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Does Poetry belong in the Boardroom?
More than fifteen years ago, I found myself in conversation with Libby Wagner in Seattle. Long before the corporate world began flirting with the idea that poetry might have something to offer its hardened landscapes. Yet even with all the time that has passed I can still feel the quiet recognition that we were circling…
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Does Indoctrination in School, affect how we Lead?
I’ve been thinking about how much of our leadership style — the real one, the one that shows up when we’re tired or cornered — started forming long before we ever held a job title. Long before a performance review. Long before a “vision” or a “mission” or a “strategic plan.” The shaping began in…
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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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The Invisible Obstacle and Money Flow
We make money heavier than it needs to be. Leaders talk about revenue, runway, profitability, receivables… the whole glossary of financial adulthood. Yet beneath all of that is something quieter, older, almost embarrassingly human: our relationship with giving and receiving. Somewhere along the way we made receiving the crowned jewel. We elevated the incoming. The…
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Write to Figure Out what You Think
Daniel Pink recently had a conversation with David Perell, where he talked about a college professor who stopped him mid-analysis, with regard to his writing, and said, in essence: You’re trying to “fix” this essay like an engineer rearranging parts. The real issue is simpler and more confronting. You don’t know what you think yet.Sometimes…
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Why Caribbean Leaders in Top Tier Positions Avoid Assessments
There’s a leadership conversation we keep skirting in the Caribbean.Everyone is willing to assess the organization. Assess the team. Assess the culture. Assess the managers. But the person who shapes the emotional, psychological, and strategic weather system of the entire enterprise remains… untouched. Untouched, unexamined, and often unadvised. It’s not because our leaders don’t want…
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The Space Between Knowing and Doing
In every team, every family, every country… a silence shows up…one that lives right in that narrow passage between what people say they understand and what they actually do. It’s a strange little corridor. You can’t always see it, but you can feel the drag of it. Plans begin with clarity, but the execution lags…
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The Architecture of Mastery
She was born Zaila Avant-garde in Harvey, Louisiana, the daughter of Alma Heard and Jawara Spacetime — parents who weren’t just caretakers but architects of possibility. Her father, Jawara, chose the surname Avant-garde in homage to his favorite John Coltrane album, infusing her identity with intention, exploration, and a nod to creative boldness before she…
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Own the Haystack, not the Needle
John “Jack” Bogle was never the loudest voice in finance, but he reshaped the world of investing more than almost anyone who ever touched the industry. He founded Vanguard in 1975, built the first index fund for everyday investors, and spent his entire career arguing that most of Wall Street’s noise was theatre — expensive,…
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Succession Planning is not just Skills Transfer…and should NEVER be an Afterthought
I’ve long admired Warren Buffett. He’s been a bit of a mentor to me… not in the literal sense, but in the way someone can shape how you think simply by how they move through the world. I’ve read The Snowball, that long, patient biography that traces not just Buffett’s wealth, but his temperament, his…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
When the stakes are high, DON’T MOVE without CLARITY
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to reduce unnecessary risk.
When your decision affects income, reputation, or stability,
pause with structure before you act.
Giselle Hudson | Business Diagnostic Specialist | Clarity before high-stakes decisions 