Thinking

Eat, Pray, Love

by David Ferrers

As this is a short week in terms of blogging I decided that I would just let you know what I have been reading lately and give you an idea of what you might get from reading these books. The first book on my list is Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for [...]

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Self-Gratification

by David Ferrers

I regard it as self-gratification when we do not take the trouble to take charge of our thoughts and feelings. As my guru Duncan McColl said to me so often: “if you do not take charge of your mind other people and events will do it for you.” It is true that one of the [...]

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Do You Do What Good Leaders Do?

by David Ferrers

Good leadership does not just happen. It is the result of the leaders making a clinical study of the art of leadership. To become a great leader you need to study the art of leadership, to read, to watch the behaviour of great leaders, to think about the principles which dictate the behaviour of outstanding [...]

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How Outstanding Leaders Train Their Minds

by David Ferrers

Outstanding leaders train their minds. Why? Because as Mao Zedong said: “if I could concentrate on one single item for an entire minute I could conquer the world.” He understood the need to focus. You learn to focus by practicing, by repeatedly doing the same thing. You learn focus in exactly the same way as [...]

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Why Outstanding Leaders Implement Kaizen

by David Ferrers

From 1945 to 1948 General Douglas MacArthur was the virtual ruler of Japan. He was so worried about the behaviour of the demoralised people and their failure to rebuild their industrial base that he called for help from Business Process Managers from the USA. Amongst the most influential of the US imports was William Edwards [...]

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How to Win Promotion No.1 – Learning

by David Ferrers

The common problem for all managers is time. “How do I create sufficient time to do everything I have to do each day?” The fact is that we all work with a degree of inefficiency, we spend too much time on the tasks we enjoy and insufficient on our “daily disciplines”. People, from all walks [...]

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How Outstanding Leaders Become Outstanding Thinkers

by David Ferrers

Outstanding leaders are good thinkers. They do not simply react to situations, they pause and work things out. But, how do you do that? How does the process of thinking work? Thinking starts with interrogation. When we encounter a problem or issue like; something goes wrong with a project we are managing, or we have [...]

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