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Conversion of Knowledge of Acquaintance into Knowledge About Is a Risky Exercise
My WHY, according to the WHY Institute, is Make Sense. When I first encountered the WHY.os framework, I remember feeling a strange sense of recognition. The WHY Institute describes a WHY as the fundamental motivation that drives a person’s behavior, decisions, and way of seeing the world. In their model, the WHY is expressed through…
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Why “One Size Fits All” Decision Training Fails
There is value in teaching and training leaders to become more effective in areas like decision-making, communication, delegation, negotiation, strategic planning, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and execution. Organizations need these things. Teams function better when leaders can slow down enough to evaluate options, regulate reactions, ask better questions, and avoid making decisions from pure panic…
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Which is worse: ignoring symptoms or treating them as root cause
Organizational exhaustion comes from repeatedly solving problems that never fully go away. The names change. The people involved may change. The location where the strain appears may shift slightly. But underneath it all, there is often the uncomfortable feeling that the issue itself is somehow still alive, simply moving through different forms. A business misses…
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What Does it Cost to Exist in the Wrong Environment
One of the quieter tragedies in life is how long human beings can survive in environments that are fundamentally wrong for them. Just survive…and survival is deceptive because from the outside it can still look functional. The person still shows up. Still produces. Still responds to emails. Still performs competence. Still keeps the business moving.…
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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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Money is not a Cure All for Engagement or Skill
There was a time when I believed that if people were paid enough, most organizational problems would settle themselves. I never thought that money was magical, per se, but to me, compensation felt like the most obvious lever. If someone was underperforming, perhaps they were underpaid. If morale was low, perhaps the salaries were not…
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What we Think of as an Advantage or Disadvantage isn’t Always Correct
A business with more money is assumed to be in a stronger position than the one struggling to make every dollar stretch, yet sometimes the opposite becomes true over time because constraints force a level of attentiveness that abundance does not require. Meanwhile larger organizations can slowly become insulated from the consequences of poor thinking…
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Leadership behaviour is hardly ever questioned seriously
Discussed? Yes. Constantly. Employees discuss it amongst themselves. Citizens discuss it amongst themselves. Families discuss it amongst themselves after political speeches, church meetings, board meetings, management changes and community fallout. Entire organizations can quietly organize themselves around the behavioural patterns of one leader while pretending the real issue is workflow, morale, communication or “culture.” But…
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Jumping to conclusions without fully understanding the problem is one of the most expensive habits in business
The brain is wired for speed, not accuracy. Faced with uncertainty, pressure, or the need to appear decisive, it reaches for the nearest explanation and calls it a conclusion. That conclusion often feels logical, even strategic, but it is frequently built on incomplete information, unchecked assumptions, or surface-level observations. The result is a quiet but…
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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…
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 