by DavidFraser | Aug 20, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Some prefer an adversarial approach to doing business. They think they’ll do better if they have more room to maneuver at arms length; more opportunity to a present favorable message if they withhold information; more opportunity to attack and defend. Sometimes both...
by DavidFraser | Aug 10, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Watching interviews with Gold Medal winners and other Olympic high performers, it’s striking how most of them seem thoroughly pleasant and even ordinary people – very far from the sometime stereotype of winner as warrior. In short, they are profoundly...
by DavidFraser | Jul 22, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom
Reading David Bohm’s book “On Dialogue,” which, not surprisingly, has a particularly helpful exposition of the difference between dialogue and discussion… (David Bohm was a renowned physicist of the twentieth century who also made great...
by DavidFraser | Jul 13, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We appreciate the value of knowing we can contact someone when things are difficult; knowing that that person will “be there” for us. What does it really take to do this? We might imagine it involves sharing the burden of the problem, and so shy away from the load. In...
by DavidFraser | Jul 11, 2012 | Inspiration, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Wimbledon… Andy Murray is expected to speak on live TV to millions of people having just lost to Roger Federer in the final, and struggles to compose himself as you can see here if you missed it at the time. Some commentators wrote that he was in tears because...
by DavidFraser | Jul 4, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We love sayings like these… “Many hands make light work” “The more you tell the more you sell.” “What gets measured gets done.” They certainly sound convincing. But are they true? In most cases, yes and no. You can usually find another clever phrase that states...
