by DavidFraser | Apr 9, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
…em, quite hard. That’s my experience anyway. Doesn’t mean it isn’t the right principle though, just that it isn’t that easy to achieve, especially if our vision isn’t very clear. I remember… The amazing effect of putting some...
by DavidFraser | Mar 12, 2014 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Mastery
…it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of other people. It was a week of Winston Churchill quotes last week, though not, in fact, this one: “In making plans for war, it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of the...
by DavidFraser | Aug 23, 2013 | Change, Leadership
It’s good to focus—in fact, essential if we want to be effective and get something done. Agreed. But sometimes we need to focus on the whole, not just a part. And that’s often our problem. We narrow our vision to something we think we can work on; something we...
by DavidFraser | May 29, 2013 | Business, Influence, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Focus, focus, focus—the key to having an impact, making progress, gaining traction. But what if you don’t really know what works, or don’t know yet? If you’re doing something new, you’re very unlikely to get it right first time. If you had enough knowledge to hit the...
by DavidFraser | Dec 23, 2012 | Communication, Relationship Skills
In conversation, we commonly think the quality of a question is judged by the information gained and its usefulness to the questioner. But maybe that isn’t right… Perhaps the quality of a question really depends on how the person of whom it is asked works with...
