by DavidFraser | Jan 9, 2017 | Business, Leadership, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
How often do you review your goals (assuming you set some in the first place, of course)? Obviously, it’s traditional to set personal goals at the turn of the year and it’s a good idea. It’s a good time to do it too, because we need a bit of downtime to reflect on...
by DavidFraser | Jun 12, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
A reminder of something simple and perhaps basic but really important, which has certainly helped me… To succeed, yes, we need a vision and a purpose and goals and priorities and all that. But when we’re stuck; when we’re down, we sometimes can’t do any of it....
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 | May 15, 2013 | Change, Personal Mastery
Before we can create something in reality, we must create it in our mind. So developing a personal vision is a vital step in achieving something that didn’t exist before. How clear and detailed does our vision need to be? Clear and detailed enough that if it showed...
by DavidFraser | Apr 4, 2012 | Change, Energy, Leadership, Learning, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Systems, Wisdom
We’re pretty used to being clear about what we want, what our vision is—clear enough that if it showed up, we’d recognize it. But what if we can’t get to that straightaway? That’s where “creative tension” comes in. Creative tension is what Peter Senge (author of...
