by DavidFraser | Nov 21, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
To what extent should leaders expect to feel uncomfortable—a little of the time, a lot of the time, or somewhere in the middle? Sometimes people in leadership positions comment that such and such made them uncomfortable. Something they experienced didn’t fit...
by DavidFraser | Nov 19, 2012 | Relationship Skills, Social Media
We hear commentary that social media has a detrimental effect on ability to relate to other people—not too sure about that myself. Leaving that debate to one side, here’s another aspect… The very pervasiveness of social media, especially networks like...
by DavidFraser | Nov 16, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Wisdom
It comes as a bit of a jolt: What you thought was something which was true everywhere—that always applied—turns out to be just part of your map, a piece of your programming, in fact. It’s a healthy shock, of course, and one I’ve got more used to—enough to be more...
by DavidFraser | Nov 14, 2012 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Helping some clients visualize the next 12 months of their business (and so increase the likelihood of it happening), it’s interesting to notice that these young business people haven’t learned to be resistant to learning. Not having ever had experience of...
by DavidFraser | Nov 12, 2012 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills
Strategic coherence: Some organizations have it, others not so much. In those that do, it’s easier to get things done across functions, across the ubiquitous silos, because everyone’s already pointing in something like the same direction. Where there’s...
