Latest publications
3D MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION
3D is original management philosophy. It questions UK traditional management structures and proposes revolutionary ideas to replace chains of financial and other complex management layers. 3D aims to produce the best Chief Executive for each organisation.
3D does this through 3-layer management structures, using Professional Managers to focus on customers as central to strategy and planning. 3D integrates conventional organisation departments and provides a realistic method for monitoring everything in a single system.
3D Revolution sets out the week by week route to achieve this in a how to do it plan.
The impact of Covid19 has disrupted conventional structures and communications turning organisations upside down and inside out. That has also released creativity and flexibility. Now is the time to take the opportunity to build on this and review convention to improve how we work forever. 3D provides a way of changing for improved ways of doing business to put customers at the centre and provide what they want in a responsive and direct way. 3D shows how.
I WANT HIM DEAD STRAIGHT - 7th book in the Hairdresser Murder series
Lauren’s latest party sets up her hairdresser friends with Olivia’s visitors and sexual sparks fly. Amidst an explicit tale of physical attraction and exploitation, murder exposes the seamier side of local society. A local businessman is seeking his perfect muse, and another wealthy man is creating a dream opportunity for one of Mirror Images young stylists who is learning how to deal with this adult world. Adult content.
WAR PEACE AND POLITICS - a collection of 14 Poems of varying length and form, considering political issues that have given rise to war, its outcome and the peace, in the first fifteen years or so of the 21st Century.
Mike writes about the key conflicts of the Western world, challenging the political thinking of the day, highlighting the nonsense of political thinking at the time, and raising awareness of the wider context of democracy and the human condition.
Perhaps a little less humorous than some of his other poetry, but always ironic and sharply pertinent in observation, Mike concentrates on the dilemmas, excuses and ironies of negotiation and getting agreement.
NO SHORT CUTS - 6th book in the Hairdresser Murders series
Lauren Canning, hair stylist at Mirror Images in Ross on Wye, receives a dramatic phone call first thing on Monday morning when a client, a banker’s daughter, announces she will commit suicide. During the call Lauren texts Chief Inspector Worcester of the Special Police Unit on her mobile who rushes to the scene. The investigation follows international bankers and money laundering, international drug syndicates, the FBI, and complicated double crosses.
Although no-one is entirely innocent the nearly innocents are drawn into the high level intrigue of cut throat greed and have to try to survive when they don’t know from where the next danger is coming. Trust is in short supply and there are no short cuts for Chief Inspector Worcester and his unit.
SKIBBEREENS - THE CRIME VOLUME
Eva Cyclone, a strikingly beautiful hairdresser joins Fringes Salon in Ross on Wye but soon her landlord becomes obsessed with her and turns stalker. A trainee hairdresser has already been murdered in a car park in Ross and local hairdressers are worried. Lauren Canning from Mirror Images vows to help Eva but it soon emerges that Eva has come to Ross from France via New York to escape the attentions of other obsessive men. They are tied up with drug dealing and money laundering and Eva knows at least one of them is a security agent. To complicate things Eva’s family background is colourful and there is a history of the attentions of State Security Services.
Meanwhile Chief Inspector Worcester is tasked by his Chief Constable with dealing with an unwanted CIA agent who has turned up on their patch. Soon there are several stalkers, each being tracked by various State Security Agents, descending on Ross from Russia, France, and the USA in search of Eva. Then the landlord stalker is found dead in his car shortly after being outed by a group of Ross hairdressers organised by Lauren. Together with Chief Inspector Worcester the hairdressers led by Lauren need to find a way to deal with the stalkers and take on the international spies.
What people are saying about book number 5 in the Hairdresser Murders series:-
‘Young women outing sex pests and spies on the streets of a small English market town; how could this be any more up to date?’
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