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Can You Learn to Think Like a Strategist?
I think most people expect the answer to be yes. Of course you can learn to think strategically. There are courses, frameworks, models, canvases, playbooks… entire industries built on the premise that strategy is a transferable skill, something you acquire the way you acquire Excel or public speaking. Learn the logic, apply the method, get…
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You Can’t Solve Spherical Problems with Flat Thinking
You can’t solve spherical problems with flat thinking…and yet, so much of leadership, decision-making, and strategy still operates as if reality will eventually cooperate if we just simplify it enough. Straight lines. Clean answers. Either/or choices. The problem is that many of the situations we’re navigating now…in organizations, in systems, in our own lives…aren’t flat…
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Routine can be a double-edged sword
On the one hand, it creates rhythm… steadiness… trust with yourself. It’s how things get done when motivation dwindles. It’s how we move forward without renegotiating every decision from scratch. Routine builds muscle memory for progress. But when routine goes unquestioned… What once supported momentum can quietly become a blindfold. You keep doing the thing…
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What Have You Got to Lose?
I got The Book of Alchemy for Christmas by Suleika Jaouad. It’s not a journal in the trendy, habit-stacking sense. It’s quieter than that. More deliberate…built around the idea of writing not as output, but as a way of staying in relationship with yourself when certainty thins out…when confidence feels unearned…when you’re standing at the…
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Are You Addicted to Work?
I’ve always been curious about addiction. The way I tend to look at most things in my life, I’ve wondered why some people get so deeply hooked… whether it’s food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, hoarding, smoking, or porn. What is it that pulls someone past moderation and into dependency? Over the years, that curiosity hasn’t been…
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He saved babies’ lives while being paid as a janitor.
Vivien Thomas aspired to become a doctor and demonstrated the intellectual capacity, discipline, and aptitude required for medical training. He saved every dollar from his carpenter job, toward medical school, certain he was building a future with his own hands. Then the stock market crashed. This was 1929 and the Great Depression that followed, didn’t…
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When Staying With the Question Matters More than the Path
Joseph Campbell was a scholar of mythology, religion, and literature, best known for articulating what later came to be called the hero’s journey — the underlying narrative pattern shared across myths, religions, and modern stories across cultures and centuries. His work went on to influence writers, filmmakers, and artists in ways most people now absorb…
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What Christmas Means for an Entrepreneur
The Christmas season arrives with a strange double signal for entrepreneurs. On the surface… it’s opportunity. Money moving fast. Peak demand. Short windows. A season where revenue can surge if you’ve positioned yourself well. Underneath that… it’s pressure. Noise. Saturation. Everyone selling at once. Everyone borrowing the same urgency, the same language, the same emotional…
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 