by DavidFraser | Oct 24, 2011 | Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Organizations, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
One inevitably leads to the other, or should… Mark is fighting his corner well. Back and forth goes the debate. Mark concedes little. He comes away with most of what he wants. All are tired out and the other side have doubts about engaging with him again. Even...
by DavidFraser | Oct 17, 2011 | Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, World Affairs
How do we benefit from playing or watching competitive sport? Clearly there are health and fitness benefits from active participation, but what about the social benefits of a game? The behavior of some of the followers of some sports might seem to preclude any social...
by DavidFraser | Oct 12, 2011 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” as Robert Burns implored. Well that Power did give us the gift. The question is whether we choose to use it. The gift can be expressed in various ways: Carl Jung talked about “projection” meaning we...
by DavidFraser | Oct 3, 2011 | Current Affairs, Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, World Affairs
As do we all. Did you hear the surprise? If the world wide web could gasp, you would have heard it from mid-ocean. A city trader said candidly that he hoped for another recession because he could make a lot of money from one. Various commentators then rather missed...