by DavidFraser | Feb 4, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
To lead on an issue, you need to get attention somehow, and to do that you need to stand out in some way—no use, therefore, trying to blend in, at least not all the time. To take a lead you need to accept the possibility of ending up leaving “the tribe”....
by DavidFraser | Jan 20, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
In fact, it probably is. We tend to dismiss new input which doesn’t fit with our view of things, simply because it doesn’t feel right. Our unconscious tells us something is “off”. “Intuitively” we know something else to be true. Or...
by DavidFraser | Jan 14, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
What would your response be then? We often feel other people have let us down in some way, or maybe they’ve let others down, or even themselves. We feel they could have done better. Maybe they could. Or maybe, actually, they couldn’t… Maybe, in fact,...
by DavidFraser | Dec 11, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Wisdom
We’re at a gathering of professionals… Some present find some of the language challenging. It doesn’t fit with their culture. They would like some of the words to be changed. They want met at their map of the world… Make what you’re saying fit our...
by DavidFraser | Nov 29, 2012 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Some of what we learn causes us to feel different physically. It’s profound enough that something changes for us psychosomatically—our different thoughts influence our body enough that we notice the difference. We get a feedback that something has changed for the...
by DavidFraser | Nov 26, 2012 | Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Some participants make sure their contributions to the meeting add something to the main thread of the dialogue. You can tell they are mindful of the main direction of the subject at hand, and see it as bigger than any of them individually. They know how to nurture...
