by DavidFraser | Jun 11, 2012 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
The speaker presents a prescription based on a profound understanding of human beings. That’s the way it seems to me anyway. Some listeners find what’s said challenging, and reject the messages, saying it’s all very “American”. (This scene is in the UK, needless to...
by DavidFraser | May 31, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
The contributors round the table are, in turns, articulate and persuasive in their advocacy of their particular way of looking at the problem and their approach to its solution. After all, their understanding really has helped them solve significant problems in the...
by DavidFraser | May 24, 2012 | Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery
“If you are not seeing things properly, you have no hope of any sort of breakthrough,” so wrote Joshua Cooper Ramo in his thought-provoking book “The Age of the Unthinkable”, quoting the Buddhist principle of Right vision: Right intention: Right action (in that...
by DavidFraser | Apr 25, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Messing about with key phrases on Google such as “change for leaders”, it’s very striking that most of what comes up is about doing change to other people—organizations, employees and so forth, usually by or on behalf of various corporate bodies or consultancies. It’s...
by DavidFraser | Apr 16, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, Organizations
When it comes to a strategy or learning day, we’re used to the practice of “going off-site” to a venue away from the usual workplace. Our intention is to get away from the distractions of the office so that quality, uninterrupted time is spent on the subjects at...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2012 | Learning, NLP, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We think NLP is something out there, when actually it’s something in here. OK, the name is unfortunate. It stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. What sort of mouthful is that? It simply refers to the way we form habits by what we repeatedly do and say, and how we...
