by DavidFraser | Jun 11, 2012 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
The speaker presents a prescription based on a profound understanding of human beings. That’s the way it seems to me anyway. Some listeners find what’s said challenging, and reject the messages, saying it’s all very “American”. (This scene is in the UK, needless to...
by DavidFraser | Jun 3, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
Can you stop the leaks? …or is there a better answer? Authenticity—being real—is the key to powerful connection with others. As human beings, we are highly adept at sensing lack of authenticity. And yet, it’s surprising how many individuals and organizations...
by DavidFraser | May 31, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
The contributors round the table are, in turns, articulate and persuasive in their advocacy of their particular way of looking at the problem and their approach to its solution. After all, their understanding really has helped them solve significant problems in the...
by DavidFraser | May 24, 2012 | Learning, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery
“If you are not seeing things properly, you have no hope of any sort of breakthrough,” so wrote Joshua Cooper Ramo in his thought-provoking book “The Age of the Unthinkable”, quoting the Buddhist principle of Right vision: Right intention: Right action (in that...
by DavidFraser | May 16, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
As we look at our role models, it’s easy to notice the pieces of their capability that we don’t have, or don’t have yet. Not so obvious in the picture—in fact, not visible at all—is what we have that they don’t. And it may be at least as much. Taken overall… We...
by DavidFraser | May 2, 2012 | Leadership, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
The meeting starts in the late afternoon—to prepare for the big one the following day. The purpose is to “spin” the numbers to get the outcome we want in the meeting tomorrow; to construct an argument based on the data to influence the other side; to get them to agree...
