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So You Want to Start a Business…
Freedom is the one word that motivates many to at least day dream about starting their own business. Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, according to Gallup’s recent 142-country study on the State of the Global Workplace. In other words, about one in eight workers – roughly 180 million employees in the…
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NEVER Compromise Your Principles with “Just this Once…”
Last year a client shared an incident: an employee who had been working at that company for 15 years was found at the centre of a scam which involved inflating the amount of hours spent working so that each person who participated in this scheme would receive more overtime dollars. This employee who up until the…
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If You Don’t Keep Focusing on This, You Won’t Get Results
Clayton Christensen, a man wearing many hats including professor, author, entrepreneur, missionary, husband, and father made this very bold statement in his essay “How Will You Measure Your Life?” If you study the root causes of business disasters , over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at…
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Waiting on Blue Sky
Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk, photographer and author was asked how he dealt with jet lag by author Pico Iyer. For me a flight is just a brief retreat in the sky. There’s nothing I can do, so it’s really quite liberating. There’s nowhere else I can be. So I just sit and watch the clouds…
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When Fear Dissolved in the Midst of Turbulence
I would never say that I’m afraid of flying but I don’t like turbulence. Who does? As I sat in the airport this morning, awaiting the arrival of my flight, rain started to fall. By the time I ascended the plane stairs, the winds were blowing fiercely. I heard the flight attendant say something like…
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Developing a Model that Works for You
It’s Carnival time again here in Trinidad and Tobag!. Lot’s of liming, plenty feteing, eating and drinking – at least for those of us on the receiving end of the music and the food! 🙂 For the artists, performers and musicians it’s a narrow window within which they need to make the most money that…
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Living on Purpose
This morning I woke up to the news of Marcia Henville’s untimely death. I didn’t know Marcia personally yet I felt as if I knew her. She influenced so many in a positive way. She spoke her mind, was true to her cause and didn’t seem to give a damn about what others thought about…
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What Motivates You?
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Growing up my mom made bread. I loved the bread. I didn’t like the crust. I saw my friends bring their sandwiches to school crust-less. Not in my home. You HAD to eat the crust. So I devised a method of eating the crust first…all the way around…
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 