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Don’t you love a board meeting where the numbers are great? This time, on paper, the numbers looked perfect. Revenue was up. Costs were down. Margins were strong. The board congratulated themselves on another great year and started talking about dividends and the next holiday. Six months later, the business was struggling to keep its […]

This is the fourth article in my series about world trade and the impact of Trump tariffs on New Zealand (NZ) exporters and importers. To see the earlier three articles, please click here. In this article, I cover: Grounded in America If Air NZ had kept to their schedule, I would now be back in […]

There’s a revolution happening in the job market right now. Not the usual economic cycle bullshit, but something fundamental. The core requirement for staying relevant isn’t education or training anymore. It’s creativity, lateral thinking, and imagination, because now we have to outsmart Artificial Intelligence (AI). And to use AI effectively, you have to be really […]

Finding the right adviser is like dating – everyone looks good on paper, but the real test comes when you’re sitting across from them, trying to figure out if they get you. The wrong choice can cost you frustration, missed opportunities, and the nagging feeling that you’re speaking different languages. The challenge is that most […]

Arran continues his series of articles around trade tariffs and how these will impact on New Zealand (NZ) businesses. In this article, he covers: The Asian heartbeat Having just returned from Asia, the only topic discussed at every meeting, dinner, coffee catch up is Trump and tariffs. And I also witnessed first-hand the lines in […]