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What Apollo 13 Understood about Leadership Under Pressure
“Houston, we have a problem” has survived all these years partly because of the way it was delivered. The sentence itself carried no drama. There was no attempt to inflate the moment emotionally even though an oxygen tank had exploded in space and three men were suddenly inside a situation that could very realistically kill…
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Don’t Volunteer yourself into Future Anxiety
In other words, don’t emotionally solve problems you think may occur in the future. We have all done this at one time or another. Something happens. We anticipate the problem. We immediately start solving. A problem becomes a prediction. What makes this difficult is that entrepreneurship does require anticipation. You cannot operate responsibly without thinking…
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A technically successful intervention can still create strain elsewhere.
I had a dental appointment today. Regular procedure – a filling. The filling itself did not take very long. What took time was everything that came after. The repeated checking. The tiny adjustments. The recalibration of pressure. Bite down. Slide your jaw. How does that feel? Again. Again. Again. What my dentist was doing then…
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Navigating the Flatline — Business Audits for the Modern Era
I am huge fan of the TV series FROM. I usually don’t watch horror, but I guess for me, it’s the combination with mystery and science fiction that makes it appealing. A group of strangers become trapped in a mysterious town they can’t leave. By day, they try to build some version of normal life.…
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What’s the Significance of a Birthday?
Today is my birthday. I generally don’t make a big deal about my birthday. I usually don’t make elaborate plans, I have no must-do’s on my list. I wake up into the day and live. Today is not necessarily different to what I’ve just described, except for two gifts I received from The Daily Stoic…
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Drop the dead weight; unburden your business
Joel Osteen speaks about baggage in the context of past hurts, offenses, regrets, the quiet accumulation of things that sit in the background and shape how you show up. He encourages his congregation to travel light. This does not mean dismissing or acknowledging that bad stuff happened , but becoming aware that carrying it forward…
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Rethink Productivity – think managing energy instead
Using energy strategically begins with recognizing that not all hours carry the same weight, and that trying to treat them as interchangeable tends to flatten both the work and the person doing it. It becomes less about doing more within a fixed schedule and more about placing the kind of work that requires clarity, judgment,…
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Sense-making doesn’t begin with answers
Sense-making doesn’t begin with answers. It begins with the quiet, almost invisible machinery that turns raw events into something interpretable, something that feels solid enough to act on. By the time most decisions are made, that machinery has already done its work. What looks like a response to reality is often a response to interpretation…
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 