by DavidFraser | Nov 2, 2012 | Change, Current Affairs, Organizations
Somebody said—I can’t remember who—if you want to understand organizations, try changing them. That’s a good insight, in my opinion. Certainly it’s my experience that making changes to organizations reveals all the mechanisms by which they really work. We can go a...
by DavidFraser | Oct 22, 2012 | Current Affairs, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
An interesting lesson highlighted in UK politics this week… UK Government Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell finally resigned after being abusive to a policeman on security duty in Downing Street (outside the Prime Minister’s Office) several weeks ago. Exactly what was...
by DavidFraser | Apr 23, 2012 | Current Affairs, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
(Occasioned by a certain politician failing to see the funny side of the routine humor dispensed on its cover by a well-known current affairs magazine.) What do we do when someone attempts a joke at our expense? Fight back or just shrug it off? The choice we make says...
by DavidFraser | Jan 1, 2012 | Current Affairs, Energy, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, World Affairs
Happy New Year! May it be a good one for you and confound all gloomy predictions. Often in an extreme can be found its opposite. As atomic physicist, Niels Bohr said, “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may...
by DavidFraser | Dec 13, 2011 | Current Affairs, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Systems, World Affairs
At the level of the system – how things work – it’s actually very simple: The UK is not in the Euro and should not be part of stronger arrangements to protect that currency. The necessary rigour is yet to be achieved among the Euro members but when...
by DavidFraser | Dec 8, 2011 | Change, Current Affairs, Leadership, Organizational Learning, World Affairs
In closing, the host feels it necessary to say that he does “real work” too and not all his time can be spent leading on the issue of the meeting – one of the really big challenges of our time. Doesn’t that strike you as curious? How come we...
