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Mid-winter… fog, rain, and cold, but Spring is on the way. Without putting too much of a finer point on it, at the beginning of the year I thought 2022 would be tougher than 2020 and 2021, and the tourism and hospitality misery would spread. Well, it sure has been. Falling asset values are hurting […]
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Upping our game
Business success comes from many sources, but among those are diversity of thought, openness and willingness to challenge, innovate and a determination to do better and deliver outcomes. Most advisory firms are often closed loops that generate group think and are often not subject to external challenge on their performance until it is too late […]
GSTV: Is it a dog or a duck?
Watch Bruce Sheppard have a chat with Debra Houghton about his latest article about diversity in the workplace ‘Is it a dog or a duck?’ https://youtu.be/32Os7zWlHdA
“We’ll overtake Diligent within two months”
Article in The New Zealand Herald – 5th March 2019,by Chris Keall, Business Writer. The sale of NZX-listed Diligent was sold to a US company for a fraction under $1 billion in 2016 is one of the most storied exits in New Zealand software history. Now, a start-up that’s in the same market – boardroom […]
Is a duck that barks, a duck, or a dog?
The current group think is to embrace diversity, in all things. Research suggests that diversity improves economic performance. Gender, race, cultural, religious, (probably a subset of cultural) are all factors and the more diverse an organisation, its people and leadership, the better it performs. The hottest debates around this tend to centre on gender diversity. […]
The Few versus the Many
What is the Responsibility of Government? The purpose of this article is to examine how governments deal with the delicate interface of balancing the needs of the many against damage, and harm to the few. This is where the values and beliefs of a society are demonstrated and refined. But before you can think critically […]
