by DavidFraser | Apr 29, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Start really, really small. Sometimes, it’s difficult to get moving. For whatever reason, we’ve become stationary. Perhaps we’ve been away and everything has ground to a halt in the interim. The scale of what we need to accomplish—what we need to get...
by DavidFraser | Apr 27, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We so often find it frustrating when people don’t do what we think they need to do, especially in their dealings with other people. Often it seems pretty obvious what that needed action is, perhaps even to them. And yet it doesn’t happen. Maybe even...
by DavidFraser | Apr 24, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
It’s the modern management obsession: “governance” and, to a degree, quite rightly so. We do need our organisations and our projects to be well-managed. The trouble is… Governance on its own isn’t enough to prepare an organisation for the...
by DavidFraser | Apr 22, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
What really is a priority? It so often seems urgent things are the priority and sometimes they undoubtedly are. The trouble is if we keep doing the urgent at the expense of what will make a long-term difference, we gradually become more and more sub-optimised and less...
by DavidFraser | Apr 13, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We know we need feedback: We need other people to let us know how we are doing; to challenge our ideas; and to shake our assumptions (especially if they are out of date). That doesn’t mean we necessarily enjoy the process, of course. Often it’s distinctly...
