by DavidFraser | Mar 20, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Systems
The short answer is ego. Organisations, teams, and individuals (including ourselves) have a habit of claiming to operate according to a set of theories that apply to our work. With the best of intentions, we set out to do our business based on a set of assumptions we...
by DavidFraser | Mar 18, 2015 | Personal Mastery
One thing writing teaches you is, when you get going, keep going. When you’ve overcome your own inertia, keep that boulder moving. Lots of other things are like that too. But what about planning and prioritising? Don’t we need to stop and assess our...
by DavidFraser | Mar 16, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
We don’t challenge what we say ourselves. (Not unless we’re like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings anyway.) OK, we might be conflicted about some subject of concern to us, and have some inner tension around that, but on the whole, we don’t reject the...
by DavidFraser | Mar 13, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
In owning and operating something complex, like a house, for instance, it’s easy to let small flaws grow into big ones. If we don’t deal with minor issues in a relentless way, eventually the whole entity is degraded. It’s like that with a business or...
by DavidFraser | Mar 11, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it seems that other people have special talents—talents we can’t match. There may be some truth in that in some cases. More often… The difference is just that they’ve developed tremendous clarity in what they are about. And because...
