by DavidFraser | Feb 14, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
To be influential takes consistency. You have to keep at it. Once you’ve said you stand for a particular thing, you really need to act congruently with that. This point could be understood as an aspect of branding, which suggests it’s a corporate kind of...
by DavidFraser | Feb 12, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery
I don’t mean like your car… Do you need attention from other people? It’s often nice to have a little bit of attention, but does it always help you get what you want? Perhaps not… Conventional wisdom says that before you can be heard you have...
by DavidFraser | Feb 10, 2014 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills
It is considered a test of a group… Can it be together in silence? Can the people involved be in each other’s company without anything being said, or is it so uncomfortable that someone needs to fill the space and say something? If, in fact, the group can...
by DavidFraser | Feb 7, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
Have you ever tried getting a hedgehog to move? What happens if you frighten it? Sometimes out walking in the dark, I’ve come across a hedgehog on the road. It’s dangerous for a hedgehog, being on the road—a bit like an organisation in a changing world. So...
by DavidFraser | Feb 5, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery
That’s the point. If you could evidence it, then it wouldn’t be an inkling. It’d be a fact, or at least a strong hypothesis. Many organisations only want to act on facts. They ask their people to prove their inklings; to make a head-space thing out...
by DavidFraser | Feb 3, 2014 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, Systems
Have you ever tried to use just one foot when you’re meant to use two? I imagined it wouldn’t be very easy, but I decided I’d better experiment before writing this post… So I tried it today. (We leave nothing to chance in the search for the best information for...
