by DavidFraser | Mar 6, 2013 | Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Or would you rather keep searching yourself? It’s tempting to say “Of course we want the answer if someone else has it”? But do we really? Sometimes the loss of face, the embarrassment, or the hurt to our ego is too much to bear, and we avoid seeing what’s offered. Of...
by DavidFraser | Feb 25, 2013 | Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s a funny thing… Socially, it seems to be expected that we behave as if everyone knows what they need to know; that they are not learning anything further; that they are complete. And yet… We’re learning all the time: How to deal with new situations,...
by DavidFraser | Feb 13, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
For organisations to learn, people need to tell the truth, and to discuss the “undiscussable.” If they think one thing and say another, how can the collective entity ever understand what’s really going on? In other words, people need to be “real,” or “congruent” in...
by DavidFraser | Feb 4, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
To lead on an issue, you need to get attention somehow, and to do that you need to stand out in some way—no use, therefore, trying to blend in, at least not all the time. To take a lead you need to accept the possibility of ending up leaving “the tribe”....
by DavidFraser | Jan 30, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom, World Affairs
Given the large scale challenges facing the world, it’s tempting to get on a mission of changing the whole system, thinking that’s the only way we can make progress. Trouble is… Pick any major issue you like and it’s easy to show that the system which determines...
by DavidFraser | Jan 28, 2013 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems, Wisdom
Do you even give yourself time to think? Culturally, in the West at least, we behave as if we’re expected to move into action quickly, and usually we are. But what if the action we take isn’t the right action? An action taken in haste is often exactly the...
