David Fraser
"Effects immediate and dramatic change in personal and organisational performance"
If we hope to have influence—to stimulate something better happening—we have to put ourselves out there to be judged. If we don't, nobody will know we have anything to offer and nothing different …
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Inertia is usually better resourced than change—better staffed, better financed, and better organised. It's usually easier to get paid to do something that reinforces the status quo than it is to do …
W. Edwards Deming said "Help must come from outside because a system is not capable of understanding itself." In other words, it can be hard to see the wood for the trees. This is true whether we're …
If we decide, for whatever reason, to be interested in detail rather than the big picture, for example, or possibilities rather than procedures, and we find that that (unconscious) choice works for …
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With sufficient power and authority, we can make something different happen. We can get an organisation to produce different results. We can make people comply. But that isn’t really …
We may dismiss certain kinds of learning... Now it could be that the learning is plain wrong. Or... It could be that we don’t like the implications. One way, we’re right; the other, we’re making a …
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