by DavidFraser | Feb 12, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery
I don’t mean like your car… Do you need attention from other people? It’s often nice to have a little bit of attention, but does it always help you get what you want? Perhaps not… Conventional wisdom says that before you can be heard you have...
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 | Jan 29, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
…or hear what’s said in our presence? Particularly when we’re challenged by a situation, it seems we focus quite a bit on our thinking about the problem. That seems natural. And yet… It tends to mean we stop paying full attention to the...
by DavidFraser | Dec 17, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
It starts like this… I’m not that happy with the way the meeting is going. Certain things about the way the other person talks or acts, I don’t really like. At least, I don’t feel that I want to work with them or do business with them, or certainly not yet. So,...
by DavidFraser | Dec 4, 2013 | Personal Mastery
He says there’s a “me, them and us” attitude at his place of work. He sees two sides, but feels separate from both. Meanwhile… He sits slightly apart from the little group in our workshop and politely declines an invitation to join the main body of participants,...
by DavidFraser | Dec 3, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
For some time I have been puzzled about this… When is it best to seek to lead and when is it best to follow? That’s an important choice to make in any situation, or so it appears. But here’s the thing… When people are really “in the zone” together, for...
