by DavidFraser | May 8, 2013 | Change, Personal Mastery, Systems
In our enthusiasm for an insight or an aspect of a situation that makes a critical difference, we’re inclined to think that’s the one thing that matters in the end. Of course, it isn’t. We say “It’s all about the…”...
by DavidFraser | May 4, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Systems
If you’re on the inside, it can be hard to stimulate change in the wider system because although you have some explicit authority, you’re constrained by your stakeholders’ expectations. We can’t really look to you to show the way on a wider...
by DavidFraser | Apr 27, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
… as opposed to what you know about. It’s one thing to know about something, quite another to know a subject and be able to deploy it in life. Unless you can do (or be) something, you don’t know it, not really. There’s a world of a difference between...
by DavidFraser | Apr 15, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it’s obvious… We notice when our friends and associates are holding back from committing to something—or maybe someone—which in itself is preventing them achieving the results they want. We might encourage them to “go for it” or to...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
It’s striking how some organizations think first of the scale required to roll something new out to the workforce at large—a daunting and expensive undertaking. And yet often the same effect can be achieved with the leadership group attending thoroughly to their own...
by DavidFraser | Mar 29, 2013 | Change, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
Well, one of the troubles with profiling… In forming teams, it’s a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be comfortable at first. So we reach for the psychometric tests—how...
