by DavidFraser | Feb 28, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
With sufficient power and authority, we can make something different happen. We can get an organisation to produce different results. We can make people comply. But that isn’t really change… It’s coercion. Not very sustainable, and also very hard work. Better to...
by DavidFraser | Jan 10, 2014 | Change, Leadership
It’s worth being clear… With a group of people engaged in change, is your commitment to a process or to a specific outcome? If you feel you need to achieve a certain outcome, then fair enough, go for it to the best of your ability: Make your best case; listen...
by DavidFraser | Jan 25, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Systems
It is said that “The policy maker should act as a gardener not an architect.” In other words, the policy maker will do better to support good ideas that emerge rather than direct from on high. I connect that with experience of some organizations that assume new ideas...
by DavidFraser | Jan 22, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We rather admire the ability of the tough negotiator; the one who secures a favorable outcome at the last minute when the other side blinks first. Perhaps that’s a component of a versatile skill set; part of the rough and tumble of public or private life,...
