me more, because people and businesses are rarely as simple as they first appear.

I help them understand what’s really causing the problem before they spend more trying to fix it. And where needed, I help design the solution and guide their teams to put it into practice.

Get Clarity before the Fix.

What are you trying to make sense of right now?