by DavidFraser | Oct 19, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We’ve all experienced people who have a powerful presence, whether we’ve come across them individually ourselves or just observed them as public figures. Indeed, we may well have that quality to a degree—even a considerable degree—ourselves. Perhaps we might like to...
by DavidFraser | Sep 14, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Relationship Skills
…may be scarcer than the ability to generate the ideas themselves. It’s conventional to think that the ability to generate novel, practical ideas is rare. That may well be true. In fact though… The ability to get novel, practical ideas taken up and...
by DavidFraser | Sep 7, 2015 | Relationship Skills, Systems
Sometime we need shaken up a bit. We get set in our ways. We fail to notice that the world has changed around us. So a disruptive input can be good for us—what we need, even if it isn’t very comfortable at the time. No doubt we will need to settle back to some...
by DavidFraser | Aug 31, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
Transformational leadership i.e. leadership that truly brings out the best in people in a sustainable way requires presence, or rather being present. We need to be involved and connected. On the other hand… Transactional leadership that seeks to manage...
by DavidFraser | Aug 24, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
It’s conventional to admire the creator of novel work—the ground-breaking innovator. In fact, much value is added in the interpretation of new ideas for familiar situations. And that’s an art too. There’s considerable skill in sensing what a person...
by DavidFraser | Aug 17, 2015 | Relationship Skills, Systems
In relationships of whatever kind, there’s potential for getting in a muddle over this: By “fair,” do we mean “equal” or do we mean “in proportion?” This is a key distinction in moral psychology developed in Jonathan...
