by DavidFraser | Apr 1, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Ok, we probably need to stop before getting on to the gold plating, but how thorough do we really need to be, in practice? Perfectionism probably isn’t the ideal trait, in most situations. We need cost-effectiveness too. There’s a difference between...
by DavidFraser | Mar 30, 2015 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
We perhaps tend to think of “brand” from the purely business point of view of supporting a premium price for a product or attracting customers. But the concept is also very relevant to relationships at the individual level. If we have a favourable personal...
by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
We tend to think that big change requires brute force and large, broad strokes. Maybe not… Sometimes, the bigger the change required, the more delicate the approach needs to be—the more finely attuned is the effort that will succeed. It’s a bit like...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2015 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
Is this true? Watching my early teenage years children struggle at times to focus on their homework in the face of diverse and increasing electronic distractions, I wonder whether their generation is growing up in the most distracting environment there has ever been....
by DavidFraser | Mar 23, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
How is it that it makes such a difference if we make sure people feel included? I understand the explanation to be a deep-seated part of our nature—the need to belong to a group to survive—literally. In earlier times, if we became separated from the group, we would be...
