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...
by DavidFraser | Apr 25, 2014 | Change, Leadership
How much knowledge do you need to have before it feels OK to say you don’t know? Seems like a paradox, doesn’t it? If we know quite a bit about something, we probably have a good idea just how much we don’t know. And we have some authority. If we don’t know that much,...
by DavidFraser | Apr 23, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
It’s a strategy for corporate or organisational survival… “Getting the issue off my desk” (and onto someone else’s). I think we all do this, one way or another—in our personal lives too. It’s one way of coping with the volume of communication we have to deal...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2014 | Change, Leadership
In the dictionary it does, of course. And perhaps in real life too. Certainly the two things are closely tied up with each other. Is the need for leadership prompted by external change, or should we initiate internal change before the external world forces it upon us?...
by DavidFraser | Apr 9, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
…em, quite hard. That’s my experience anyway. Doesn’t mean it isn’t the right principle though, just that it isn’t that easy to achieve, especially if our vision isn’t very clear. I remember… The amazing effect of putting some...
by DavidFraser | Apr 7, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
In a world obsessed with “evidence,” what’s the place for what we call “gut feel”—that inner signal which seems to let us know whether something—or someone—is right or wrong? Many of us have been brought up to present a rational argument,...
