by DavidFraser | Apr 10, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Are your perceptions of relative cost up to date? I’m struck by how often people comment on the cost of phoning transatlantic. “That’ll be really expensive they say.” Actually, landline-to-landline, with my pretty average phone contract, it costs about £3 or $5 for an...
by DavidFraser | Apr 8, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
During a workshop recently, I asked for observations on the learning exercise we’d just done. Two people spoke up almost in unison, except that what they said was very different… “It’s amazing how different people are,” said one. “It’s amazing how much we’re all...
by DavidFraser | Mar 29, 2013 | Change, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
Well, one of the troubles with profiling… In forming teams, it’s a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be comfortable at first. So we reach for the psychometric tests—how...
by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a curious thing… When we have someone with knowledge or authority in front of us, do we get them talking in order to learn as much as we can from their expertise? Or do we take more of the airtime ourselves, because we feel a greater need to explain...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2013 | Change, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We don’t laugh at the majority, because the majority has power. And we don’t laugh at power, because it’s dangerous. It might throw us out. But we do laugh at minorities, because minorities are weak. And we do laugh at weakness because it’s...
