by DavidFraser | Jun 30, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We’re accustomed to wanting clarity. We’d like things to be clearly in focus. We’d like a single right answer. But sometimes… The best we’re going to get is clear sight of the inherently multi-faceted nature of the situation—the different considerations we need...
by DavidFraser | Jun 23, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We all face these situations… Something difficult needs to be tackled with another person. We think they’ll be sensitive about it—either because they won’t like what we have to say or because something upsetting has happened. And so habitually we...
by DavidFraser | Jun 16, 2014 | Relationship Skills
Where do you draw the line between helping team members step up to their role and not overdoing it so that they end up depending on you? How do you decide where the right balance lies? Does it depend on the organisation? Some businesses are, by nature, very demanding...
by DavidFraser | Jun 13, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Many leaders want their organisations to be more agile, to be more responsive to change and opportunity, to be lighter on their feet. Part of that is to do with processes and systems—slimming them down probably—but as well that… Agile organisations need agile...
by DavidFraser | Jun 12, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
A reminder of something simple and perhaps basic but really important, which has certainly helped me… To succeed, yes, we need a vision and a purpose and goals and priorities and all that. But when we’re stuck; when we’re down, we sometimes can’t do any of it....