by DavidFraser | Feb 27, 2017 | Leadership, Wisdom
Flexibility is a good thing. However… Sometimes—and about some things—we need to be inflexible: We need to have boundaries. We need to decide what we are going to accept and what we are not going to accept. Actually, we probably already know, deep down (we can...
by DavidFraser | Mar 24, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
It’s good to be accommodating. It helps make a reality of collaboration and getting a group of people working together. Sometimes though… We need to be demanding. Some roles involve directing an organisation on behalf of stakeholders of one kind and...
by DavidFraser | May 10, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Wisdom
We’re so accustomed to ever-present change and the need to lead ourselves and others through challenging times, we’re inclined to think leadership itself is a changing field. I am anyway, or I was. Actually, of course, it’s really the one constant… I mean...
by DavidFraser | Apr 19, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
There’s a problem with the team. They’re not performing as effectively as we would expect… Tempting perhaps to reach for the psychometric profiling tools to understand who’s doing what and why. But there’s a danger… The results of profiling are almost...
by DavidFraser | Apr 30, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Relationship skills are sometimes seen as a subject for members of the younger generation—as if their need is the greater and older colleagues already know what they need to know. But it isn’t necessarily so. Sure, experienced people are more skilled in professional...
