by DavidFraser | Feb 3, 2023 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
What’s your habitual time unit of focus? An hour, a day, a week, a month – or more – or less? What quantum of time do you block out for a singular, intense task? Probably all intervals of time have their place, depending on what you need to get done, though, of...
by DavidFraser | Jan 7, 2019 | Change, Leadership
…especially significant ones we care about. Last year, I allowed too much of my capacity, especially my reading capacity, to be taken up following the news—hoping for some signs of sense prevailing, especially in Britain and America, frankly. Sense in these contexts...
by DavidFraser | Mar 13, 2017 | Leadership, Organizations, Relationship Skills, Systems
Many situations seem to require being focused and broad at the same time; being specialist as well as generalist. That appears to be a contradiction, a dichotomy—one that needs very careful handling if a group of people is involved, and a considerable challenge to...
by DavidFraser | Jun 8, 2016 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
It’s seem slightly paradoxical, doesn’t it? If we put our big goal out of our mind and just focus on getting small things done, it’s easier to take those minor steps—to do the mundane. And so we make more progress towards our main objective. The...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2015 | Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery
Is this true? Watching my early teenage years children struggle at times to focus on their homework in the face of diverse and increasing electronic distractions, I wonder whether their generation is growing up in the most distracting environment there has ever been....