by DavidFraser | Feb 4, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
To lead on an issue, you need to get attention somehow, and to do that you need to stand out in some way—no use, therefore, trying to blend in, at least not all the time. To take a lead you need to accept the possibility of ending up leaving “the tribe”....
by DavidFraser | Feb 1, 2013 | Change, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Systems
“Culture change program” “Public sector reform” “Get well program” We hear these phrases all the time. We might even use them ourselves. But there’s a problem… Using language like this, the hearers need to accept that what they were doing yesterday was wrong....
by DavidFraser | Jan 30, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom, World Affairs
Given the large scale challenges facing the world, it’s tempting to get on a mission of changing the whole system, thinking that’s the only way we can make progress. Trouble is… Pick any major issue you like and it’s easy to show that the system which determines...
by DavidFraser | Jan 28, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom
Do you even give yourself time to think? Culturally, in the West at least, we behave as if we’re expected to move into action quickly, and usually we are. But what if the action we take isn’t the right action? An action taken in haste is often exactly the...
by DavidFraser | Jan 25, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Systems
It is said that “The policy maker should act as a gardener not an architect.” In other words, the policy maker will do better to support good ideas that emerge rather than direct from on high. I connect that with experience of some organizations that assume new ideas...
