by DavidFraser | Apr 10, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Are your perceptions of relative cost up to date? I’m struck by how often people comment on the cost of phoning transatlantic. “That’ll be really expensive they say.” Actually, landline-to-landline, with my pretty average phone contract, it costs about £3 or $5 for an...
by DavidFraser | Apr 8, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
During a workshop recently, I asked for observations on the learning exercise we’d just done. Two people spoke up almost in unison, except that what they said was very different… “It’s amazing how different people are,” said one. “It’s amazing how much we’re all...
by DavidFraser | Mar 29, 2013 | Change, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
Well, one of the troubles with profiling… In forming teams, it’s a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be comfortable at first. So we reach for the psychometric tests—how...
by DavidFraser | Mar 27, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a curious thing… When we have someone with knowledge or authority in front of us, do we get them talking in order to learn as much as we can from their expertise? Or do we take more of the airtime ourselves, because we feel a greater need to explain...
by DavidFraser | Mar 20, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
It’s a conditioned reaction… Anything nebulous, intangible and “irrational” we want to fit into familiar tangible, rational and logical processes, usually in the form of paperwork or information on a screen. Then we can process the result, and we can share it...
by DavidFraser | Mar 6, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Or would you rather keep searching yourself? It’s tempting to say “Of course we want the answer if someone else has it”? But do we really? Sometimes the loss of face, the embarrassment, or the hurt to our ego is too much to bear, and we avoid seeing what’s offered. Of...
