by DavidFraser | Nov 13, 2017 | Leadership
We all like a bit of freedom—the chance to act on our own initiative. Much of the time that’s a good thing. Recently, however, I’ve been noticing just how much energy can be wasted if everyone is pulling in different directions in an organisation, even if they’re...
by DavidFraser | Aug 21, 2017 | Business, Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills
We need to keep learning e.g. about people; and we need to keep doing or delivering e.g. in a business. So which is more important? Delivering perhaps (it’s certainly likely to be more urgent), but what if the delivery is weak because we haven’t yet learned some...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2017 | Leadership, Marketing, Relationship Skills, Sales
Or is it just natural human reticence that most of us could do with overcoming (though some were never troubled in this way)? For many, we need to work at putting ourselves out there to be judged. It’s uncomfortable, or seems so at first. But arguably it’s...
by DavidFraser | Mar 13, 2017 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, Systems
Many situations seem to require being focused and broad at the same time; being specialist as well as generalist. That appears to be a contradiction, a dichotomy—one that needs very careful handling if a group of people is involved, and a considerable challenge to...
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...
