by DavidFraser | Jan 25, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Systems
It is said that “The policy maker should act as a gardener not an architect.” In other words, the policy maker will do better to support good ideas that emerge rather than direct from on high. I connect that with experience of some organizations that assume new ideas...
by DavidFraser | Nov 23, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
They have something to say so they say it, whether it takes the theme forward or not. Sometimes what they say is a distraction sapping energy from the main flow of the dialogue. Eventually progress slows as momentum is lost and participants get tired. A key role of...
by DavidFraser | Nov 2, 2012 | Change, Current Affairs, Organizations
Somebody said—I can’t remember who—if you want to understand organizations, try changing them. That’s a good insight, in my opinion. Certainly it’s my experience that making changes to organizations reveals all the mechanisms by which they really work. We can go a...
by DavidFraser | Oct 31, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Sometimes coaching or consultancy clients comment on the depth of the work we are doing, the suggestion being that they find it unusual to be operating beneath the everyday. But the thing is… Unless we seek to understand our world at a fundamental, first...
by DavidFraser | Oct 12, 2012 | Change, Communication, Organizations, Wisdom
We hear it so often: “People don’t like change.” That isn’t quite right: After all, most of us would like a doubling of our income, or the gift of a free holiday with everything taken care of. We like that kind of change. Really, it’s that we don’t like feeling...
by DavidFraser | Sep 28, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
We tend to think of leadership as something we do consciously. In fact, it’s not really like that at all. After all… As ground-breaking doctor and hypno-therapist, Milton Erickson said “what you don’t realise is your life is mostly...
