by DavidFraser | Aug 29, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
One philosophy of change in organisations starts from an assumption that structures, processes and systems are largely fixed at the outset—frozen, if you like. The approach then is to unfreeze the existing set-up, change it as required, developing whatever new...
by DavidFraser | Aug 27, 2014 | Personal Mastery
I’m struck recently by the immense power and importance of a very simple idea… If you have a mountain to climb, all you really have to do is keep putting one foot in front of the other. I’ve enough experience of climbing real mountains to know that actually it...
by DavidFraser | Aug 25, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We tend to think of leadership in the context of leading teams, at least in connection with work we do. But it isn’t necessarily so. Yes, a leader’s role is often to build the necessary relationships with and amongst the members of a formally-constituted team in order...
by DavidFraser | Aug 22, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Sometimes it’s striking just how disorganised a group of people, supposedly working together, can be. How do they do that? It’s actually quite hard to be highly disorganised and randomly chaotic without settling into some kind of pattern, even with several people...
by DavidFraser | Aug 18, 2014 | Change, Relationship Skills
It’s interesting how a two-week break from something is enough to change our habitual behaviour… Returning from holiday, I notice I’m not as self-disciplined about choosing a healthy and energy-sustaining lunch as I was a few short weeks ago. My inner being has...
