David Fraser
"Effects immediate and dramatic change in personal and organisational performance"
One philosophy of change in organisations starts from an assumption that structures, processes and systems are largely fixed at the outset—frozen, if you like. The approach then is to unfreeze the …
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Which is the best way of running organisations? Answer: Neither. We need both, if we want the best results and an engaged team. Top-down for direction and accountability, bottom-up for energy and …
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 …
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 …
Have you noticed... Spend any time at all around a group of people, especially a large group of people or a big organisation, with at least some cohesion, genuine purpose, and shared values—in other …
