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Bruce'sThe conversation most family business owners avoid.
Most family business founders put off succession decisions, with their teams and their families. We all believe in our immortality, until we don’t or we are terminated by events beyond our control. This article is not focused on business succession but rather on the thorny issues of family wealth and family business ownership succession. Firstly, […]
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Share options: demystified context and uses
Many share option plans in both the investment markets and employment markets are misunderstood, misused, and don’t deliver for at least one, if not both parties, what they expected. This is the basic jargon: What is an option? The right to buy or sell something at some future point in time. What is a share? […]
The blue deck chair: It’s only words
In an unashamed take from Graham Norton, I intend to write a few stories called ‘the blue deck chair.’ You are free to pull the lever and flip my chair. So please send feedback, flip, or let me walk… In the current world we live in, we’re routinely reminded about what we shouldn’t say and […]
The blue deck chair: Putting a price on loyalty
In an unashamed take from Graham Norton, I intend to write a few stories called ‘the blue deck chair.’ You are free to pull the lever and flip my chair. So please send feedback, flip, or let me walk… Remember when we all jumped on the Flybuys bandwagon about thirty years ago? It seemed like […]
The blue deck chair: A bank with an infinite game mindset?
In an unashamed take from Graham Norton, I intend to write a few stories called ‘the blue deck chair.’ You are free to pull the lever and flip my chair. So please send feedback, flip, or let me walk… Recently, I had a chinwag with a couple of Kiwibank commercial bankers who’d just refinanced an […]
The blue deck chair: Universal respect
In an unashamed take from Graham Norton, I intend to write a few stories called ‘the blue deck chair.’ You are free to pull the lever and flip my chair. So please send feedback, flip, or let me walk… While leaving the ferry one morning, having spent my time chatting to another interesting person who […]