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Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions
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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.

Tag: Leadership Freak

  • We Must Seize What Flees

    Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside our many distractions and exert ourselves in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must…

    Giselle

    May 9, 2026
    🧠 Zone of Genius
    Alignment, clarify before you amplify, Daily Stoic, execution, Leadership Freak, personal leadership, Ryan Holiday, seize what flees, Seneca, Strategic Alignment Journal
  • 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…

    Giselle

    August 29, 2025
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, 🧠 Zone of Genius, Strategic Sensemaking
    Alignment, Clock botching, clock watching, Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, MCODE, misalignment, motivation, out of tune, productivity, purpose, tuning out, vision, Zone of Genius, zoning out
  • You Don’t Need to Know How to Reach the Goal—You Need to Know How to Prepare to Receive It

    I’ve followed a lot of plans in my time. And after all that planning?…🦗Crickets. It wasn’t that the tactics were bad. It’s that they weren’t mine. They weren’t born from alignment. They weren’t shaped in a space of clarity and truth. They were just borrowed roadmaps for someone else’s mountain. What I didn’t know then…

    Giselle

    April 16, 2025
    ⚙️ Sensemaking in organizations, 🔄 Client Systems, 🧠 Zone of Genius, Strategic Sensemaking
    Business MRI, Dan Rockwell, energetic integrity, inspired by Emerson, Leadership Freak, Napoleon Hill’s wisdom modernized, preparation to receive, strategic clarity, Strategic Sensemaking, vision + action
  • Don’t go it alone: trust, let go and welcome the unknown

    When the student is ready, the teacher appears and she usually walks into a class already in session. Today I was contemplating my need for certainty and where that often leads me. I think that’s why I love rituals so much. Just knowing what is going to happen tomorrow morning…what will happen first, second and…

    Giselle

    October 17, 2023
    Strategic Sensemaking
    Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak, Peter Drucker, purposeful abandonment, rituals, routines, uncertainty
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