by DavidFraser | Apr 13, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We know we need feedback: We need other people to let us know how we are doing; to challenge our ideas; and to shake our assumptions (especially if they are out of date). That doesn’t mean we necessarily enjoy the process, of course. Often it’s distinctly...
by DavidFraser | Mar 30, 2015 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
We perhaps tend to think of “brand” from the purely business point of view of supporting a premium price for a product or attracting customers. But the concept is also very relevant to relationships at the individual level. If we have a favourable personal...
by DavidFraser | Mar 23, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
How is it that it makes such a difference if we make sure people feel included? I understand the explanation to be a deep-seated part of our nature—the need to belong to a group to survive—literally. In earlier times, if we became separated from the group, we would be...
by DavidFraser | Mar 16, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
We don’t challenge what we say ourselves. (Not unless we’re like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings anyway.) OK, we might be conflicted about some subject of concern to us, and have some inner tension around that, but on the whole, we don’t reject the...
by DavidFraser | Mar 9, 2015 | Organizations, Relationship Skills, Uncategorized
We all have an ego. We couldn’t function properly without one. We need our sense of separateness. On the other hand… Our ego can blind us to the feedback we need to receive in order to grow and to develop or make the right decision. Unfortunately, we tend...
by DavidFraser | Feb 24, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
I don’t mean are you causing the problem: I mean are you engaged with it; or engaged with the people who are dealing with it? If not, you probably won’t have much impact. If you’re dissociated from the problem or the people, chances are you...
