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...
by DavidFraser | Nov 14, 2012 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Helping some clients visualize the next 12 months of their business (and so increase the likelihood of it happening), it’s interesting to notice that these young business people haven’t learned to be resistant to learning. Not having ever had experience of...
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 | Jun 13, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
Take a computer program: Essentially every single byte (or character in the source code) has to be right for the software to function correctly. Or think of a product development project: Pretty much all the pieces have to be correctly executed before the new product...
