by DavidFraser | Jun 9, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
…everything else doesn’t matter. We know the benefit of clarity well enough: Getting clear about what matters in a relationship of any kind, or any other context, means we can focus our energies in the most effective way. Once we’ve decided what’s most...
by DavidFraser | Jun 3, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
An organisation wonders if it has a particular problem with stress—more than is typical… I ask whether the employees believe management cares about them, really wondering to what degree that is true. The response “Oh no, we wouldn’t want that” was so striking to...
by DavidFraser | May 29, 2013 | Business, Influence, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Focus, focus, focus—the key to having an impact, making progress, gaining traction. But what if you don’t really know what works, or don’t know yet? If you’re doing something new, you’re very unlikely to get it right first time. If you had enough knowledge to hit the...
by DavidFraser | May 20, 2013 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
It was an informal meeting in a hotel bar with 4 or 5 people present. I’d been asked to say a bit about this myself. This from someone I’d met only a few hours previously. Nothing very unusual about that. What was unusual was the way my short potted...
by DavidFraser | May 17, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
It’s so often the way, isn’t it? Somebody you’re in touch with really sees the change you can help them make in their business. The trouble is… The person who most needs to change is someone else in the organisation, quite probably somebody...
by DavidFraser | May 10, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Wisdom
We’re so accustomed to ever-present change and the need to lead ourselves and others through challenging times, we’re inclined to think leadership itself is a changing field. I am anyway, or I was. Actually, of course, it’s really the one constant… I mean...
