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If you want to improve sales, you need teams that are motivated to sell. And to be confident, the sales team must believe in the product, the service teams, and customer service. The focus on customer love has many pet names these days – “customer centricity”, or “customer-obsessed” to name a couple. Businesses that aspire […]
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The foxes aren’t in the hen house… for now.
Following on, I do believe that good people leading good businesses with courage to take risk selflessly present the best invest-able propositions available. The trick is sorting out the good guys from the bad guys. That requires judgement. There are bad guys who are dumb and break the law, no solace for dumb investors. There […]
Bruce rejigs $100m property empire
This article was published on February 2nd 2014 in the Sunday Star Times|Business News. By Greg Ninness Sheppard and his business partner Greg Rathbun are ramping their involvement in the property syndication and venture capital markets. So far the pair have put together property syndicates worth around $100 million and in the last 12 months have […]
End of year thoughts. Rising interest rates.
As sure as night follows day boom follows bust. 2013 feels like a transition year between the lethargy of the GFC and its impact and what comes next. The full impact of the GFC in NZ has been masked by government bailout of finance companies, the Canterbury earth quake, and wide spread government works and […]
Are we different or are we mad?
It has been a long time coming, but finally every partner in our firm is a bike rider. And I don’t mean motor bike riders. I guess that makes us the only CA firm in NZ (excluding sole traders) that has all four of its partners riding bikes, three of which ride now to or […]
Debate Success
The ASB Great Debate is THE event for Auckland 2013. An entertaining, exciting, engaging evening during which a Bruce Sheppard led accountants team took on a Mark Hanaghan led legal team to debate “Lawyers contribute more than Accountants”. The event was a successful fundraiser for Starship, Kidney Kids and other Auckland Rotary supported charites. Here’s […]
