by DavidFraser | Jul 25, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Running events with large groups of people, attention to detail counts: Getting the room right, making sure the sound system is set up properly (often overlooked by venue owners), people’s individual needs are properly catered for, and a whole host of other...
by DavidFraser | Jun 13, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Many leaders want their organisations to be more agile, to be more responsive to change and opportunity, to be lighter on their feet. Part of that is to do with processes and systems—slimming them down probably—but as well that… Agile organisations need agile...
by DavidFraser | May 30, 2014 | Change, Innovation
Thought-provoking experience recently… Organisation declines to do something new because success is not guaranteed—yes, guaranteed. To be fair… If you set-up a service to deliver or support innovation and growth, then how do you get paid if the innovation...
by DavidFraser | May 23, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
Which is the best way of running organisations? Answer: Neither. We need both, if we want the best results and an engaged team. Top-down for direction and accountability, bottom-up for energy and resilience and adaptability. We need to keep the two in equilibrium, and...
by DavidFraser | May 20, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
You might be. Or you might be pushing away the very people you hope to attract. You see… It’s all very well setting an intention about what or who we want—and we do need to do that—but we also need to shed those pieces of ourselves that aren’t consistent with...
by DavidFraser | May 2, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Development
In program and project management, people talk about “straightening out the program,” meaning to set it on an orderly basis, with dependencies between one task and another, and resource availability in the face of constraints, properly recognised. Without that...
