by DavidFraser | Sep 19, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Scotland
He travelled 18,297 miles round the world on a bicycle and beat his target of 195 days by 8 hours. His target was in reality an arbitrary estimate based on 100 miles per day with an allowance for unforeseen difficulties. In so doing, he smashed the previous world...
by DavidFraser | Sep 17, 2012 | Inspiration, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Author and speaker Sonia Choquette give a fabulous demonstration of giving yourself permission to be yourself and do essentially anything on stage. The 700 or so people present respond wholeheartedly. In fact, the more Sonia is herself, the more the audience responds....
by DavidFraser | Sep 14, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
The notion of the “servant leader” conveys the important idea of the leader serving the people he or she leads. That’s a useful shift in perspective from the more traditional idea of leader as master and the led serving the leader. But perhaps...
by DavidFraser | Sep 7, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
We’re probably familiar with the old expression “a shadow of her former self”, implying a temporary or even permanent decline from earlier capability and presence. But perhaps the change is in the other direction. Perhaps you are now a mere shadow of what you could...
by DavidFraser | Sep 3, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
He visibly changed in front of our eyes… From a barely there, fidgeting, rather evasive character, he became a solid, three-dimensional, distinctly present person with solid eye contact and a strong voice to match. What made the difference? Thinking of a...
