by DavidFraser | Mar 11, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it seems that other people have special talents—talents we can’t match. There may be some truth in that in some cases. More often… The difference is just that they’ve developed tremendous clarity in what they are about. And because...
by DavidFraser | Feb 11, 2015 | Personal Mastery
Then you might find this helpful… This isn’t my idea at all and, in fact, I’m a student of it. The philosophy is Jim Benson’s and Tonianne DeMaria Barry’s and it’s written up in their book “Personal Kanban.” See...
by DavidFraser | Feb 4, 2015 | Personal Mastery
Are we discriminatory when we buy? We’d all like to think we’re not prejudiced, in general terms, and no doubt we work hard to avoid that. Unfortunately… The reality is, however hard we try, we are likely to be more cautious with people who seem different. The...
by DavidFraser | Jan 28, 2015 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Most of the time we focus on answering the question—or trying to. But is it the right question? Are we investing our energies in solving the right problem? In my own (sometimes painful) experience… We’re inclined to spend rather too much time trying to answer a...
by DavidFraser | Jan 21, 2015 | Personal Mastery
Doing what you have to do today is relatively easy. You have to do it after all. Doing what you don’t have to do today is harder. There’s no urgency: not today, not tomorrow, not even the next day. It’s easy to put it off, especially if the task is a...
by DavidFraser | Jan 14, 2015 | Personal Mastery
Sometimes we avoid getting the figures together because we know we won’t like what they’re telling us. Sometimes our people will avoid preparing information accurately because they’re scared of how we will react to it. That’s a problem. As W Edwards Deming said,...
