Author: Richard Ferguson
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Business Lessons Learned from Lambing
We all have our passions – what is yours? What is it that brings a smile, creates energy, momentum and a drive to overcome obstacles? For me it is Ferguson Farm and my alter ego Farmer Ferguson; I expect that we all share the same challenge – finding the time, space and opportunity to indulge…
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Are you an Additional?
I was trawling the wonderful TED.com website the other day and came across an interesting interview with Larry Page from Google; he shared his views on a series of topics and the video itself is well worth a watch. However, a concept and a word jumped out which tickled my interest – “additionality”. If you…
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Breaking down Barriers
Have you ever experienced the frustration of working across organisational silos where colleagues invest time and effort in protecting their space, their knowledge and their power to the detriment of the results produced? Well read on and see if my recent trip up Kilimanjaro can shed some light on the challenge. As a small boy…
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Who are \’they\’ and when is \’when\’?
I was in an organisation recently and part of a conversation about the future of the business when someone used the dreaded \”t\” word……… \’they\’. \”If \’they\’ would only allow us to get on and do our jobs we would be much more successful\” was the general gist. Now I have helped many functions and organisations with…
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Conversations are key
Have you seen the latest product launch from Birds Eye called Mashtags? They\’re made from British potatoes and feature shapes including \’the iconic hashtag, @ symbols and emoticons\’. This got me thinking on a number of fronts and I found it really interesting. Firstly, with two young daughters born in 2000 and beyond, clearly part…
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Change starts here
Making the decision to change is hard because it requires us to overcome inertia. Inertia that has a significant gravity associated through all the historic and valid associations which have stood you in good stead for so long. I strongly believe that the decision is the hard part, dealing with the implications may be tough…