by DavidFraser | Feb 13, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
For organisations to learn, people need to tell the truth, and to discuss the “undiscussable.” If they think one thing and say another, how can the collective entity ever understand what’s really going on? In other words, people need to be “real,” or “congruent” in...
by DavidFraser | Feb 4, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
To lead on an issue, you need to get attention somehow, and to do that you need to stand out in some way—no use, therefore, trying to blend in, at least not all the time. To take a lead you need to accept the possibility of ending up leaving “the tribe”....
by DavidFraser | Jan 30, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom, World Affairs
Given the large scale challenges facing the world, it’s tempting to get on a mission of changing the whole system, thinking that’s the only way we can make progress. Trouble is… Pick any major issue you like and it’s easy to show that the system which determines...
by DavidFraser | Jan 25, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Systems
It is said that “The policy maker should act as a gardener not an architect.” In other words, the policy maker will do better to support good ideas that emerge rather than direct from on high. I connect that with experience of some organizations that assume new ideas...
by DavidFraser | Jan 23, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Systems
Or do you always give an answer even if you’re not sure? One of the greatest gifts a leader can give their team (and themselves) is to show that it’s OK to say you don’t know, or at least it’s much better to say you don’t know than to pretend you do. Here’s the...
by DavidFraser | Jan 20, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
In fact, it probably is. We tend to dismiss new input which doesn’t fit with our view of things, simply because it doesn’t feel right. Our unconscious tells us something is “off”. “Intuitively” we know something else to be true. Or...
