Joe Hudson
Joe Hudson is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of Art of Accomplishment, a transformational coaching program that has helped tens of thousands of people, including many tech executives and founders from companies like Apple, OpenAI, and Google. His unique method of transformation comes from over 25 years of exploring neurological, psychological, and spiritual traditions, tested against real-world challenges.
Communication Skills
Meetings are the fundamental unit of organizational culture; making them enjoyable is a primary lever for increasing efficiency and identifying hidden problems.
"One of the things I like to say about how to change a company is that the atomic structure of a company is the meetings and the decisions. ... One of the things we do is we talk about what we call fiv..."
Hiring & Teams Skills
True expertise and ownership are revealed by drilling deep into the technical and process-oriented 'how' of a candidate's past achievements.
"One of the things that Elon Musk has said that I found it very valuable in my time, is that if you really want to interview somebody and they claim that they've done something, you ask them six levels..."
Team sentiment and culture are leading indicators of financial and operational performance.
"We used to do these tiny pulses. As a VC, one of the strategies that was really effective that I saw very few VCs doing was I would want these pulse, I would like to read the pulse of teams with these..."
Leadership Skills
Avoiding the internal discomfort of conflict actually causes more tension and unresolved issues to accumulate in an organization.
"Since I'm coach executives, let's do an executive example, so conflict avoidant executive. I don't want to feel the out of control in this that I do when people argue. I don't want to feel that level..."
Decisions are fundamentally emotional; logic is merely a tool used to predict future emotional states.
"What it tells us, and this is not exact, I'm paraphrasing for a podcast, but we make decisions in the emotional center of our brain. We use logic to try to figure out how we're going to feel. ... Ther..."
Living by a small set of core principles automates effective decision-making and ensures consistency even during difficult times.
"The other one that I find really, really useful and very hard to execute on until you really understand it is creating a set of principles to live by. ... if you really take a look at what it is you'r..."