by DavidFraser | May 29, 2013 | Business, Influence, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Focus, focus, focus—the key to having an impact, making progress, gaining traction. But what if you don’t really know what works, or don’t know yet? If you’re doing something new, you’re very unlikely to get it right first time. If you had enough knowledge to hit the...
by DavidFraser | May 24, 2013 | Change, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Sometimes we react strongly against something someone else says. Or we see other people being surprisingly critical and dismissive of what seems pretty innocuous but useful information. The very strength of the reaction might be telling us something. We tend to push...
by DavidFraser | May 22, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s often said that someone is “quiet’, meaning that either they aren’t saying much in the moment, or don’t say much in general. At least, that’s what it appears to mean. In the first instance, the implication is that their...
by DavidFraser | May 20, 2013 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
It was an informal meeting in a hotel bar with 4 or 5 people present. I’d been asked to say a bit about this myself. This from someone I’d met only a few hours previously. Nothing very unusual about that. What was unusual was the way my short potted...
by DavidFraser | May 17, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
It’s so often the way, isn’t it? Somebody you’re in touch with really sees the change you can help them make in their business. The trouble is… The person who most needs to change is someone else in the organisation, quite probably somebody...
