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Building the pathway to success
At the end of last year, the New Year was a shining light for what 2020 was going to be – both personally and professionally. Call it a New Year resolution or, if you resent that term like me, (mostly because historically achievement rates have not been great), a goal, objective, or it remains nameless […]
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Introduction of the ‘Amazon Tax’
1st December 2019 was the commencement date for our Government’s latest tinkering to the GST legislation – which has commonly been referred to as the ‘Amazon Tax’. Given this nickname due to the New Zealand consumers’ prolific love of internet shopping and the ease at which goods can be acquired nowadays from non-resident suppliers, the […]
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Gilligan Sheppard 25 years ago…
In July I will be celebrating my silver anniversary at Gilligan Sheppard. It seems like a lifetime ago but also feels like it was just yesterday. When I started the offices looked nothing like they do today. The corporate colour was GREEN! When you first walked out of the lifts (yes, still in the Smith […]
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Are you thinking about winning the battle, or the war?
Welcome to 2020. It’s that time of year, great weather, schools are back, traffic has returned, and for most people the run-in towards the end of the Financial Year has begun. We know the election will be September 19, so let the political fun and games begin. During the break most of us should have […]
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2020 election year: Reds in our bed or are we going to get the blues?
What a choice we confront, and how much more inertia will we have while we wait for the poll? Another three years of sleeping with ineffective dreamers, or a change to an almost more depressing prospect of National, with no one with much competence, charisma or leadership capacity left. As in all election years each […]
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