by DavidFraser | Jun 27, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Have you noticed? We’re blaming our handheld devices… “Please forgive the typos. I’m an innocent victim of my evil iThang. Please work out for yourself what I really meant because I haven’t got time.” And in true blaming style,...
by DavidFraser | Jun 20, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We tend to think that if we align everything we do with what we want to do our results will be better simply because we’re content to be engaged actively in all the tasks. But it isn’t necessarily so easy… When we find a deeper sense of purpose, or if you like,...
by DavidFraser | Jun 17, 2012 | Communication, Leadership, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
The host pokes a little fun at the participants. It’s part of an elaborate pattern, you might even say a ritual, in some ways intended to lighten the mood. Trouble is, those at the receiving end feel a little intimidated and may think twice about contributing to the...
by DavidFraser | Jun 13, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
Take a computer program: Essentially every single byte (or character in the source code) has to be right for the software to function correctly. Or think of a product development project: Pretty much all the pieces have to be correctly executed before the new product...
by DavidFraser | May 31, 2012 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
The contributors round the table are, in turns, articulate and persuasive in their advocacy of their particular way of looking at the problem and their approach to its solution. After all, their understanding really has helped them solve significant problems in the...
by DavidFraser | May 16, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
As we look at our role models, it’s easy to notice the pieces of their capability that we don’t have, or don’t have yet. Not so obvious in the picture—in fact, not visible at all—is what we have that they don’t. And it may be at least as much. Taken overall… We...
