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Business ImprovementThe difference between a leader and a manager
What’s the most important thing to a company’s sustainable success? After considering the standard metrics such as market, the bottom line and a quality product, the majority would likely say it’s leadership. There is a graveyard of companies whose main downfall is the quality of their leaders. Not only the leader at the top but […]
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GS Conference – April 2016
At least every second year we take our team away for a conference and team bonding experience. For 2016 we decided to do this in Samoa (our first every overseas conference!!) at the “Return to Paradise Resort”. Taking our team overseas was not as easy as first thought, ensuring everyone had a valid passport, organising […]
A power of appointment is relationship property… really?
The release of the Supreme Court’s (“the Court”) ruling in the case of Clayton v Clayton (SC 23 2015) on 23rd March 2016 certainly caused a stir around the desks of numerous accounting and legal professionals throughout New Zealand, as word spread that the highest court in the land had determined that a power of […]
The young must question
She is only 18 months old in the company, and was thrilled to be given independent charge of a project. It was a short duration one (6 weeks), but she gets to work with the Business Manager in New Jersey (NJ). It was clearly a great opportunity to prove herself, and also get noticed at […]
Important announcement!
We will be sending tax notices / payment slips for income tax payments by email this year. Please open these attachments to see the amount of tax to pay to the IRD and the date required along with the various ways to pay. Not only is it more efficient, you can receive these wherever you […]
What the hell have we been doing!
2015 is our 30th anniversary of business with the same name, same culture, same leadership from the same premises. We have always been different, but some of our points of difference are now main stream; How often do you see professionals in funeral clobber these days, casual dress is increasingly the norm everywhere. Sure some […]