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	<title>Mike Stevenson &#187; Mike Stevenson</title>
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		<title>New Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I have a new and improved blog over thinktastic.co.uk/blog which I will be updating on a very regular basis, please update your bookmarks or subscribe to the RSS, as this blog is no longer in use.
Read more this way »
Many Thanks
Mike Stevenson
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		<title>TIME TO REWARD SUCCESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[change communications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everyday bears rich fruit. In fact, there are days – too many to count – when you feel bruised and battered by events. Days when nothing seems to go right, from the stubbed toe to the burnt toast to the parking ticket planted on your car windscreen. I can think of many such days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EDINBURGH &#8211; CITY OF OPPORTUNITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Igniting our democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quiet Sunday breakfast a few days ago turned into an extended brunch as friends old and new joined my ever-expanding table. Among my guests was Claudia, a very impressive Portuguese lady whose Edinburgh Guide book I bought about nine months ago. The book was something new and exciting – different because it was written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THINK BIG NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Exciting times]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in exciting times
Forget the media and the doomsayers, we live in exciting times and there are countless opportunities to do things differently, better and more economically. 
This is a time for fresh ideas and new beginnings. Those who grasp them will prosper. Innovation must be constant because the world around us constantly innovates
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Risk taking is in our blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a small child I fell off a 30ft high terrace in northern Pakistan, dismounted a horse headfirst in Lahore, was pulled back from climbing overboard an ocean liner, had to be coaxed in from the window sill of a fourth floor tenement window and permanently carried hundreds of cuts and bruises. 
Risk taking – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LET&#8217;S LIFT THE MOOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People crave fun and lightness.]]></description>
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		<title>LET’S FOCUS ON THE LIGHT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Scotland, we have an unfortunate habit of representing even the sunniest of days as a prelude to darkness. “Aye, it’ll rain tomorrow” or “That’ll be our summer.” How often I have heard these sentiments. We can’t control the weather so let’s learn to live with it and while we’re at it, thank our lucky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LET’S MAKE THINGS HAPPEN – 31.10.07</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never subscribed to the &#8220;best small country in the world&#8221; line. Why?  Because it seems to do what we specialise in – belittle ourselves. Why is every positive statement so often qualified by a diminishing one? Small? Yes, we are in relative terms, but let’s not flag that up unless we really use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A SUNNIER DISPOSITION IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS – 30.07.07</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two conversations during the past fortnight have sparked this plea. One was in Burnley, East Lancashire when a student mentioned to me that she had never been to Scotland. “You must visit”, was my hospitable suggestion. “But it’s very cold up there isn’t it?” she asked. Now there may be the occasional variation in temperature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WE NEED ‘NEET’ SOLUTIONS AND THAT’S JUST THE START? &#8211; 20.07.2007</title>
		<link>http://www.designlinks.co.uk/blog/we-need-neet-solutions-and-thats-just-the-start-20072007</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember Gordon Brown, our new Prime Minister, as a gangling teenager slouched against a playground wall. It was during the early to mid-sixties, we were both pupils at Kirkcaldy High School and yet our paths rarely crossed. We belonged to different cultures within the school – I, desperate for an escape to freedom and [...]]]></description>
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