by DavidFraser | Mar 16, 2015 | Communication, Leadership, Relationship Skills
We don’t challenge what we say ourselves. (Not unless we’re like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings anyway.) OK, we might be conflicted about some subject of concern to us, and have some inner tension around that, but on the whole, we don’t reject the...
by DavidFraser | Mar 13, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Organizations
In owning and operating something complex, like a house, for instance, it’s easy to let small flaws grow into big ones. If we don’t deal with minor issues in a relentless way, eventually the whole entity is degraded. It’s like that with a business or...
by DavidFraser | Mar 11, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it seems that other people have special talents—talents we can’t match. There may be some truth in that in some cases. More often… The difference is just that they’ve developed tremendous clarity in what they are about. And because...
by DavidFraser | Mar 9, 2015 | Organizations, Relationship Skills, Uncategorized
We all have an ego. We couldn’t function properly without one. We need our sense of separateness. On the other hand… Our ego can blind us to the feedback we need to receive in order to grow and to develop or make the right decision. Unfortunately, we tend...
by DavidFraser | Feb 24, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
I don’t mean are you causing the problem: I mean are you engaged with it; or engaged with the people who are dealing with it? If not, you probably won’t have much impact. If you’re dissociated from the problem or the people, chances are you...