by DavidFraser | Dec 15, 2014 | Relationship Skills
It’s surprising, in a way, how little we know of our own power—our power to impact on other people. We tend not to realise just how impactful we can be. We say things with full force when actually something more measured would meet less resistance, cause less hurt,...
by DavidFraser | Oct 20, 2014 | Collaboration, Relationship Skills
Everyone seems to want autonomy at the moment—well, perhaps not quite everybody. The trouble is… Complete autonomy means no influence. If we’re serious about collaboration, we have to share power. We have to accept we won’t get our way on everything. If we want...
by DavidFraser | Sep 4, 2013 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
It’s you. It’s you that needs to take action, that is. Or it might be. You see… You might be the one best-placed, even if you feel inadequately prepared. Sometimes you don’t notice you’re closest. You stand back. You think someone else...
by DavidFraser | Mar 25, 2013 | Change, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
We don’t laugh at the majority, because the majority has power. And we don’t laugh at power, because it’s dangerous. It might throw us out. But we do laugh at minorities, because minorities are weak. And we do laugh at weakness because it’s...
by DavidFraser | Aug 10, 2012 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Watching interviews with Gold Medal winners and other Olympic high performers, it’s striking how most of them seem thoroughly pleasant and even ordinary people – very far from the sometime stereotype of winner as warrior. In short, they are profoundly...
