by DavidFraser | Oct 6, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
It’s striking how often middle level to senior people in organisations say they doubt the ordinary folk will feel safe speaking frankly about the business and what they see needs attention in front of top management. Where that sentiment exists—and it’s more the rule...
by DavidFraser | Oct 1, 2014 | Communication, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
How others see us is very important in determining our results and what happens in our lives. Many factors affect that, of course: Our track record and so on. However, a big part of it is how we see ourselves. Surprisingly perhaps… The limiting factor in what we...
by DavidFraser | Sep 26, 2014 | Change
How far do you need to go into the future before the present will seem like the past? When we’re struggling to get over some incident or upset, I find it can be a great help to think forward into the future—far enough into the future that present or very recent...
by DavidFraser | Sep 22, 2014 | Relationship Skills
To paraphrase 13th century poet, Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi… “Out beyond ideas of yes and no, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Asking a closed question always seemed to me a clumsy way of opening a conversation about something as complex as the future of a...
by DavidFraser | Sep 17, 2014 | Personal Mastery
Should we make big decisions based on what we think or what we feel? Should we let our heart rule our head or vice versa? In fact… The truest guide is what we know—what our whole body tells us—our gut, if you like, which is a different thing altogether. That...
