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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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How Many Careers only Make Sense in Reverse?
For a long time, I genuinely thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the way my career unfolded. Not publicly, because outwardly I could explain each move well enough, but privately there was always this lingering sense that everyone else seemed to be building toward something while I appeared to be wandering through unrelated worlds…
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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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The Path of Least Resistance still Trumps any other Path to Success…
The interesting thing about “the path of least resistance” is that most people interpret it as escape velocity from effort itself. So the modern success economy becomes filled with cheat codes, shortcuts, bending rules, algorithm hacks, visibility tricks, overnight formulas, AI-generated personas, copied strategies, borrowed aesthetics, and endless shiny objects marketed as “smart.” The promise…
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Stop Looking for Perfection in your Leaders
There’s a video clip making the rounds in Trinidad and Tobago of a Government Minister, ranting. He wasn’t venting. He was just vomiting out everything he actually thought about specific people and named races. It was difficult to listen to but after I was literally shaking my head, as if I didn’t want the words…
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Embrace Uncertainty as a Source of Innovation, Adaptability & Competitive Advantage
Embracing uncertainty is critical to your success, especially in this volatile, rapidly evolving business landscape. However uncertainty goes against the grain of us humans, who want to control our environment. Margie Warrell PhD, tells us that embracing uncertainty is critical to our success. In a Forbes article, written almost a decade ago she shares: We…
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The Discipline of Doing One Thing… and Why Most Leaders Can’t
Doing one thing at a time is the answer. It feels clean. Grounded. Almost corrective in a world that has normalized speed, volume, and constant motion as markers of effectiveness. The philosophy of ichigyo-zanmai captures this beautifully… the invitation to bring full attention to a single act, to be fully where you are, to complete…
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Ambition and Achievement are not the Same Thing
Ambition and achievement are often spoken about as though they naturally belong together, but they are not the same thing. Ambition is desire. It is the internal pull toward something bigger, better, further, more meaningful, more impactful, more expansive. Achievement is evidence. It is what can be pointed to after the fact. One lives in…
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We Don’t Get More than We Expect; We Get What We Believe
In business, this shows up long before anything is executed. By the time a strategy is written down or a plan is shared with a team, there has already been a quiet decision about what is likely to work, what is worth the effort, and what probably won’t move. That decision is not always conscious,…
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Yesterday is not Ours to Recover
You’ll never get to live what has been lived again This is a powerful philosophical reminder about the irreversibility of time and the preciousness of the present moment. Gone. Life does not duplicate itself. It moves. And what has been lived does not circle back so we can do it again with better timing, better language, better awareness,…
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 