Scribble Talk Episode 57 - Mark Taylor (Child prodigy in Arts, 1980s television celebrity star, Reflective practitioner, people pictures and patterns, Be here now, choose your boss, leadership masterclass, Shipley UK Managing Director)
- Author
- Baskar Sundaram, Mark Taylor and Ashley Kayes
- Published
- Wed 19 Aug 2020
- Episode Link
- https://baachuscribble.com/episode-57-mark-taylor/
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Mark Taylor is Managing Director and a Founder Member of Shipley UK. Having studied Electronic Engineering with Medical Electronics, Mark embarked on a generalist journey spanning 15 years in medical equipment manufacturing, aerospace and defence. He held roles in production engineering, design engineering, engineering consultancy and business winning. Mark pursued his practical enthusiasm for lifelong learning at Nottingham Trent University where he was Course Leader for an Executive MBA Course and subsequently as Head of Training for Linklaters, an international Law Firm.
During his 19 years with Shipley, Mark has been lucky to work with inspiring clients for whom he has designed multinational business winning curriculum’s and delivered over 500 workshops. Always, Mark’s aim is to enthuse specialists from all disciplines to become involved in business winning and to help them develop the skills to do so.
Mark is from Bermondsey and now lives in Worcester with his super wife, sceptical children and a supercilious cat.
The books I mentioned:
Getting Things Done. David Allen. Piatkus. 2001
- Liberation Management. Tom Peters. Pan Books. 1992
- Tom Peters is here and still talking about how kindness is more important than shareholder value : https://tompeters.com/
- Body and Soul. Anita Roddick. Ebury Press. 1991
- To Sell is Human. Daniel Pink, Canon Gate . 2014
Reflective Practice
- The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Donald A. Schön (Arena) 1991
The poem on Kindness
Steve Jobs Stanford Speech
Didn’t mention but inspiring:
- Peter Drucker. The Essential Drucker. Butterworth Heinemann. 2007
Didn’t mention but injects some humour into management thinking:
- Don’t be Needy be Succeedy. The A to Zee of Motivitality. L. Vaughan Spencer (aka : Neil Mullarkey of the Comedy Store. London). Profile Books. 2008
