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What’s in a name?
I’ve finally changed my twitter handle from @mikeatgarlik to @iconicshift. If you were following me as @mikeatgarlik you are now apparently automatically following @iconicshift. The change in name...
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Game Changers
When you have spent your career challenging entrenched incumbents (in Banking with Firstdirect and Egg, Telecoms with Mercury and Identity Protection with Garlik), you learn to love game changing...
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Iconic Thinking
Mike Harris invites you to join him for a seminar at the Google Campus, 5 Bonhill St EC2A 4BX on Wednesday, 25 July 2012 from 17:00 to 20:30 where he will share the principles he used to build three...
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Al Lukies and the mindset of a winner
Al Lukies is a friend of mine. He is the CEO and founder of Monitise plc which has become a global leader in mobile banking and mobile payments. He was the only business man mentioned in the Prime...
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The last word on leadership
Leadership is about making something new and different happen, something that simply wouldn’t happen without you. You don’t have to have people working for you to be a leader. You can be working on...
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Hidden Gems: No 1 Kemi Laniyan
I wanted to follow up my previous post on leadership with a request. Let me give you some context first. As I said in my last post I have set myself a challenge of discovering and mentoring 100 leaders...
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What do you value most about women?
When I told my friends I was on an all male panel at the world’s most prestigious women’s networking event – Women , Inspiration, Enterprise (WIE) – in London on 8th March and that the 6 of us were...
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Ground Breaking Innovation
Tim Thorne and I worked together at RBS to create the Group Innovation function. He was Innovation Director and I was the part-time Chairman of the Innovation Board to which Tim reported. It wasn’t...
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Why smart design of small living spaces could change the world
I’m mentoring Suzannah Bartlett who specializes in the design of small living spaces. With the rapidly increasing urbanization of the global population an increasing number of people are living in...
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Vince Cable interviewed by Miti Ampoma and talking a lot of sense about SMEs
Miti Ampoma has been one of the stand out success stories of the 2013 IconicShift mentoring intake. She has developed a growing reputation in her field and is a sought after speaker, consultant and...
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The Future of Banking in a 100 words
I recently had the privilege of giving a keynote address at an Islamic Enterprise conference. I share HRH the Prince of Wales view that the traditional economic principles of Islamic Business and...
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