by DavidFraser | Nov 10, 2014 | Relationship Skills
Events of last week—featuring, in particular, some troubles my son is having with another boy on his school bus—showed just how important it is to discern accurately who is best-placed to take which action: Us as parents, the bus driver, the parents of the other boy,...
by DavidFraser | Nov 5, 2014 | Personal Mastery
You may be familiar with the idea of having a vision for other people—other people you work with, individuals you lead or coach, either formally or informally, or perhaps family members. That vision is your guiding image of how they could be or who they could...
by DavidFraser | Nov 3, 2014 | Relationship Skills
We’re accustomed to making sure we don’t send mixed messages… As long as we don’t actually say anything contradictory, people around us won’t be confused and will instead move forward on the basis of what they hear us say. So the thinking goes. Unfortunately,...
by DavidFraser | Oct 31, 2014 | Business, Change, Leadership
So you successfully steered your business through the recession—a significant achievement which no doubt took a lot of courage, determination and energy, and probably involved a fair amount of pain. You learned a great deal. You established a tight grip. You had good...
by DavidFraser | Oct 29, 2014 | Personal Mastery
It can feel like we’re working very hard. We probably are working very hard. But are we working on the right things? We’re responding to all sort of external inputs and handling them well – keeping everybody happy. For the time being anyway. From the...
