by DavidFraser | Dec 22, 2014 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Development, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
There’s no such thing as the right question, of course, but some enquiries contribute more to moving things on than others. It’s worth thinking about… What’s your intention when you ask a question – helping things along in the direction...
by DavidFraser | Apr 12, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
It’s striking how some organizations think first of the scale required to roll something new out to the workforce at large—a daunting and expensive undertaking. And yet often the same effect can be achieved with the leadership group attending thoroughly to their own...
by DavidFraser | Mar 29, 2013 | Change, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
Well, one of the troubles with profiling… In forming teams, it’s a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be comfortable at first. So we reach for the psychometric tests—how...
by DavidFraser | May 2, 2012 | Leadership, Organizational Learning, Personal Mastery, Systems
The meeting starts in the late afternoon—to prepare for the big one the following day. The purpose is to “spin” the numbers to get the outcome we want in the meeting tomorrow; to construct an argument based on the data to influence the other side; to get them to agree...
by DavidFraser | May 1, 2012 | Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s seems a clever idea – switching off the date stamp on your blog posts. That way you can tweet about them later and readers won’t realize they’re not new. Well, most of them won’t… The audience respond appreciatively to this...
