by DavidFraser | May 2, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Development
In program and project management, people talk about “straightening out the program,” meaning to set it on an orderly basis, with dependencies between one task and another, and resource availability in the face of constraints, properly recognised. Without that...
by DavidFraser | Apr 30, 2014 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Some lessons keep coming round, for me they do anyway… Getting focused has a double benefit—probably more than double actually. Dropping some tasks—disengaging from some projects or organisations—has the obvious benefit of freeing up some time. But it’s much...
by DavidFraser | Apr 28, 2014 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
I imagine you’ve had this experience… Someone keeps repeating a behaviour that causes problems for everyone else. “Why do they keep doing that?” we ask ourselves. “Why do they not see that there are going to be consequences? Why don’t they change?” The answer of...
by DavidFraser | Apr 25, 2014 | Change, Leadership
How much knowledge do you need to have before it feels OK to say you don’t know? Seems like a paradox, doesn’t it? If we know quite a bit about something, we probably have a good idea just how much we don’t know. And we have some authority. If we don’t know that much,...
by DavidFraser | Apr 23, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
It’s a strategy for corporate or organisational survival… “Getting the issue off my desk” (and onto someone else’s). I think we all do this, one way or another—in our personal lives too. It’s one way of coping with the volume of communication we have to deal...
