by DavidFraser | Nov 5, 2019 | Business, Change, Leadership
Up and coming managers and leaders need to see the gaps in their approach. In the old saying, what got them where they are today won’t get them where they need to be tomorrow. In fact, they might even need to unlearn some things that have seemed central to their way...
by DavidFraser | Jan 7, 2019 | Change, Leadership
…especially significant ones we care about. Last year, I allowed too much of my capacity, especially my reading capacity, to be taken up following the news—hoping for some signs of sense prevailing, especially in Britain and America, frankly. Sense in these contexts...
by DavidFraser | Jun 3, 2016 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Systems
It’s surprising what a difference it makes, thinking over our experiences and learning. You’d imagine that if we put all that stuff into our heads the process would be automatic after that—that we could rely on our brains to process everything comprehensively; to form...
by DavidFraser | Nov 30, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Scotland, Wisdom
Sir Brian Souter, highly successful co-founder of the Stagecoach bus group and always an entertaining speaker, made the front page of the Scottish broadsheet newspaper “The Herald” on Saturday with his conference comment that “too many large companies are run by...
by DavidFraser | Nov 27, 2015 | Change, Leadership
Just because you can tell someone what to do doesn’t mean you should, or that it’s the best option. In most situations, probably, you’ll be right—the one in the know, the one with the insight to see the correct course of action, the one with the relevant experience....
by DavidFraser | Oct 30, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
…not necessarily the orderliness of your systems. Order around us is generally helpful and a good thing—of course it is, but at the end of the day… What really counts is our own internal order—how organised we are in what we do and how we think and who we...
