by DavidFraser | Mar 19, 2014 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
…it’s a question of whether you need the knowledge. Sometimes we base our choice of what to learn about by what interests us, but actually to succeed in our goals, we need to learn about what’s necessary, even if it isn’t very interesting. Many...
by DavidFraser | Mar 17, 2014 | Change, Relationship Skills
If we hope to have influence—to stimulate something better happening—we have to put ourselves out there to be judged. If we don’t, nobody will know we have anything to offer and nothing different will happen. Of course, if we put ourselves and our ideas out...
by DavidFraser | Mar 14, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
Inertia is usually better resourced than change—better staffed, better financed, and better organised. It’s usually easier to get paid to do something that reinforces the status quo than it is to do the radical work needed for an overhaul of the existing order....
by DavidFraser | Mar 12, 2014 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Mastery
…it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of other people. It was a week of Winston Churchill quotes last week, though not, in fact, this one: “In making plans for war, it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of the...
by DavidFraser | Mar 10, 2014 | Relationship Skills
It seems our fellow workshop participant thinks what she has to say is more important than the organised speaker’s material. It’s a smallish group admittedly, but the rest of us are there principally to hear what the workshop leader has to offer. Some...
