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Insults Don’t Motivate
I once had a boss who thought it was OK to hurl insults at me across the room; shout out directives; curse and belittle. This was how he encouraged me. It didn’t work. There are countless stories about Joe Jackson – dad of the famous Jackson 5 – which of course included the infamous Michael…
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We Move Towards What We See in Our Mind
In the classic book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill shares a Self-Confidence Formula. This is a formula that he asks readers to memorize and repeat aloud once a day and there is good reason for this. The second paragraph of that formula goes as follows: I realize that the dominating thoughts of my mind…
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How to Be at Your Best when Life is at its Worst
Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill repeats this phrase in every book he has written. “Look for the benefit…” he suggests. “So you’ve got a problem? That’s good!” How can a problem be a good thing? You might be asking this right now. How can my present challenge…
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Does the End Justify the Means? How Far Would You Go?
Finally got around to looking at the movie “Whiplash”. I didn’t read any reviews before so I was pleasantly surprised that it was about jazz and the musicians who choose to pursue this musical genre to claim greatness. J.J.Duncan describes what the movie is about in his post ‘6 Deep Thoughts About Whiplash’: At the…
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“Carrying the Curry”
Every day about 5,000 dabbawalas, or lunch box people, deliver nearly a quarter-million home-cooked lunches around Mumbai, India…a city of seventeen million people…at a high speed and WITHOUT ERROR! What’s their secret? Their mission is simple – serve their customers accurately and on time, every time. Their value proposition – to bring a fresh, home-cooked…
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Why Do So Many Personal Change Initiatives Continue to Fail Miserably?
I recently received a thought provoking email from a client and friend of mind, containing excerpts from a book she is currently reading. “He was desperately looking for a new policy that would correct his problems. He thought if he could establish new rules, people would automatically obey. He had just returned from a management…
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“In my mind and in my soul…”
Are you familiar with the story of Mary McLeod Bethune? I first learned about her from popular motivational speaker, Les Brown. But I only recently found out some other things about her that I didn’t know in the book “The Ultimate Competitive Advantage – Why Your People Make All the Difference and the 6 Practices…
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How You Work may be Working Against You
In my column today I want to look at how we work through the lens of productivity and that of procrastination. While procrastinators are well aware that this habit is working against them, those of us who are busy all the time and seemingly productive may not see their way of working as working against…
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Small Business Success Requires an Open Mind and the Ability to Think
Thinking seems to be a lost art. Today you can get an answer to virtually any question by typing in our question into a search engine. Compare that to the age BEFORE Google where children had to use their imagination all through playtime and draw on both sides of their brains to solve problems. Playtime…
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Talent and Promise Won’t Get You Results Without This…
What makes a great performance great? Have you ever been told that you hold so much promise? That you have a lot of potential? When you hear that, how do you feel? In my own life I was tired of hearing it because nothing seemed to change as the days and subsequent years sailed by.…
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 