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For those of you who have talked to us about managing talent and culture to drive business value or succession in SME’s, our current initiative in Gilligan Sheppard to introduce an Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) will not come as a surprise. What is surprising, it’s that it is the first to have been introduced […]

I was advised in October last year that I was being considered for an honour, and surprisingly I managed to keep that very quiet. Before they give it to you they ask you to confirm if offered will you accept it, clearly, they don’t want the humiliation of someone turning it down. In my case, […]

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 […]

An accountant dies in a car accident on his 40th birthday and finds himself at the Pearly Gates. A brass band is playing, the angels are singing a beautiful hymn, there is a huge crowd cheering and shouting his name and absolutely everyone wants to shake his hand. Just when he thinks things can’t possibly […]

Bruce is a guest speaker at Waikato University and on this occasion, speaks to a class on “Corporate ethics as opposed to business ethics.” These should be the same but they aren’t. Director’s liability – What is a director? What is the role of a director?… and of course Bruce’s humour and wit comes throughout […]