Author Archives: mike

Moved on from Blogging to Podcasting

Posted on December 4, 2015 by mike

In the summer of ’14 I moved on from the written word to the spoken word … since when a lot have been spoken by me and dozens of the leading lights in the London Fintech Revolution. Check it out … Continue reading →

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My Blog Has Moved…

Posted on March 22, 2014 by mike

Recent posts here have been cross-posted from my two more focused blogs … to save a bunch of hassle and to ensure you see which you prefer (or both 🙂 … please check out: The Tao of Business Development blog … Continue reading →

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Balance Dreaming, Thinking & Doing – your Inner Visionary, Manager, & Soldier

Posted on March 14, 2014 by mike

This post first appeared on my companion site Transformational Tools for Body Energy and Mind I’ve written this one for me lol – as it’s something I am thinking through – but also importantly for assorted friends for whom this … Continue reading →

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How does your Profession relate to Form and Emptiness?

Posted on March 8, 2014 by mike

This post first appeared on my companion site Transformational Tools for Body Energy and Mind My last article – Form, Patterns, Emptiness and Stuckness – on the spectrum from crystal to gas, from frozen form to emptiness led to some … Continue reading →

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Form, Patterns, Emptiness and Stuckness

Posted on March 2, 2014 by mike

This post first appeared on my companion site Transformational Tools for Body Energy and Mind This one isn’t a pot-boiler.  However it’s utterly profound and utterly a meta-pattern about life and next to every tool in TTEM.  We can never … Continue reading →

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How to be English and do Marketing

Posted on March 2, 2014 by mike

This post was first published on my companion site The Tao of Business Development Any English (or probably Brit for that matter, although the periphery always had to be better at staking its claim) of a certain age certainly has … Continue reading →

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The World Of Work Has Changed Forever

Posted on September 30, 2013 by mike

This post was first published on my companion site The Tao of Business Development I was networking around recently and catching up with chums old and new.  The one thing that struck me was that the world of work was proving … Continue reading →

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Antipatterns: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies

Posted on April 25, 2013 by mike

A little while back I was working somewhere, where, if you were from Mars and asked to work out how people were remunerated, you would probably conclude that the amount of sweat people produced in a day was measured and … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot and Antoni Gaudi

Posted on June 18, 2012 by mike

There are some things that have to be experienced. Being at sea. Being in a desert. Seeing Mount Everest (for real – not a picture). In a similar way the buidings of Antoni Gaudi the doyenne of Catalan Modernism, Barcelona’s … Continue reading →

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If you are annoying some people you must be onto something!

Posted on May 10, 2012 by mike

I generally think of annoying people as A Bad Thing. I recall reading some time back about the hugely irritating series of GoCompare adverts with the cod opera singer. As I recall something like 80% of people find this highly … Continue reading →

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