by DavidFraser | Feb 8, 2023 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
I’m not the first to say this, I know, but it’s worth repeating: We gain from learning to understand more about how people interact. Many of us are never really taught this – certainly not in any systematic way. This gap – and opportunity – is especially true in...
by DavidFraser | Feb 27, 2017 | Leadership, Wisdom
Flexibility is a good thing. However… Sometimes—and about some things—we need to be inflexible: We need to have boundaries. We need to decide what we are going to accept and what we are not going to accept. Actually, we probably already know, deep down (we can...
by DavidFraser | Feb 20, 2017 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Learning something isn’t the same as accepting it, necessarily. We don’t have to commit to agreeing with something before, or even as, we learn it. And often we can’t evaluate some new piece of knowledge or a new skill properly until we have thoroughly...
by DavidFraser | Nov 30, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Scotland, Wisdom
Sir Brian Souter, highly successful co-founder of the Stagecoach bus group and always an entertaining speaker, made the front page of the Scottish broadsheet newspaper “The Herald” on Saturday with his conference comment that “too many large companies are run by...
by DavidFraser | Jul 27, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Sometimes revisiting a simpler way of life reminds us of important things: Take single track roads with passing places, for example… (We have these in Scotland, especially on the islands, but maybe not in your part of the world, I know.) In case you’ve never...
by DavidFraser | May 11, 2015 | Relationship Skills, Wisdom
…it did. (And a note on the kindness of strangers.) Last weekend turned into a nightmare for reasons of ill health in the family and other unexpected developments. Part of dealing with that involved driving some family members home late on Monday night in...
