Paper summary: The Consequences of Diversity in Multidisciplinary Work Teams
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View ArticlePitch deck examples
Here are some pitch deck examples which might be useful for inspiration; Apologies if links are broken. http://bestpitchdecks.com/ https://piktochart.com/blog/startup-pitch-decks-what-you-can-learn/...
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Review: Eric Thomas London 2019.
Dr Eric Thomas, US motivational speaker, speaking at Sofitel Heathrow, London (2019) Ever since I watched Eric Thomas’ most famous Youtube viral hit video, “As bad as you want to breathe” (Vimeo...
View ArticleDon’t sell hair extensions, sell confidence
At a recent conference, someone asked a host about their business where they sold hair extensions via e-commerce and wanted to know how to improve sales, business and get more customers. At first, I...
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John Wick 3: Review
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Review: 6 months to 6 figures
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Review: Entrepreneur’s blueprint to massive success
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View ArticleMDI – A retrospective
Some time ago I wanted to write an article to retrospectively review my time on the 2018 Multidisciplinary innovation masters at Northumbria University; however I never seemed to have the time. I...
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Small take: The issue of framing and needs hierarchy in climate change messaging
There are a number of big challenges, wicked problems, call it them what you will. Whether it’s the threat of automation, increasing skills needs from corporations, ageing societies, and others....
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Terminator franchise: A lost cause?
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View ArticleWhat is Jackie Chan’s best movie?
Back in the early 90s, Channel 4 put on a series of Jackie Chan and other Hong Kong action movies. I remember watching them, throughly enjoying Police Story, Armour of God and Wheels on Meals. This...
View ArticleThe traditional small classroom speaker audience relationship must change
Having attended a small business festival’s workshops, where people could attend small classroom like rooms and listen to speakers, I realised that I really don’t like classroom locations where the...
View ArticleInnovation is hard to sell, but is necessary for growth
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View Article5-G, trees and Occam’s razor
So I overheard a conversation recently where someone was connecting the dots between the increase felling of trees and the creation of a 5-G network; the idea being that 5-G’s biggest issue is that...
View ArticleIs the goal of service design in the public sector to get to more yeses?
Over the past two or so years the public sector has seen an increase in service designers. One only needs to look at the influx of service designers in Leeds and other areas where they are looking at...
View ArticleSwift CoreData is still painful to use
Recently I decided to try and learn a bit of Core data from the ground up. I’m not familiar with all the aspects of Core Data, however, since starting to program with Core Data I remembered why I...
View ArticleHow SwiftUI can change the way you write views
I’ve been experimenting recently with SwiftUI, whilst I’m not great at it; I really appreciate the fact that its now much easier to layout views without all the un-necessary constraints which usually...
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Single responsibility can be a real headache!
The trade of keeping it simple stupid vs keeping code clean for Swift mobile apps Single responsibility apps are a headache to code, to remember, to even parse visually; when it comes to simple apps —...
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Charlies Angels (2019) – Review
Charlies Angles (2019) , Directed by Elizabeth Banks. Link: IMDB Charlies Angels (2019), directed by Elizabeth Banks, was an action reboot / remake of the 1970s TV classic of the same name and a...
View ArticleMovies where the action hero is above the material makes me want to switch it...
I’m not exactly sure who started this trend, but I’m not a fan of action films where the hero seems to be above the material he/she is in. I’m talking about movies where the hero is talking out of the...
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