Malcolm passed away at the end of April.
'Quick', is the first word I would think of for Calum. He was a lad from Northumberland, that moved down to the bombed out London of the fifties. He played on the rubble, and ran riot. Discovered Jazz, and took advantage of the vinyl produced, and the venues to listen. He had diverse jobs - as a fisherman on Trawlers and later on larger cargo and tankers, where he earned the first part of his aka Calum da (Malcolm the Dark, due to a shook of black hair and beard, quite different to the bald grey haired smooth faced bloke I met). Somewhere along the line he studied Psychology, and spent his mid-life working for large companys in HR & PR. He ended up creating his own companies with friends he met in commerce, kindred spirits, again I believe in Specialised HR and PR. I don't know if he coined the phrase but he considered himself a 'PeopleSmith', and together with his director colleagues....I will attempt to put what they did into a nutshell - They tried to find systems/concepts which would help people understand themselves and the other people in their companies....I think Malcolm was always thinking about 'how things happen'....and always trying to hone and pass on knowledge and experience; trying to improve things. He could certainly talk - looking back through his emails [which I would like to quote but are too staccato and full of high-octane swearing]they are so full of ideas and left field humour, routing out ironies.On the R3forum he had a style, a turn of phrase, good at the inventing of a phrase, and the manipulation of a phrase. I miss him, he encouraged and supported me behind the scenes....I loved the way he talked and the way he wrote and linked to eclectic 'stuff', and generally on the money when it came to summing up 'stuff' and 'knowing people'.. For me he was wavering on the unique. Rest in Peace Malcolm , you have had a tough few years. Sorrow to his partner Linda, his children, friends and those who looked after him through trying times.
Tim
<"I am such an abstract person, in a body that is ageing and slowing …. In an earlier existence I would have been a brewer, a chemist, a cook – mixing stuff … do it with ideas now, wracking myself to get a complex thought straight, really like it and it will flow, just have to squeeze all the fear out …">>
'Quick', is the first word I would think of for Calum. He was a lad from Northumberland, that moved down to the bombed out London of the fifties. He played on the rubble, and ran riot. Discovered Jazz, and took advantage of the vinyl produced, and the venues to listen. He had diverse jobs - as a fisherman on Trawlers and later on larger cargo and tankers, where he earned the first part of his aka Calum da (Malcolm the Dark, due to a shook of black hair and beard, quite different to the bald grey haired smooth faced bloke I met). Somewhere along the line he studied Psychology, and spent his mid-life working for large companys in HR & PR. He ended up creating his own companies with friends he met in commerce, kindred spirits, again I believe in Specialised HR and PR. I don't know if he coined the phrase but he considered himself a 'PeopleSmith', and together with his director colleagues....I will attempt to put what they did into a nutshell - They tried to find systems/concepts which would help people understand themselves and the other people in their companies....I think Malcolm was always thinking about 'how things happen'....and always trying to hone and pass on knowledge and experience; trying to improve things. He could certainly talk - looking back through his emails [which I would like to quote but are too staccato and full of high-octane swearing]they are so full of ideas and left field humour, routing out ironies.On the R3forum he had a style, a turn of phrase, good at the inventing of a phrase, and the manipulation of a phrase. I miss him, he encouraged and supported me behind the scenes....I loved the way he talked and the way he wrote and linked to eclectic 'stuff', and generally on the money when it came to summing up 'stuff' and 'knowing people'.. For me he was wavering on the unique. Rest in Peace Malcolm , you have had a tough few years. Sorrow to his partner Linda, his children, friends and those who looked after him through trying times.
Tim
<"I am such an abstract person, in a body that is ageing and slowing …. In an earlier existence I would have been a brewer, a chemist, a cook – mixing stuff … do it with ideas now, wracking myself to get a complex thought straight, really like it and it will flow, just have to squeeze all the fear out …">>
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