by DavidFraser | Apr 27, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
… as opposed to what you know about. It’s one thing to know about something, quite another to know a subject and be able to deploy it in life. Unless you can do (or be) something, you don’t know it, not really. There’s a world of a difference between...
by DavidFraser | Apr 24, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We see it as all or nothing with political leaders, and others too for that matter. If there’s something we dislike about them or what they’ve done, we’re inclined to dismiss everything about them. Nice and tidy, but a mistake. Because some of what everyone does is...
by DavidFraser | Apr 19, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
There’s a problem with the team. They’re not performing as effectively as we would expect… Tempting perhaps to reach for the psychometric profiling tools to understand who’s doing what and why. But there’s a danger… The results of profiling are almost...
by DavidFraser | Apr 17, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Systems
Can we ever be completely holistic? Or can we only hope to be more holistic than we were yesterday? Is that even a good idea? It’s generally a worthy goal, striving to ensure our actions are matched to as whole and balanced a view as possible. More chance then of our...
by DavidFraser | Apr 15, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it’s obvious… We notice when our friends and associates are holding back from committing to something—or maybe someone—which in itself is preventing them achieving the results they want. We might encourage them to “go for it” or to...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
It’s striking how some organizations think first of the scale required to roll something new out to the workforce at large—a daunting and expensive undertaking. And yet often the same effect can be achieved with the leadership group attending thoroughly to their own...
