by DavidFraser | Jan 18, 2016 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
If we’re not to stand still, or worse, go backwards, we obviously need to keep developing: We need to progress. That means change. Now, will our existing contacts welcome that change? Some will, some won’t, presumably. No doubt, most are supportive, and...
by DavidFraser | Nov 30, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Scotland, Wisdom
Sir Brian Souter, highly successful co-founder of the Stagecoach bus group and always an entertaining speaker, made the front page of the Scottish broadsheet newspaper “The Herald” on Saturday with his conference comment that “too many large companies are run by...
by DavidFraser | Nov 27, 2015 | Change, Leadership
Just because you can tell someone what to do doesn’t mean you should, or that it’s the best option. In most situations, probably, you’ll be right—the one in the know, the one with the insight to see the correct course of action, the one with the relevant experience....
by DavidFraser | Nov 2, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Systems
No, not that. Most of us need a kick up the assumptions—our assumptions about what’s possible, about how things might happen, and especially about other people and our relationships with them. We tend not to see how the assumptions we unconsciously make affect...
by DavidFraser | Oct 30, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
…not necessarily the orderliness of your systems. Order around us is generally helpful and a good thing—of course it is, but at the end of the day… What really counts is our own internal order—how organised we are in what we do and how we think and who we...
