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Never Let Fear Take the Wheel
Fear is not always easily identified. Sometimes it arrives dressed as prudence… as professionalism… as timing. It tells you to wait a little longer, gather a little more data, soften the ask, delay the decision, stay inside the version of the plan that feels least exposing. And because it rarely introduces itself as fear, it…
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When Leaders Try to Run Living Systems Like Closed Algorithms
There is a quiet assumption that sits beneath much of modern management thinking, and it becomes most visible when pressure enters the room. Faced with urgency, complexity, or reputational risk, many leaders instinctively reach for models that promise certainty. They search for the cleanest diagnostic, the most efficient lever, the fastest sequence of actions that…
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Deconstructing Performance Theater in the Workplace
Most organizations believe they are practicing accountability. What they are often practicing is performance. Something goes wrong and the conversation begins almost immediately, but the purpose of the conversation quietly changes before anyone notices. Instead of trying to understand the sequence of decisions that produced the outcome, the group begins trying to restore certainty. Uncertainty…
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Are You Naming the RIGHT Problem?
Leaders spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to solve problems, and far less time asking whether they are solving the right ones. We gather smart people in rooms, analyze data, debate options, and emerge feeling productive because something has been clarified. Yet clarity, by itself, is a slippery comfort. It can give the impression…
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Wealth, Optionality, and the Deliciousness of “No”
The Economic Times features a quote each day. Today’s quote is from Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Lebanese-American New York Polytech Professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist; whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. There’s…
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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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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…
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you’re already ready and you’ll never be ready that’s why you should do it
Whatever that “it” is that you’ve been contemplating. We want to feel a certain degree of peace with regard to our decisions. When we decide, we want reassurance that this is best for us; that whatever it is – it’s the right thing to do. However there is never complete certainty. There is always going…
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Where will 2022 find you?
Like it or not, you are EXACTLY WHERE YOU WANT TO BE. Maybe you are unhappy. Perhaps you are in a job you’re thankful for, but silently hate. You might be out of a job now given COVID-19 and its effect on work generally. You might be working but your hours have been severely slashed.…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
High-stakes decisions deserve disciplined thinking
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 | Pre-Decision Advisory for Leaders Under Pressure 