by DavidFraser | Oct 31, 2014 | Business, Change, Leadership
So you successfully steered your business through the recession—a significant achievement which no doubt took a lot of courage, determination and energy, and probably involved a fair amount of pain. You learned a great deal. You established a tight grip. You had good...
by DavidFraser | Oct 29, 2014 | Personal Mastery
It can feel like we’re working very hard. We probably are working very hard. But are we working on the right things? We’re responding to all sort of external inputs and handling them well – keeping everybody happy. For the time being anyway. From the...
by DavidFraser | Oct 27, 2014 | Relationship Skills
If it’s only when people are leaving that they can tell the truth in an organisation, then we have a problem. And yet that’s often the way it seems to be. If it’s only when there’s no longer anything at stake that people can be real, then...
by DavidFraser | Oct 24, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Sometimes it’s tempting to try and hold back the process of change—we may think we are strong enough to hold it at bay. We may even be successful for a time. The trouble is… The forces of evolution will eventually become so powerful that when we finally succumb...
by DavidFraser | Oct 20, 2014 | Collaboration, Relationship Skills
Everyone seems to want autonomy at the moment—well, perhaps not quite everybody. The trouble is… Complete autonomy means no influence. If we’re serious about collaboration, we have to share power. We have to accept we won’t get our way on everything. If we want...
