by DavidFraser | Feb 7, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
Have you ever tried getting a hedgehog to move? What happens if you frighten it? Sometimes out walking in the dark, I’ve come across a hedgehog on the road. It’s dangerous for a hedgehog, being on the road—a bit like an organisation in a changing world. So...
by DavidFraser | Feb 5, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery
That’s the point. If you could evidence it, then it wouldn’t be an inkling. It’d be a fact, or at least a strong hypothesis. Many organisations only want to act on facts. They ask their people to prove their inklings; to make a head-space thing out...
by DavidFraser | Feb 3, 2014 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, Systems
Have you ever tried to use just one foot when you’re meant to use two? I imagined it wouldn’t be very easy, but I decided I’d better experiment before writing this post… So I tried it today. (We leave nothing to chance in the search for the best information for...
by DavidFraser | Jul 27, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
We seem to live in divergent times… On the one hand, corporate organisations are becoming more procedural, more numbers-driven, more top-down in their approach. (That’s a generalisation of course, and perhaps not even an accurate one, and there are certainly...
by DavidFraser | May 17, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
It’s so often the way, isn’t it? Somebody you’re in touch with really sees the change you can help them make in their business. The trouble is… The person who most needs to change is someone else in the organisation, quite probably somebody...
by DavidFraser | Mar 17, 2013 | Organizations, Project management, Relationship Skills
It’s likely you’ll have an immediate response to that question. But is it actually so simple? And is your response the same as everyone else’s? From the opposite perspective, we could equally ask, “Does a close relationship help or hinder cost-effective procurement?”...
