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...
by DavidFraser | Oct 3, 2011 | Current Affairs, Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, World Affairs
As do we all. Did you hear the surprise? If the world wide web could gasp, you would have heard it from mid-ocean. A city trader said candidly that he hoped for another recession because he could make a lot of money from one. Various commentators then rather missed...
by DavidFraser | Sep 28, 2011 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills
The onlookers hold their breath… Frank has worked in the organization for years. He’s just queried the young, new manager’s request to undertake a task in a particular way. Frank doesn’t think it’s the most effective approach. In fact, he doubts it’ll work at...
by DavidFraser | Sep 12, 2011 | Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Organizations, Personal Story, Relationship Skills
You’ve heard it before. You might even have said it yourself… “Training doesn’t work.” or “When I get back to the workplace, I find it very hard to apply what I’ve learned.” These can be opposite sides of the same coin – a disconnect between individual...
