{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Nicholas Bate","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/HG21C","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"88713","username":"HG21C","bio":"Nicholas Bate\n\nAuthor, speaker, consultant, and occasional artist.\n\nFor three decades, Nicholas Bate has been helping individuals unlock their potential both professionally and personally. As founder of Strategic Edge Ltd, he has worked with industry leaders including Microsoft, Google, Ocado, the BBC, Marks and Spencer, HM Government, and Saatchi & Saatchi, delivering transformative results across the UK, Continental Europe, Australasia, and the USA.\n\nHis pioneering programs, Personal Excellence, Instant MBA, Do What You Want, and Brilliant at the Basics of Selling, have redefined how thousands approach effectiveness and success. What sets Nicholas apart is his ability to distill complex business principles into actionable insights that create lasting change.\n\nNicholas is a prolific writer whose daily business reflections have built a global following. His extensive archive of free resources continues to inspire entrepreneurs, executives, and individuals seeking practical wisdom for navigating today’s challenges. His business books, including the highly relevant Do What You Want and How To Beat ChatGPT are on Amazon Kindle.\n\nHe is on Instagram @HunterGatherer21C\n\nFiction Portfolio\n\nNicholas brings the same sharp insight to storytelling that defines his business work:\n\nThe Molly Trilogy\n* Meet Molly\n* Molly and The Isle of Kasta\n* Molly and Ben\n\nStandalone Novels\n* Bram, A Spy Story\n* Love, Life and Legacy 1: a collection of three short stories\n* Pierre Lambert, Detective\n\nAll are available instantly on Amazon Kindle\n\nDrop him a line at Nicholas.bate@strategicedge.co.uk","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":0,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Nicholas Bate","url":"https://HG21C.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ecc116c5df923f8e1aed0e919bc754e0?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png"},"items":[{"id":"94022127","content_html":"

What are you reading this summer?

\n

Pierre Lambert, Detective.

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In The Pipeline Update

\n

This September, Companion Series works on (1) productivity (2) the MBA and (3) presenting.\nAll three will be budget, kindle, worldwide and not a single word longer than necessary.

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Pilate’s Magician

\n

is out now in paperback, so no excuses.

\n

I read it on publication on kindle: it’s fantastic.

\n

What are you reading this summer?

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Probably my oldest tool of excellence: a forester’s pocket knife found in a muddy pool in The New Forest, Wiltshire when playing as a child.

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The Tools of Excellence

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Instant. Budget. Kindle. Worldwide.

\n

here.

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You Can Do Anything, but You Cannot Do Everything

\n

The essence of productivity is this.

\n

Know what is important to you in life (set your personal compass: career/health/money/relationships/fun/contribution) and what you are trying to achieve at work (get explicit: ask the why and who and when questions).

\n

Then...

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The Bent Fin

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Keiko was the orca who starred in Free Willy. Like most male orcas held in captivity, he developed a bent, collapsed dorsal fin, something seen only rarely in the wild.

\n

Researchers have never claimed the fin had stopped working; they viewed it as a visible sign of an altered life. The proposed...

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Free for 24h

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Instant. Kindle. Worldwide.

\n

Daily MEDS. A strategy for Wellness.

\n

Meet Molly. The one which started the trilogy.

\n

How to Beat ChatGPT and save your career.

\n

Pierre Lambert, the detective novel.

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Daily MEDS, The Powerful Wellness Strategy.

\n

Free for 48h.

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Just 184K\nShort-no-keypad-keyboard.

\n

But all still working many years after it’s launch in 1984.

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Used?

\n

But so often meaningful.

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Now in paperback

\n

Pilates’s Magician.

\n

I read it on kindle. It’s excellent.

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If Steve Jobs were still leading Apple, what secret projects would they be working on?

\n

A true “invisible” AI assistant-not a chatbot, but ambient intelligence woven through every device so seamlessly you never think of it as AI. Jobs would have loathed the current chat-window paradigm. No prompts, no...

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The Morning After ‘Le Fut’

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Why Do We Detest

\n

AI Slop?

\n

Because it lacks soul.

\n

Why Do We Still Love

\n

a Simple Beatles Tune after ALL This Time

\n

Because it’s 100% human soul.

\n

Bear that in mind, each and every day.

\n

Go Be.

\n

Go Be a Little More.

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The Tools of Excellence.

\n

Seventy Devices, Concepts or Strategies which enable Brilliance, Easily.

\n

Kindle. Instant. Budget. Worldwide.

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The Weasel Words of Modern Productivity Theatre

\n

Beware the words and phrases that try to disguise the non-effectiveness of an individual or team. For example, they use ‘urgent’ but you know ‘they forgot to anticipate this’; senior leadership announce that ‘there will be a re-org’, you know that means ‘they...

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Barnes and Noble soon.

\n

Meanwhile it’s available here.

\n

Read it. I loved it.

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Moments

\n

With Patrick.

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The world no longer holds still long enough to be studied.

\n

Companies are no longer static objects you analyse once and understand for a decade.

\n

Consider banking in the UK. For a century, from 1870 to 1970, your local branch ran almost identically: the same teller windows, the same ledgers hardening into...

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The Clickety-Clack and the Heat

\n

Early rails were short and brittle. In the 1790s, cast iron versions, about four feet long, were being bolted down. By 1820, wrought iron had stretched them to fifteen feet. The first steel rails arrived in 1857, and over the following decades, the standard length crept up...

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The world no longer holds still long enough to be studied.

\n

Companies are no longer static objects you analyse once and understand for a decade.

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Consider banking in the UK. For a century, from 1870 to 1970, your local branch ran almost identically: the same teller windows, the same ledgers hardening into...

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Books to Recognise 250 Years

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chosen by Michael Wade.

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How I Use AI, 2 of Many

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While I am writing one of my Companion Series, it has a working title (eg Boost your Productivity). As I write this can change as I realise I can create a better focus or suggestion for the potential future reader/purchaser.

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When I am very close to publication and finalising the...

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The Tools of Excellence

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Instant. Budget. Kindle. Worldwide.

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70 concepts and strategies for brilliance.

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@narrator Hi. Thanks for writing! Just amazon kindle for the moment.

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@chrisfoley Hello Chris. Good to hear from you. Spot on. In my view it’s the ‘new old education’ we need to be providing. It’s more than EQ, emotional intelligence. It’s Human Intelligence which has been way laid over the last thirty years in our excitement with technology. Go well!

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@jeroensangers thank you!

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@annahavron thank you !

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@paulmccafferty Thank you!

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