by DavidFraser | Apr 29, 2013 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
The conversation seems to go round in circles. Actually, it would be more accurate to say it meanders all over the place. The participants do seem to be talking about one subject though. After all, they’re using the same words. But they’re not talking about the same...
by DavidFraser | Apr 27, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
… as opposed to what you know about. It’s one thing to know about something, quite another to know a subject and be able to deploy it in life. Unless you can do (or be) something, you don’t know it, not really. There’s a world of a difference between...
by DavidFraser | Apr 24, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We see it as all or nothing with political leaders, and others too for that matter. If there’s something we dislike about them or what they’ve done, we’re inclined to dismiss everything about them. Nice and tidy, but a mistake. Because some of what everyone does is...
by DavidFraser | Apr 22, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Most of us have been brought up to seek precision; to look for clarity; the one right answer. So it seems natural to be uncomfortable with ambiguity. And yet… Sometimes ambiguity is our friend. It helps keep people together and, oddly enough, things on track. It...
by DavidFraser | Apr 19, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
There’s a problem with the team. They’re not performing as effectively as we would expect… Tempting perhaps to reach for the psychometric profiling tools to understand who’s doing what and why. But there’s a danger… The results of profiling are almost...
