by DavidFraser | Jan 14, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
What would your response be then? We often feel other people have let us down in some way, or maybe they’ve let others down, or even themselves. We feel they could have done better. Maybe they could. Or maybe, actually, they couldn’t… Maybe, in fact,...
by DavidFraser | Dec 31, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
If you’re setting your goals for the coming year and beyond, you might find it helps to consider who you are going to be as well as what you are going to do, or how exactly you are going to be present to other people. At first sight, you might say, “well, of course,...
by DavidFraser | Dec 11, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Wisdom
We’re at a gathering of professionals… Some present find some of the language challenging. It doesn’t fit with their culture. They would like some of the words to be changed. They want met at their map of the world… Make what you’re saying fit our...
by DavidFraser | Nov 23, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
They have something to say so they say it, whether it takes the theme forward or not. Sometimes what they say is a distraction sapping energy from the main flow of the dialogue. Eventually progress slows as momentum is lost and participants get tired. A key role of...
by DavidFraser | Nov 21, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
To what extent should leaders expect to feel uncomfortable—a little of the time, a lot of the time, or somewhere in the middle? Sometimes people in leadership positions comment that such and such made them uncomfortable. Something they experienced didn’t fit...
by DavidFraser | Nov 16, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Wisdom
It comes as a bit of a jolt: What you thought was something which was true everywhere—that always applied—turns out to be just part of your map, a piece of your programming, in fact. It’s a healthy shock, of course, and one I’ve got more used to—enough to be more...
