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 | Feb 6, 2015 | Business, Change, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
We don’t have all the answers. That’s true whether we’re on the outside of the issue looking in or on the inside looking out. The leadership team knows its business, whereas the change agent knows something useful the insiders don’t currently...
by DavidFraser | Jan 28, 2015 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Most of the time we focus on answering the question—or trying to. But is it the right question? Are we investing our energies in solving the right problem? In my own (sometimes painful) experience… We’re inclined to spend rather too much time trying to answer a...
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 | Jul 30, 2014 | Learning, Personal Mastery
It’s great to be resourceful in solving problems with what’s available. But that ability carries a hidden danger… We have the option of not dealing the with issue permanently. If you realise you’re improvising the same solution to the same...
by DavidFraser | Mar 26, 2014 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
It’s remarkable really, how hard we work to stop others helping us. Why is that? Is it because the help is clearly rubbish? Is it because the help doesn’t actually apply to us? Is it because the time isn’t right? Or is it that we’re comfortable...
