by DavidFraser | Feb 27, 2017 | Leadership, Wisdom
Flexibility is a good thing. However… Sometimes—and about some things—we need to be inflexible: We need to have boundaries. We need to decide what we are going to accept and what we are not going to accept. Actually, we probably already know, deep down (we can...
by DavidFraser | Feb 20, 2017 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Learning something isn’t the same as accepting it, necessarily. We don’t have to commit to agreeing with something before, or even as, we learn it. And often we can’t evaluate some new piece of knowledge or a new skill properly until we have thoroughly...
by DavidFraser | Feb 13, 2017 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Like it or not, we find it hard to engage with dry, factual, objective communication. We need the information, of course, but nevertheless we find a “thesis” hard to access and to assimilate. Instead, even though we know we maybe shouldn’t, we find it easier to...
by DavidFraser | Feb 6, 2017 | Relationship Skills
The phrase “critical friend” is sometimes used to describe the role of a trusted adviser and, in particular, one who is prepared to tell you something you might not really want to hear—but do need to hear. The role is reasonably widely understood, but that doesn’t...
