by DavidFraser | Nov 20, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
It’s tempting to try and reconcile things. It resolves that cognitive dissonance that so bothers us. We prefer to eliminate tension, and so we should when we can. It’s good to reduce differences or apparent differences. But sometimes… The division is...
by DavidFraser | Nov 15, 2013 | Change, Leadership
You’d imagine that a big difference between the status quo and a desired alternative, the faster change would be. That might be true in a crisis. Might be. The rest of the time it probably isn’t. Strangely perhaps, a small gap between where somebody is at...
by DavidFraser | Nov 13, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
“Be yourself.” We’re familiar with that advice, and it’s good advice. That way we come across as authentic and “real” to other people, which they like, for the most part. But there’s something we miss, and it makes all the...
by DavidFraser | Nov 12, 2013 | Leadership, Organizational Learning, Relationship Skills
We all have assumptions—beliefs about the world. We hold them pretty tight usually. We act in accordance with these beliefs, often rather unaware we’re doing so. Indeed, they tend to become part of who we are. The result is our sense of identity gets tied up with our...
by DavidFraser | Nov 3, 2013 | Learning, Relationship Skills
We all have them—those people in our lives we struggle to deal with effectively. And if we find a solution with one, we can be pretty sure there’ll be another along in a minute. It’s tempting to deal with these “difficult” people, or at least the ones we experience as...
