by DavidFraser | Mar 29, 2013 | Change, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
Well, one of the troubles with profiling… In forming teams, it’s a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be comfortable at first. So we reach for the psychometric tests—how...
by DavidFraser | Mar 8, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Wisdom
How do you keep it going? How do you build your earnings to sustain what you are doing without compromising your leadership “mission” (if that’s the right word)? If you’re not careful, you end up contracted to deliver something that’s at...
by DavidFraser | Feb 8, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning
Occasionally you learn something truly new and advance the field in some way. It feels like a tiny step to you—one you hardly think worthy of the name. And yet… For the rest of us, getting to that new layer you’ve added on top on an existing body of knowledge is...
by DavidFraser | Oct 12, 2012 | Change, Communication, Organizations, Wisdom
We hear it so often: “People don’t like change.” That isn’t quite right: After all, most of us would like a doubling of our income, or the gift of a free holiday with everything taken care of. We like that kind of change. Really, it’s that we don’t like feeling...
by DavidFraser | Apr 18, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery
If you’re anything like me, your first reaction to the question might be ”Of course I solve a problem when I can.” But do you? Do you always make the choice to deal with an issue when you have the means to? Or do you sometimes leave the problem because actually it’s...
