by DavidFraser | Jun 16, 2014 | Relationship Skills
Where do you draw the line between helping team members step up to their role and not overdoing it so that they end up depending on you? How do you decide where the right balance lies? Does it depend on the organisation? Some businesses are, by nature, very demanding...
by DavidFraser | Nov 13, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
“Be yourself.” We’re familiar with that advice, and it’s good advice. That way we come across as authentic and “real” to other people, which they like, for the most part. But there’s something we miss, and it makes all the...
by DavidFraser | Aug 5, 2013 | Change, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
It’s an easy trap to fall into. In fact, it’s not so much a trap as the normal course… We act today to justify how we were yesterday. And we do the same tomorrow, and the next day and the next day… I know I’ve done this—many times. We all do it, I think....
by DavidFraser | Oct 17, 2012 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
We might worry that operating in a principled and compassionate way makes us vulnerable—vulnerable to those who are happy to trample others in their quest for success; individuals who don’t care what happens to the people they encounter along the way. My experience is...
by DavidFraser | Sep 28, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
We tend to think of leadership as something we do consciously. In fact, it’s not really like that at all. After all… As ground-breaking doctor and hypno-therapist, Milton Erickson said “what you don’t realise is your life is mostly...
