Simple Thinking is a straight forward guide to personal success that helps people strip back life’s complexities and focus on what they want to achieve.
Don’t grow up! New book shows a youthful mind is key to finding success
Simple Thinking is a straight forward guide to personal success that helps people strip back life’s complexities and focus on what they want to achieve. As peer pressure, others’ expectations and perceptions of success cloud our judgement, the book asks simple questions to encourage readers to identify their goals and define their own version of success.
Simple Thinking is written by Richard Gerver, a former teacher and now adviser on performance, change and leadership to some of the most high profile organisations in business, entertainment and sport. Using his unique insights, he demonstrates how many of the innate abilities observed in children are also prevalent in highly successful people.
Simple Thinking explores how much of our learning as adults, our fixation with logic and the trap of success, can often prove a disadvantage. It shows how behviours such as curiosity, creativity and collaboration, which come so naturally to children, can be encouraged to realise personal and professional goals.
This book will help readers:
- Live and act with resiliency, authenticity and passion
- Learn to trust their instincts and see the world through new eyes
- Declutter their mind, streamline their day and be successful at life
Based on the experience of a primary school teacher, who went on to work with world leaders, Olympic coaches even meet the Dalai Lama, the book is packed with simple wisdom, personal stories and practical tips that make success accessible.
“This new book by the remarkable Richard Gerver packs in more of that rarest commodity, common sense, than most of us encounter in a lifetime. There is so much of real value here that just one reading is nothing like enough. I will be returning to it again and again, for reassurance as well as inspiration. It is a boon in waiting.” (Duke of Devonshire)
About the author
Richard Gerver, a former school principal and advisor to the UK Government, has taken innovation by storm and is now regarded as one of the most original and authentic thinkers around human leadership and organisational transformation in the world. He has been named UK Business Speaker of the Year and has spoken at both TED and RSA events.
Cited by Sir Ken Robinson as the very embodiment of his high-thinking on unleashing creativity and human potential, Richard Gerver's transformative approach to leading change and innovation has been embraced by business and educational organisations all over the world.
Gerver works with organisations at the forefront of global innovation and excellence, including Microsoft, Deloitte, Google, TUI, Morgan Stanley, Visa, Puig, Telefonica and Technicolor. He has also worked with some of the world's most iconic retail organisations, including Harrods in London. His unique experience and insight into realising human potential also sees him working in elite sport, with Olympic and Paralympic coaches, EPL Soccer coaches, England Golf and professional cricket teams. He is currently working in the music industry with Universal and Decca, helping them build capacity for dramatic yet sustainable change in a fast moving market
He still works in Education globally and is recognised as one of the most significant voices in the field. His first book, Creating Tomorrow’s Schools Today, has become a seminal text around the world for those engaged in the transformation of education. His reach goes from Universities through to policy makers and school leadership. He recently provided consultation to the Hilary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign team.
Gerver's unique insight into our development, from infants to adults, helps us to understand the nature of our personal and professional responses to risk, change, creativity and development. His ability to connect experiences across many seemingly different environments helps people to expand their thinking and their perception of their potential.
With his trademark humour and insight, Gerver shares his experience of cultural and organisational transformation, human development and management with groups around the world. Thanks to his story and his authentic first-hand experiences, Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation.
Follow: @richardgerver
Contact the publicist:
Ashton Bainbridge
Publicist, Professional Development
abainbridg@wiley.com
+44 (0) 1243 770671