Everyday we wake up, get to work, and try to get something done that moves us forward in our lives. At work and at home, there’s so much to do, and it all seems way harder than it needs to be. Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama introduces The Four Leadership Motions™, a deceptively simple set of behaviors for everyday leaders to align teams and make meaningful progress quickly.
We’re glad to see you! This is leadership empathy and practical support, a few decades in the making. From the Navy Seals to P&G and countless startups, we’ve seen all sorts of challenges (including more than a few we made ourselves). We hope this helps.
— Janice & Jason Fraser
Take a minute to get really clear about where we are now, and what makes this moment challenging. If I’m in Miami and you’re in Denver, we can’t use the same driving directions to get to Albuquerque. When we know where we’re starting from, we have a chance of making it to our destination.
Involving the right people in effective ways is not a straightforward job, and bringing people in will have its own complications. However, the right people bring ideas, knowledge, and decision-making power, augmenting our memory and processing speed. With the right people, we can take faster, more appropriate actions.
Planning is great, but plans are fallible when confronted with real life. To find flexibility and greater success, we must place more value on the outcome than we do on our plans, deliverables, and activities. This makes room to course correct when circumstances unfold unpredictably (as they always seem to).
By fretting too much over the “right” decision, going for consensus, and revisiting decisions after the fact, decision-making is a huge time-waster. The fix is simple—just change the standard: Decisions don’t need to be “right” (how would you know, anyway?), they just need to move us forward. We don’t all need to love it, but everyone has to be able to live with it.
A modern take on leadership that really helps!
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The effective easiness you were looking for
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Make an impact with empathy and authenticity
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A modern take on leadership that really helps! ••• The effective easiness you were looking for ••• Make an impact with empathy and authenticity •••
Together, Janice and Jason Fraser have coached hundreds of teams and delivered their workshops and talks to conferences and organizations around the world. Their influence has been felt in startups, federal governments, non-profits, mom-and-pop shops, venture firms, and top business schools including Kellogg, Haas, Harvard, and Stanford.
Janice built a storied career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives. Her exuberant big-stage keynotes and practical, empathetic brown-bag talks have become cult favorites. Her hobbies include healing generational trauma, challenging the patriarchy, and icing migraines.
Jason leads a team at VMware of more than sixty product managers and designers who work with the Department of Defense and other government clients to build mission-critical software. He can say “thank you” in more than twenty languages, holds a fifth-degree black belt in Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu, and has published more than 1,600 chocolate reviews on Twitter and Instagram.
Jason and Janice split their time between San Francisco and Minneapolis, where they live with a derpy dog, a bitter cat, and a tall college student.
