by DavidFraser | Sep 15, 2014 | Change, Influence, Relationship Skills
If Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness can become best buddies, surely just about anyone can be reconciled… It seems to me Ian Paisley is an interesting example of how changing yourself changes the system—the world around you—especially if you are known to a lot...
by DavidFraser | Sep 12, 2014 | Change, Leadership
When we set out to work on an issue on a large scale, it would be handy if we could discern the specific impact of our actions. It would be useful it we could determine how much of what we see changing around us is caused by what we ourselves are doing? That way we...
by DavidFraser | Aug 29, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
One philosophy of change in organisations starts from an assumption that structures, processes and systems are largely fixed at the outset—frozen, if you like. The approach then is to unfreeze the existing set-up, change it as required, developing whatever new...
by DavidFraser | Aug 22, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Sometimes it’s striking just how disorganised a group of people, supposedly working together, can be. How do they do that? It’s actually quite hard to be highly disorganised and randomly chaotic without settling into some kind of pattern, even with several people...
by DavidFraser | Aug 18, 2014 | Change, Relationship Skills
It’s interesting how a two-week break from something is enough to change our habitual behaviour… Returning from holiday, I notice I’m not as self-disciplined about choosing a healthy and energy-sustaining lunch as I was a few short weeks ago. My inner being has...
by DavidFraser | Jul 28, 2014 | Change, Influence, Relationship Skills
Quite often it’s appropriate, necessary even, to use whatever positional authority we have to get something done. Indeed we probably have a duty to do so. But perhaps there is a cost… Could be we use up some of the goodwill in the relationship and so our...
