by DavidFraser | Jan 23, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Systems
Or do you always give an answer even if you’re not sure? One of the greatest gifts a leader can give their team (and themselves) is to show that it’s OK to say you don’t know, or at least it’s much better to say you don’t know than to pretend you do. Here’s the...
by DavidFraser | Jan 22, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We rather admire the ability of the tough negotiator; the one who secures a favorable outcome at the last minute when the other side blinks first. Perhaps that’s a component of a versatile skill set; part of the rough and tumble of public or private life,...
by DavidFraser | Jan 20, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
In fact, it probably is. We tend to dismiss new input which doesn’t fit with our view of things, simply because it doesn’t feel right. Our unconscious tells us something is “off”. “Intuitively” we know something else to be true. Or...
by DavidFraser | Jan 14, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
What would your response be then? We often feel other people have let us down in some way, or maybe they’ve let others down, or even themselves. We feel they could have done better. Maybe they could. Or maybe, actually, they couldn’t… Maybe, in fact,...
by DavidFraser | Dec 31, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
If you’re setting your goals for the coming year and beyond, you might find it helps to consider who you are going to be as well as what you are going to do, or how exactly you are going to be present to other people. At first sight, you might say, “well, of course,...
