December 7, 2011
Business seems forever to be a two-sided coin. When we think everything is going well, something proves us wrong. Then, when it’s all doom and gloom comes the flip and it takes just one (or two) effervescent Kiwi entrepreneurs to boost...
November 29, 2011
Well the election is over and now the fun begins. It wasn’t hard to predict a National win even though coalition partner(s) are still needed.
November 25, 2011
Election Day is almost on us and it is has been my belief from the outset, or more accurately, since National was re-elected to office three years ago, that unless John Key and his party made some catastrophic error of judgment, National would be...
November 1, 2011
Electioneering has started in earnest but there is a difference between debate and just exchanging accusations or spouting manifesto statements which stop short of any real discussion.
August 9, 2011
The past couple of years have been tough on many businesses. Some have really struggled but others have explored ways to stimulate growth or, at the least, ensure losses have been kept to a minimum. Some have even thrived.
May 17, 2011
Caught, but was it fair and square? I don’t think so! I’m talking about the $30 fine issued for doing a whole five kilometres an hour over the speed limit – the 50 kmph speed limit.
May 10, 2011
What a flop – Secretary’s Day, or more accurately Administrative Professionals Day, came and went virtually unnoticed. Media made a fuss but it seems rewards were not on many business agendas that day.
April 14, 2011
The title from John Gray’s book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, seems to crop up every time there is a debate about the way men and women think.
March 10, 2011
Many years ago the precursor to my career was a short stint working for the ANZ Bank. That was in the days of ‘exchanges’, which I fear, are little known in our modern technological world.
February 8, 2011
When a working woman’s day ends in a job well done there may be a sense of satisfaction. However, the hours between waking with the birds and finally sitting down with a brandy and dry to catch the late news can cut more ways that a...
December 9, 2010
“You can’t always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you... you have to go to them sometimes.” - Winnie the Pooh
November 30, 2010
Tomorrow is December 1 thus, my daughter informs me, there are only 25 days until Christmas. Bah! Humbug!
November 25, 2010
On Tuesday we went to print praying for a miracle. Today we grieve the loss of 29 miners.
November 23, 2010
As I write, New Zealand waits for a miracle. The length and breadth of our small nation’s prayers – whatever form that may take for each person – are being offered for the men trapped in the Pike River mine and their families....
November 18, 2010
So, Prince William is getting married. I don’t have strong feelings one way or the other on the question of Royalty, probably due to laziness on my part and not being bothered to dedicate any energy to the subject, but even I was a little...
