by DavidFraser | Nov 14, 2011 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
“Send us your top ten tips,” they say, following the ever-popular way to introduce someone’s work. This presents a dilemma… Just go along with the request and supply a list of useful, but rather shallow ideas, and be complicit in a state of impatient ignorance?...
by DavidFraser | Nov 7, 2011 | Current Affairs, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
The protestors have achieved a great deal of publicity. Some of them, without intending to, have caused a religious institution (St Paul’s Cathedral in London) to lose its balance (about whose side it’s on), with senior figures resigning. The protestors are...
by DavidFraser | Nov 2, 2011 | Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
The email Inbox just gets bigger. The paper in-tray still stacks up dauntingly too. And that’s not to mention all the other channels: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Skype text chat, SMS messages on mobile/cell phones, and StumbleUpon to mention only some. Oh I nearly...
by DavidFraser | Oct 24, 2011 | Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Organizations, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
One inevitably leads to the other, or should… Mark is fighting his corner well. Back and forth goes the debate. Mark concedes little. He comes away with most of what he wants. All are tired out and the other side have doubts about engaging with him again. Even...
by DavidFraser | Oct 17, 2011 | Leadership, Organizations, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, World Affairs
How do we benefit from playing or watching competitive sport? Clearly there are health and fitness benefits from active participation, but what about the social benefits of a game? The behavior of some of the followers of some sports might seem to preclude any social...
by DavidFraser | Oct 12, 2011 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” as Robert Burns implored. Well that Power did give us the gift. The question is whether we choose to use it. The gift can be expressed in various ways: Carl Jung talked about “projection” meaning we...
