by DavidFraser | Mar 17, 2014 | Change, Relationship Skills
If we hope to have influence—to stimulate something better happening—we have to put ourselves out there to be judged. If we don’t, nobody will know we have anything to offer and nothing different will happen. Of course, if we put ourselves and our ideas out...
by DavidFraser | Mar 14, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
Inertia is usually better resourced than change—better staffed, better financed, and better organised. It’s usually easier to get paid to do something that reinforces the status quo than it is to do the radical work needed for an overhaul of the existing order....
by DavidFraser | Mar 7, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Systems
W. Edwards Deming said “Help must come from outside because a system is not capable of understanding itself.” In other words, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees. This is true whether we’re talking about a single person or an organisation...
by DavidFraser | Mar 5, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
If we decide, for whatever reason, to be interested in detail rather than the big picture, for example, or possibilities rather than procedures, and we find that that (unconscious) choice works for us, then we’re likely to do more of it—without really thinking,...
by DavidFraser | Feb 28, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
With sufficient power and authority, we can make something different happen. We can get an organisation to produce different results. We can make people comply. But that isn’t really change… It’s coercion. Not very sustainable, and also very hard work. Better to...
by DavidFraser | Feb 26, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
We may dismiss certain kinds of learning… Now it could be that the learning is plain wrong. Or… It could be that we don’t like the implications. One way, we’re right; the other, we’re making a mistake. Choosing not to see things systemically is a common...
