by DavidFraser | Mar 19, 2014 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
…it’s a question of whether you need the knowledge. Sometimes we base our choice of what to learn about by what interests us, but actually to succeed in our goals, we need to learn about what’s necessary, even if it isn’t very interesting. Many...
by DavidFraser | Mar 5, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
If we decide, for whatever reason, to be interested in detail rather than the big picture, for example, or possibilities rather than procedures, and we find that that (unconscious) choice works for us, then we’re likely to do more of it—without really thinking,...
by DavidFraser | Feb 26, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
We may dismiss certain kinds of learning… Now it could be that the learning is plain wrong. Or… It could be that we don’t like the implications. One way, we’re right; the other, we’re making a mistake. Choosing not to see things systemically is a common...
by DavidFraser | Nov 3, 2013 | Learning, Relationship Skills
We all have them—those people in our lives we struggle to deal with effectively. And if we find a solution with one, we can be pretty sure there’ll be another along in a minute. It’s tempting to deal with these “difficult” people, or at least the ones we experience as...
by DavidFraser | Oct 28, 2013 | Learning, Relationship Skills
Funny how new perspectives come up when you least expect it, like when chatting with a new contact… I’ve often explained “relationship mastery” (the subject and title of my book) as taking an attitude of continual learning about interpersonal relationship...
by DavidFraser | Sep 27, 2013 | Change, Learning, Personal Mastery
Be careful you don’t get in this situation… You’ve said you have a capability in such and such. It turns out you actually aren’t very good at it. You could get help. But you can’t accept help because you’ve said you can do whatever it is. Then you’re really...
