by DavidFraser | Oct 31, 2014 | Business, Change, Leadership
So you successfully steered your business through the recession—a significant achievement which no doubt took a lot of courage, determination and energy, and probably involved a fair amount of pain. You learned a great deal. You established a tight grip. You had good...
by DavidFraser | Oct 24, 2014 | Change, Leadership
Sometimes it’s tempting to try and hold back the process of change—we may think we are strong enough to hold it at bay. We may even be successful for a time. The trouble is… The forces of evolution will eventually become so powerful that when we finally succumb...
by DavidFraser | Oct 6, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
It’s striking how often middle level to senior people in organisations say they doubt the ordinary folk will feel safe speaking frankly about the business and what they see needs attention in front of top management. Where that sentiment exists—and it’s more the rule...
by DavidFraser | Oct 1, 2014 | Communication, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
How others see us is very important in determining our results and what happens in our lives. Many factors affect that, of course: Our track record and so on. However, a big part of it is how we see ourselves. Surprisingly perhaps… The limiting factor in what we...
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 | Sep 1, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We tend to think of leadership in the context of leading teams, at least in connection with work we do. But it isn’t necessarily so. Yes, a leader’s role is often to build the necessary relationships with and amongst the members of a formally-constituted team in order...
