by DavidFraser | Sep 28, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
We tend to think of leadership as something we do consciously. In fact, it’s not really like that at all. After all… As ground-breaking doctor and hypno-therapist, Milton Erickson said “what you don’t realise is your life is mostly...
by DavidFraser | Sep 24, 2012 | Energy, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
People interacting with one another have sensory experiences involving images, sounds and feelings. Yet we’re often tempted to reach for analytical models; to turn the flesh and blood experience into an intellectual exercise and try to manage relationships at that...
by DavidFraser | Sep 19, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Scotland
He travelled 18,297 miles round the world on a bicycle and beat his target of 195 days by 8 hours. His target was in reality an arbitrary estimate based on 100 miles per day with an allowance for unforeseen difficulties. In so doing, he smashed the previous world...
by DavidFraser | Sep 14, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
The notion of the “servant leader” conveys the important idea of the leader serving the people he or she leads. That’s a useful shift in perspective from the more traditional idea of leader as master and the led serving the leader. But perhaps...
by DavidFraser | Sep 7, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
We’re probably familiar with the old expression “a shadow of her former self”, implying a temporary or even permanent decline from earlier capability and presence. But perhaps the change is in the other direction. Perhaps you are now a mere shadow of what you could...
by DavidFraser | Sep 3, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
He visibly changed in front of our eyes… From a barely there, fidgeting, rather evasive character, he became a solid, three-dimensional, distinctly present person with solid eye contact and a strong voice to match. What made the difference? Thinking of a...
