by DavidFraser | Apr 22, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Most of us have been brought up to seek precision; to look for clarity; the one right answer. So it seems natural to be uncomfortable with ambiguity. And yet… Sometimes ambiguity is our friend. It helps keep people together and, oddly enough, things on track. It...
by DavidFraser | Apr 19, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
There’s a problem with the team. They’re not performing as effectively as we would expect… Tempting perhaps to reach for the psychometric profiling tools to understand who’s doing what and why. But there’s a danger… The results of profiling are almost...
by DavidFraser | Apr 17, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Systems
Can we ever be completely holistic? Or can we only hope to be more holistic than we were yesterday? Is that even a good idea? It’s generally a worthy goal, striving to ensure our actions are matched to as whole and balanced a view as possible. More chance then of our...
by DavidFraser | Apr 15, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it’s obvious… We notice when our friends and associates are holding back from committing to something—or maybe someone—which in itself is preventing them achieving the results they want. We might encourage them to “go for it” or to...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
It’s striking how some organizations think first of the scale required to roll something new out to the workforce at large—a daunting and expensive undertaking. And yet often the same effect can be achieved with the leadership group attending thoroughly to their own...
