by DavidFraser | Jun 8, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
Are you hard to help? Or does that just apply to some of the people you work with? It’s such a waste when we make it difficult for other people to give us the help we need; when we let our pride or our ego put up barriers when others are trying to act in our...
by DavidFraser | Apr 13, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We know we need feedback: We need other people to let us know how we are doing; to challenge our ideas; and to shake our assumptions (especially if they are out of date). That doesn’t mean we necessarily enjoy the process, of course. Often it’s distinctly...
by DavidFraser | Mar 20, 2015 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Learning, Systems
The short answer is ego. Organisations, teams, and individuals (including ourselves) have a habit of claiming to operate according to a set of theories that apply to our work. With the best of intentions, we set out to do our business based on a set of assumptions we...
by DavidFraser | Aug 2, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Sometimes they creep up on us… New options, that is. We don’t notice at first. We’re so busy working on our current options—well, actually, our old options—that we don’t notice new ones have opened up. I know I’ve done this—kept going with something that’s no...
by DavidFraser | Jun 12, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
That might seem a strange question, but think about it: Do you resist the learning which comes from your influences? Actually, I think, most of us do. Because influence means change, and change means discomfort for our ego, we tend to push back on ideas that...
