by DavidFraser | Jan 30, 2015 | Change, Leadership
They say the way we do anything is the way we do everything. When it comes to leadership and management, we tend to lead and manage in a paradigm dictated by our professional or vocational expertise—our worldview, if you like. For example… Scientists manage...
by DavidFraser | Dec 8, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
It’s management. They say the best leaders are the ones who develop the most leaders, not the most followers. If we want to lead—as opposed to manage—we mustn’t control everything, because then there’s no opportunity for others to exercise their initiative and grow...
by DavidFraser | Aug 25, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
We tend to think of leadership in the context of leading teams, at least in connection with work we do. But it isn’t necessarily so. Yes, a leader’s role is often to build the necessary relationships with and amongst the members of a formally-constituted team in order...
by DavidFraser | May 2, 2014 | Change, Leadership, Organizational Development
In program and project management, people talk about “straightening out the program,” meaning to set it on an orderly basis, with dependencies between one task and another, and resource availability in the face of constraints, properly recognised. Without that...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2014 | Change, Leadership
In the dictionary it does, of course. And perhaps in real life too. Certainly the two things are closely tied up with each other. Is the need for leadership prompted by external change, or should we initiate internal change before the external world forces it upon us?...
