by DavidFraser | Sep 12, 2011 | Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Organizations, Personal Story, Relationship Skills
You’ve heard it before. You might even have said it yourself… “Training doesn’t work.” or “When I get back to the workplace, I find it very hard to apply what I’ve learned.” These can be opposite sides of the same coin – a disconnect between individual...
by DavidFraser | Aug 15, 2011 | Organizations, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
“Isn’t it just the human condition?” my friend remarked. We were discussing the difficulty of getting organizations to understand the problems they face and our reluctance as leaders to accept that we may be causing our own difficulties. “Yes” I replied, welcoming the...
by DavidFraser | Jan 12, 2011 | Current Affairs, Organizations, Relationship Skills
A mistake we sometimes make is expecting people to act in a way that isn’t aligned with their interests. They won’t do that. Not ever. You hear people saying things like, “They should do such and such”. What they really mean is, “It would suit me very well if they...
by DavidFraser | Nov 25, 2010 | Organizations, Relationship Skills
How is it that organisations are content to go on spending £100ks or $100ks or more per month on salaries of people doing their jobs badly, but not a few £k or $k teaching them how to do their jobs well? In recessionary times, many organisations cut...
by DavidFraser | Nov 13, 2010 | Inspiration, Organizations
Great discussion with the team from Unipart led by John Neill, Group Chief Executive of the Unipart Group of Companies at the Business in the Parliament conference in Edinburgh (12 November 2010). John talked about the benefits of a largely employee-owned businesses...
by DavidFraser | May 11, 2010 | Current Affairs, Organizations, Relationship Skills
Whatever the final outcome of all the negotiations, some skill in relating well to other people and some care to do this over time has put David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the position where they seem to have the best chance of forming a stable government, whereas...
