by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
We tend to think that big change requires brute force and large, broad strokes. Maybe not… Sometimes, the bigger the change required, the more delicate the approach needs to be—the more finely attuned is the effort that will succeed. It’s a bit like...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2015 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
Is this true? Watching my early teenage years children struggle at times to focus on their homework in the face of diverse and increasing electronic distractions, I wonder whether their generation is growing up in the most distracting environment there has ever been....
by DavidFraser | Mar 23, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
How is it that it makes such a difference if we make sure people feel included? I understand the explanation to be a deep-seated part of our nature—the need to belong to a group to survive—literally. In earlier times, if we became separated from the group, we would be...
by DavidFraser | Mar 20, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Systems
The short answer is ego. Organisations, teams, and individuals (including ourselves) have a habit of claiming to operate according to a set of theories that apply to our work. With the best of intentions, we set out to do our business based on a set of assumptions we...
by DavidFraser | Mar 16, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
We don’t challenge what we say ourselves. (Not unless we’re like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings anyway.) OK, we might be conflicted about some subject of concern to us, and have some inner tension around that, but on the whole, we don’t reject the...
by DavidFraser | Mar 13, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
In owning and operating something complex, like a house, for instance, it’s easy to let small flaws grow into big ones. If we don’t deal with minor issues in a relentless way, eventually the whole entity is degraded. It’s like that with a business or...
