by DavidFraser | Aug 27, 2012 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
In some relationships, being demanding is (arguably) required to achieve the highest performance—for a coach with an athlete, for a leader with a team, or for a customer with a supplier. A little discomfort may be needed for the greatest achievement. Deliver the...
by DavidFraser | Aug 20, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Some prefer an adversarial approach to doing business. They think they’ll do better if they have more room to maneuver at arms length; more opportunity to a present favorable message if they withhold information; more opportunity to attack and defend. Sometimes both...
by DavidFraser | Aug 10, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Watching interviews with Gold Medal winners and other Olympic high performers, it’s striking how most of them seem thoroughly pleasant and even ordinary people – very far from the sometime stereotype of winner as warrior. In short, they are profoundly...
by DavidFraser | Jul 22, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom
Reading David Bohm’s book “On Dialogue,” which, not surprisingly, has a particularly helpful exposition of the difference between dialogue and discussion… (David Bohm was a renowned physicist of the twentieth century who also made great...
by DavidFraser | Jul 13, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We appreciate the value of knowing we can contact someone when things are difficult; knowing that that person will “be there” for us. What does it really take to do this? We might imagine it involves sharing the burden of the problem, and so shy away from the load. In...
