by DavidFraser | May 24, 2012 | Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery
“If you are not seeing things properly, you have no hope of any sort of breakthrough,” so wrote Joshua Cooper Ramo in his thought-provoking book “The Age of the Unthinkable”, quoting the Buddhist principle of Right vision: Right intention: Right action (in that...
by DavidFraser | May 2, 2012 | Leadership, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
The meeting starts in the late afternoon—to prepare for the big one the following day. The purpose is to “spin” the numbers to get the outcome we want in the meeting tomorrow; to construct an argument based on the data to influence the other side; to get them to agree...
by DavidFraser | Mar 1, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
In a word, “no,” not in my map, anyway. It’s tempting to think personal mastery means complete command of a subject or indeed oneself. But that’s an ideal rather than a reality, even for the most accomplished. Rather, mastery means an acceptance of responsibility to...