by DavidFraser | Jun 15, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
Broad or precise, which do you prefer? Possibly (but not necessarily) because I’m engineer, I generally regard precision (and the requisite level of detail) as an unmitigated good thing. Not everyone has the same preference of course. It is quite striking (to me, that...
by DavidFraser | Jun 10, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
A building is a building is a building, right? Or is it? What makes the difference between a physical, inert, very tangible building and a much more intangible, somehow vibrant and stimulating “space?” Some of the answer will be to do with the objects you have in the...
by DavidFraser | Jun 8, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
Are you hard to help? Or does that just apply to some of the people you work with? It’s such a waste when we make it difficult for other people to give us the help we need; when we let our pride or our ego put up barriers when others are trying to act in our...
by DavidFraser | Jun 5, 2015 | Change, Leadership
…to have such a long process. Sometimes, we get carried away with the thoroughness of the process we put in place. Yes, we need to do a diligent job, but good enough is good enough. Arguably, that’s one lesson of Apple’s success—implementing enough features but...
by DavidFraser | Jun 3, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Most of us struggle with it, at least at times—taking feedback that may be painful to receive. We might be rather better at giving it than receiving it. The thing is though… It’s such an important determinant of success and growth, hearing what we need to hear...