Inspirational message – Modern Butlers

The Modern Butlers’ Journal, February 2020, Message from the Chairman

Message from the Chairman

by Steven Ferry

So we come to another leap year, one that you could celebrate perhaps with the Leap Year cocktail Mr. Vargas covers in his column this month.

Anyone into the significance of numbers might be impressed with 20:20 pm on the 20th of February, 2020. Such moments do not come around very often and I will be sure to enjoy that Leap Year drink at that particular time, at my own birthday bash. Would that I were celebrating my 20th, but alas, that particular moment has passed 🙂

On the subject of fascination with numbers and to end on a more humorous note, I leave you with a Far Side cartoon from Gary Larson, who understood the value of housekeepers.

It is of note that Mr. Einstein was known for keeping his desk cluttered, so one might assume he had no housekeeper. Or that he would not let her near his study. Or that he might have come by the theory of relativity through Mileva Einstein-Maric, his first wife and a fellow mathematics and physics student, as they theorized over dinner about the relative merits of keeping desks uncluttered, or not. Etc.

The Institute is dedicated to raising service standards by broadly disseminating the mindset and superior service expertise of that time-honored, quintessential service provider, the British Butler, updated with modern people- skills, and adapted to the needs of modern employers and guests in staffed homes, luxury hotels, resorts, spas, retirement communities, jets, yachts & cruise ships around the world.

Message from the Chairman

by Steven Ferry

In a world characterized increasingly by discourteous and divisive behaviour toward others based on unwavering ideas about how bad they are, it is probably a good idea to sit and look at these “evil people” until one has found twenty things that one has in common with them.

One thing I have found in the rather many decades I have been bouncing around this planet, is that nobody is quite as bad as we may think they are, or they are painted by others.

Let this be the tone for the year 2020!

The Institute is dedicated to raising service standards by broadly disseminating the mindset and superior service expertise of that time-honored, quintessential service provider, the British Butler, updated with modern people- skills, and adapted to the needs of modern employers and guests in staffed homes, luxury hotels, resorts, spas, retirement communities, jets, yachts & cruise ships around the world.