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The Consulting Crash We Were Warned About
In 2005, Martin Kihn cracked open a world that, until then, largely operated behind frosted-glass conference rooms and perfectly bound slide decks.His memoir, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, was part confession, part dark comedy, and part industry autopsy. Kihn wrote from the inside. As a…
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Building from Brilliance
Some communities have developed recognizable economic signatures. Jewish merchants, shaped by centuries of restrictions on land ownership, mastered literacy and finance, creating networks of trade and professional services. Indian diaspora families, carrying memories of colonial merchant roles and extended kin systems, now own large shares of global hotel and corner-shop markets. Ethnic Chinese networks, long…
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When your Gift Becomes a Cage
Scott Clary, in his Saturday Strategy Sessions newsletter, asked a powerful question: What if the thing you’re best at is the thing that’s killing you? He used the example of Josh Waitzkin — chess prodigy, national champion, International Master, and the inspiration for Searching for Bobby Fischer. By all external measures, Josh was destined for…
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The Hidden Tax of Influence and the Real Cost of Outsourcing Transformation
In a recent New York Times Magazine interview, [you can listen to the interview here], Brené Brown named something rare that and also costly. She described the “care tax”—the hidden toll of being treated as a national therapist, expected not only to share ideas but to absorb people’s deepest stories of pain and trauma. After…
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We Are Not Helpless: Sawubona and Strategic Alignment
We are not helpless. Change can still happen, but it requires responsibility-collective responsibility. – FARHIA NOOR Every so often I come across someone saying something as if they were speaking directly to me. Recently, it was a post by Farhia Noor. Rooted in her African heritage, she invoked Sawubona — “I see you, I honor…
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Can You Align Your Professional and Personal Purpose?
In an Atlantic article “The New Old Age” (by David Brooks, Aug 2023), we meet people who’ve spent decades in high-powered careers — CEOs, prosecutors, doctors — suddenly confronting a sobering truth: their professional résumés no longer define them. David Brooks, shares Anne Kenner’s story — a former federal prosecutor who walked into Stanford’s Distinguished…
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I’m Trading SMART Goal Setting for a More Dynamic Engine
Most of us have been taught that goals must be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound. It works for project management — but let’s be real: it’s flat. SMART gives you clarity, but it doesn’t give you energy. It feels very clinical with boxes to tick but no sparks to ignite. While scrolling (yes you…
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Searching for a Mustard Seed
The tiniest spark of belief can unlock the impossible. Most of us in the Caribbean grew up hearing the phrase: “faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains.” It’s a line that carries great comfort in knowing that what is required to unlock potential and possibility is a mustard seed sized helping of…
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Why do some Employees Tune Out at Work?
I came across an article in Inc. recently by Kit Eaton: “How to Fight Clock Botching, the Latest Threat to Productivity” (published August 13, 2025). Up until then, I’d never heard the phrase clock botching before. I know of clock watching. I’ve done it. You’ve done it. That’s the “please-let-this-day-end” routine where the only thing…
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 