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How one Restaurateur took Making a Reservation & Transformed it into a Unique Experience
I first came across Erin French in an episode of Be My Guest with Ina Garten, and what stayed with me wasn’t just the food or even the setting, but the way Ina Garten spoke about Erin’s restaurant. Almost like it existed slightly outside of the usual restaurant world, tucked into a quiet town in…
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Rethink Productivity – think managing energy instead
Using energy strategically begins with recognizing that not all hours carry the same weight, and that trying to treat them as interchangeable tends to flatten both the work and the person doing it. It becomes less about doing more within a fixed schedule and more about placing the kind of work that requires clarity, judgment,…
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How to Bridge the Gap Between Better Work and Getting Hired
The work itself is often not the issue. The difference shows up in how quickly someone on the other side can understand what you are proposing, see how it connects to what they are dealing with, and feel confident enough to move forward without needing to pause and work it out for themselves. In most…
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Why Smaller Contractors Lose Work to Larger Firms (Even When the Work Is Better)
I was sitting in a room yesterday with a group of technical leads. It was an industry event, and the conversation was around projects that kept looping. Work would be done, reviewed, then redone. Adjustments would be made, only for the direction to shift again. Not because new data had emerged, but because the decision…
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Verbal processing without structural change = stagnation
There are conversations that feel productive while they’re happening. Everyone is engaged and able to say something about what is being discussed. You leave those conversations with a sense that the work has started. You are clear on what needs to be done and you are pumped that the plan in place will work. But…
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Sense-making doesn’t begin with answers
Sense-making doesn’t begin with answers. It begins with the quiet, almost invisible machinery that turns raw events into something interpretable, something that feels solid enough to act on. By the time most decisions are made, that machinery has already done its work. What looks like a response to reality is often a response to interpretation…
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What might be getting in the way of earning consistently as a solopreneur or salesperson?
Busyness tends to emerge when income isn’t steady, and it can be convincing enough, unchecked, to pass of as progress. Time fills quickly, attention moves from one area to another, small adjustments are made, ideas are explored, and there’s a sense that something is being worked on even if the results don’t quite reflect it…
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Always Overestimate the Time it Takes to Complete a Task or Project
Chin-Ning Chu is one of my favorite authors. I first heard about her, when Dan Kennedy recommended Thick Face Black Heart as an essential read in cultivating the right mindset. The book fuses the wisdom of the East and West, and explores how ancient Asian battle strategies and cultural mindsets can be applied today to…
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Is worst-case consequence analysis actually useful in business?
The easy answer is yes, and that’s usually where most explanations stop, somewhere around resilience and preparedness and better decision-making, all of which are true in a general sense. However it’s not particularly helpful when you look at how decisions are actually being made in real time… under pressure, with incomplete information and a room…
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The Math of Impact
The Universal Law of Effection, is a core concept from MJ DeMarco’s book The Millionaire Fastlane The more lives you affect in an entity you control, in scale and/or magnitude, the richer you will become. Most people are taught to think about money in terms of effort, credentials, position, or even luck, as though income is mainly…
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 