by DavidFraser | May 11, 2015 | Relationship Skills, Wisdom
…it did. (And a note on the kindness of strangers.) Last weekend turned into a nightmare for reasons of ill health in the family and other unexpected developments. Part of dealing with that involved driving some family members home late on Monday night in...
by DavidFraser | May 1, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
We need to get people’s attention from time to time… We may well need them to accommodate what we need done, or what they need to do to give effect to what we’re offering them. If we expect them to drop everything though, it probably isn’t going to happen. I’ve...
by DavidFraser | Apr 29, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Start really, really small. Sometimes, it’s difficult to get moving. For whatever reason, we’ve become stationary. Perhaps we’ve been away and everything has ground to a halt in the interim. The scale of what we need to accomplish—what we need to get...
by DavidFraser | Apr 27, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We so often find it frustrating when people don’t do what we think they need to do, especially in their dealings with other people. Often it seems pretty obvious what that needed action is, perhaps even to them. And yet it doesn’t happen. Maybe even...
by DavidFraser | Apr 24, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Systems
It’s the modern management obsession: “governance” and, to a degree, quite rightly so. We do need our organisations and our projects to be well-managed. The trouble is… Governance on its own isn’t enough to prepare an organisation for the...
