by DavidFraser | Jan 27, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Learning, People Magic, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Joe is angry. He wants change. He cites all the things he doesn’t like about what the other guy is doing… and what he doesn’t like about the other guy, period. He wants upheaval. It’s a sustained attack. It seems overwhelming. Surely one of his points will hit...
by DavidFraser | Jan 10, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
You notice it immediately. The meeting’s hardly started before you realise it’s all going to be facts and figures; all logical and analytical—nothing from the heart at all. I can spot this behavior well because it used to be mine. It took me years since it was first...
by DavidFraser | Jan 1, 2012 | Current Affairs, Energy, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, World Affairs
Happy New Year! May it be a good one for you and confound all gloomy predictions. Often in an extreme can be found its opposite. As atomic physicist, Niels Bohr said, “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may...
by DavidFraser | Dec 13, 2011 | Current Affairs, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Systems, World Affairs
At the level of the system – how things work – it’s actually very simple: The UK is not in the Euro and should not be part of stronger arrangements to protect that currency. The necessary rigour is yet to be achieved among the Euro members but when...
by DavidFraser | Dec 8, 2011 | Change, Current Affairs, Leadership, Organizational Learning, World Affairs
In closing, the host feels it necessary to say that he does “real work” too and not all his time can be spent leading on the issue of the meeting – one of the really big challenges of our time. Doesn’t that strike you as curious? How come we...
