by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
It’s striking how some organizations think first of the scale required to roll something new out to the workforce at large—a daunting and expensive undertaking. And yet often the same effect can be achieved with the leadership group attending thoroughly to their own...
by DavidFraser | Apr 10, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Are your perceptions of relative cost up to date? I’m struck by how often people comment on the cost of phoning transatlantic. “That’ll be really expensive they say.” Actually, landline-to-landline, with my pretty average phone contract, it costs about £3 or $5 for an...
by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a curious thing… When we have someone with knowledge or authority in front of us, do we get them talking in order to learn as much as we can from their expertise? Or do we take more of the airtime ourselves, because we feel a greater need to explain...
by DavidFraser | Mar 6, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Or would you rather keep searching yourself? It’s tempting to say “Of course we want the answer if someone else has it”? But do we really? Sometimes the loss of face, the embarrassment, or the hurt to our ego is too much to bear, and we avoid seeing what’s offered. Of...
by DavidFraser | Feb 25, 2013 | Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s a funny thing… Socially, it seems to be expected that we behave as if everyone knows what they need to know; that they are not learning anything further; that they are complete. And yet… We’re learning all the time: How to deal with new situations,...
by DavidFraser | Feb 8, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning
Occasionally you learn something truly new and advance the field in some way. It feels like a tiny step to you—one you hardly think worthy of the name. And yet… For the rest of us, getting to that new layer you’ve added on top on an existing body of knowledge is...
