by DavidFraser | Nov 12, 2012 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills
Strategic coherence: Some organizations have it, others not so much. In those that do, it’s easier to get things done across functions, across the ubiquitous silos, because everyone’s already pointing in something like the same direction. Where there’s...
by DavidFraser | Nov 9, 2012 | Collaboration, Leadership, Organizations, Wisdom
Is everyone playing the same piece? Are they even in the same hall? Assuming, yes, then how unified is the performance? Ok, the comparison is not entirely valid, because an organization needs to evolve, so some players need to be trying out new things, and new...
by DavidFraser | Oct 24, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Helping a client work through an issue, it occurs to me, not the first time, that I could do with answering some of my questions myself. Nothing very earth-shattering there. What is new for me is realising that a way to help ourselves get our thinking straight is to...
by DavidFraser | Oct 19, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
Read the literature on organizational learning and you’ll find convincing descriptions of how fear or embarrassment impedes learning by individuals and teams. When something doesn’t turn out as expected, it’s a very human reaction to seek to cover up the failing—to...
by DavidFraser | Oct 17, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
We might worry that operating in a principled and compassionate way makes us vulnerable—vulnerable to those who are happy to trample others in their quest for success; individuals who don’t care what happens to the people they encounter along the way. My experience is...
by DavidFraser | Sep 28, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
We tend to think of leadership as something we do consciously. In fact, it’s not really like that at all. After all… As ground-breaking doctor and hypno-therapist, Milton Erickson said “what you don’t realise is your life is mostly...
