by DavidFraser | Nov 5, 2019 | Business, Change, Leadership
Up and coming managers and leaders need to see the gaps in their approach. In the old saying, what got them where they are today won’t get them where they need to be tomorrow. In fact, they might even need to unlearn some things that have seemed central to their way...
by DavidFraser | Jan 7, 2019 | Change, Leadership
…especially significant ones we care about. Last year, I allowed too much of my capacity, especially my reading capacity, to be taken up following the news—hoping for some signs of sense prevailing, especially in Britain and America, frankly. Sense in these contexts...
by DavidFraser | Nov 13, 2017 | Leadership
We all like a bit of freedom—the chance to act on our own initiative. Much of the time that’s a good thing. Recently, however, I’ve been noticing just how much energy can be wasted if everyone is pulling in different directions in an organisation, even if they’re...
by DavidFraser | Aug 21, 2017 | Business, Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
We need to keep learning e.g. about people; and we need to keep doing or delivering e.g. in a business. So which is more important? Delivering perhaps (it’s certainly likely to be more urgent), but what if the delivery is weak because we haven’t yet learned some...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2017 | Leadership, Marketing, Relationship Skills, Sales
Or is it just natural human reticence that most of us could do with overcoming (though some were never troubled in this way)? For many, we need to work at putting ourselves out there to be judged. It’s uncomfortable, or seems so at first. But arguably it’s...
