by DavidFraser | Mar 11, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
Sometimes it seems that other people have special talents—talents we can’t match. There may be some truth in that in some cases. More often… The difference is just that they’ve developed tremendous clarity in what they are about. And because...
by DavidFraser | Jan 28, 2015 | Learning, Personal Mastery
Most of the time we focus on answering the question—or trying to. But is it the right question? Are we investing our energies in solving the right problem? In my own (sometimes painful) experience… We’re inclined to spend rather too much time trying to answer a...
by DavidFraser | Jan 27, 2015 | Relationship Skills
Sometimes it’s worth reminding ourselves of our reasons for doing something. Specifically… Why focus on relationship skills, whether in a professional or a personal context? After all, talking about the subject can seem a bit “preachy” if...
by DavidFraser | Jun 30, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We’re accustomed to wanting clarity. We’d like things to be clearly in focus. We’d like a single right answer. But sometimes… The best we’re going to get is clear sight of the inherently multi-faceted nature of the situation—the different considerations we need...
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...
