by DavidFraser | Nov 28, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
When it comes to stimulating change in other people, how challenging can we be? How far and fast can we push? How can we best tell when we need to back off? Well, of course, it depends… It depends on the nature and quality of our relationship: Is it a...
by DavidFraser | Nov 21, 2014 | Change, Leadership
How do you tell the difference between the troublemaker and the necessary pest? The thing is… We don’t have all the answers. We need other people to tell us when we’ve over-looked something, or need to take a different perspective. Of course, we tend to get this...
by DavidFraser | Nov 14, 2014 | Change, Leadership
It takes a certain intensity to make something different happen. Merely exposing people to new ideas probably isn’t going to be enough if the hoped-for change is in any way an uncomfortable or unfamiliar one—the issue could be out of conscious awareness apart from...
by DavidFraser | Oct 31, 2014 | Business, Change, Leadership
So you successfully steered your business through the recession—a significant achievement which no doubt took a lot of courage, determination and energy, and probably involved a fair amount of pain. You learned a great deal. You established a tight grip. You had good...
by DavidFraser | Oct 24, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Sometimes it’s tempting to try and hold back the process of change—we may think we are strong enough to hold it at bay. We may even be successful for a time. The trouble is… The forces of evolution will eventually become so powerful that when we finally succumb...
by DavidFraser | Sep 26, 2014 | Change
How far do you need to go into the future before the present will seem like the past? When we’re struggling to get over some incident or upset, I find it can be a great help to think forward into the future—far enough into the future that present or very recent...
