by DavidFraser | Sep 14, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
…may be scarcer than the ability to generate the ideas themselves. It’s conventional to think that the ability to generate novel, practical ideas is rare. That may well be true. In fact though… The ability to get novel, practical ideas taken up and...
by DavidFraser | Jun 5, 2015 | Change, Leadership
…to have such a long process. Sometimes, we get carried away with the thoroughness of the process we put in place. Yes, we need to do a diligent job, but good enough is good enough. Arguably, that’s one lesson of Apple’s success—implementing enough features but...
by DavidFraser | May 1, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
We need to get people’s attention from time to time… We may well need them to accommodate what we need done, or what they need to do to give effect to what we’re offering them. If we expect them to drop everything though, it probably isn’t going to happen. I’ve...
by DavidFraser | Apr 24, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
It’s the modern management obsession: “governance” and, to a degree, quite rightly so. We do need our organisations and our projects to be well-managed. The trouble is… Governance on its own isn’t enough to prepare an organisation for the...
by DavidFraser | Apr 3, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
Unlike management, which doesn’t really spread from person to person, leadership is contagious. If one person is an effective and energetic leader, those around them are likely to pick up some of the traits too. Management authority has to be arranged and people...
by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
We tend to think that big change requires brute force and large, broad strokes. Maybe not… Sometimes, the bigger the change required, the more delicate the approach needs to be—the more finely attuned is the effort that will succeed. It’s a bit like...
