by DavidFraser | Mar 29, 2013 | Change, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
Well, one of the troubles with profiling… In forming teams, it’s a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be comfortable at first. So we reach for the psychometric tests—how...
by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a curious thing… When we have someone with knowledge or authority in front of us, do we get them talking in order to learn as much as we can from their expertise? Or do we take more of the airtime ourselves, because we feel a greater need to explain...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2013 | Change, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We don’t laugh at the majority, because the majority has power. And we don’t laugh at power, because it’s dangerous. It might throw us out. But we do laugh at minorities, because minorities are weak. And we do laugh at weakness because it’s...
by DavidFraser | Mar 22, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Wisdom
Or you could say, “How congruent?” Let’s focus on the individual first… A congruent person is one whose behaviour is a consistent reflection of their values and beliefs, and their sense of identity. Some of these values and beliefs may be in tension with each...
by DavidFraser | Mar 20, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a conditioned reaction… Anything nebulous, intangible and “irrational” we want to fit into familiar tangible, rational and logical processes, usually in the form of paperwork or information on a screen. Then we can process the result, and we can share it...
